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Updated: June 4, 2025
At the saddle bows of some of the hung raw-hide lariats that the owners unwound as they sped forward. Tom Reade, with the pursuer slowly, but steadily gaining upon him, had discovered the identity of the man who seemed bent on his destruction. As Hazelton drew nearer Tom waved his left hand frantically at his chum. "Turn about, Harry! Ride back like the wind!" shouted Tom.
Before flinging them the rope has been passed through the iron ring with which all lariats are provided, thus furnishing a ready-made running noose. "Who's to haul up?" asks the Ranger Captain; adding, "Boys! 'Taint a nice business, I know; but I suppose there's some of you willing to undertake it." Some of them! Forty voices, nearly all present, are heard crying out with one accord
Some of them ran to get pitchforks, while others secured lariats from their saddles and hurried back to the scene of battle. The bay horse was now getting much the worst of it, and it became evident that if the two infuriated animals were not separated soon the later arrival would either be killed or else so badly hurt that he would have to be shot eventually.
I told him I did and he got one and tied it to the end of the coach tongue, then put two lariats on the tongues of each coach, leaving a string about sixty feet long much to the wonderment of the passengers motioned for me to mount the seat and take up my whip.
"By our pullin' on the lariats an' thar takin' advantage o' ev'ry footgrip, they might do it. Leastways we kin try it." "It's a desperate chance," said the hunter, "but I think with you, Tom, that it's worth trying. Now, boys, make fast the packs to the last strap, and up we go."
In the soil of the plains and the dry hillsides you will find an amazingly large solid bulb, thickly enwrapped in a coat of brown fiber, the long threads of which can be braided, their amazing strength making them suitable for bow strings, lariats, or rope of any kind that must needs be improvised for use at the moment. The bulbs themselves have many uses.
Two led horses, carrying heavy packs, were behind the animal he rode, and attaching the lariats to their bits he took one end and led the way down the most perilous and picturesque trail along the shelf running around the jutting point of rocks. When he drew near the narrowest point, he took off the saddle and packs, and one at a time led the horses downward and around the hazardous rocks.
While cutting a rope from one man's neck for it was in a hard knot the owner, a government teamster standing by waiting, shouted angrily, at the same time stepping forward: "Hello there! don't cut that rope; I won't have anything to tie my mules with." "Oh! you darned fool," interposed a mountaineer, "the dead men's ghosts will be after you if you use them lariats wagh!
Then, when he found that his pursuers still continued to press in upon him, he took alarm, and, throwing up his head, with a wild, defiant snort he made a bolt for the open. Instantly two lariats whirled through the air towards the crested neck. One missed its mark, but the other fell, true as a gun-shot over the small, thoroughbred head. It was Jacky's rope which had found its mark.
They did not trouble to haul up the canoes, but fastened them by the head-ropes, which were made from lariats, to trees on the shore. Daylight was beginning to fade as they lighted the fire. No time was lost before mixing the dough, and it was in readiness by the time that there were sufficient glowing embers to stand the pot in. The kettle was filled and hung on a tripod over the fire.
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