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The ranche was owned by a Scotsman, and his "weather-board" house was new and comfortable, but we found ourselves at the mercy of the most conservative of Chinese cooks, whom no blandishments could induce to give us at our meals any of the duck or snipe we shot, but who stuck with unwearying persistency to boiled pork and beans.
"He says that if he went to the fort he would have to come back to Holmes's ranche, anyway he is going to make his home there for a while, for he and Holmes were boys together and so he might just as well go there in the first place, and save time and travelling. He sent his best wishes to everybody, and hopes we will catch all the scoundrels who wiped out the squatter."
Still later, you, Cook and Moriarity took refuge at Swanson's ranche in the Indian Territory, and after attempting to rob your host, which attempt was frustrated by my men, you came, in some roundabout way, to Chicago, where you put up at the Commercial Hotel, disguised by a false mustache. Every evening you went to West Lake street, and last night you were arrested. Now, Mr.
I had no money; I was hungry and sleepy, utterly discouraged; and, like you, I sought to end my troubles by enlisting. I see now that I made a great mistake, but I am going to serve faithfully during my term of enlistment, if I live. Is George's ranche far from here?" "I don't know, for I am not much acquainted with the country east of here, never having scouted in that direction.
Wait until they get over their fright, and then you can try your hands at guarding them during the night." On the afternoon of the fifth day Bob noticed that George's field-glass was often brought into requisition both by himself and Mr. Wentworth, and on riding forward to inquire the cause of it, he was informed that they were looking for Mr. Taylor's ranche. "And who is Mr.
Kit Carson is sent Overland as Bearer of Dispatches to Washington The Preparation and the Start The Journey Privations and Sufferings Meeting with General Kearney The General takes Carson as his Guide and sends on the Dispatches by Fitzpatrick The March Arrival at Warner's Ranche Mexicans on the Road Preparations for a Battle The Battle Disastrous Consequences Kit Carson and Lieutenant Beale offer to run the lines of the Mexican Sentinels and carry Information to San Diego of Kearney's critical position The Daring Undertaking The Sufferings they encountered Their Arrival Reinforcements sent out Lieutenant Beale is Delirious from the Privations he has undergone Gen.
Elliott, his wife and all the other of my new-found friends good-bye, I started on my return to Beckwith's ranche, perfectly willing to resign my high- life surroundings to go back to the open and congenial fields of nature and an indescribable freedom. I found Beckwith suffering severely from an old arrow wound that he had received in a fight with the Utes near Fort Hall in 1848.
"Springer can have the one I was goin' to use." "Zeke, sit down and behave yourself," exclaimed George. "No, I won't. I ain't agoin' to eat salt with a man what tried to burn this ranche over your dead father's head, an' you a little babby at the time, without no power to help yourself. I don't know what this family is comin' to, anyhow."
After conversing a while upon the various exciting incidents that had transpired while Gus was Ned Ackerman's guest at George's ranche, the latter said, "I never expected to meet you again, and I would rather not have met you at all than see you in this scrape." "Well, it can't be helped now," answered Gus, with a weak unsuccessful attempt to appear defiant.
The folks tells Bill they reckons Jim is over to Virginny City. "It's a month later, an' Bill is romancin' along on one of them Nevada mountain-meadow trails, when he happens upon a low, squatty dugout, the same bein' a camp rather than a house, an' belongs with a hay ranche.
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