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Updated: May 13, 2025
Leaving for a moment the personal characteristics of the much-maligned cowboy, who has been described as everything from a stage-robber to a cutthroat, we may with profit devote a little space to a consideration of his attire as it was, and as it is. In the picture of a cowboy in this work the modern dress is shown very accurately.
Those were queer days, and if you judge things from our twentieth-century point of view you will probably find yourself bewildered. John Ringo was known to be a cattle-rustler, stage-robber, and according to the law a murderer. And Breckenbridge, whose duty it was to enforce the statutes, set out for the county seat alone on the strength of that promise.
If the boy's nabbed, an' you'll agree to sorter, as the feller says, tangle the woof o' memory an' refuse to swear that you recognize the said defendant as the hereinbefore mentioned stage-robber, I'll see that you get your fifteen hundred back. This is his first serious job, Mr. Carey, an' I wish you'd go easy on him. He ain't really bad."
The next morning he awakened to find that several of the company had departed. No one made any comment on that fact and there was no mention of the stolen horse. But when the deputy had downed his last cup of coffee Frank McLowery took him outside and showed him the animal tethered to a hitching-rack. "Much obliged, Frank," said Breckenbridge. The stage-robber gave him a sour grin.
They heard these things in the long adobe dance-halls while rouge-bedizened women went whirling by in the arms of bold-eyed partners wearing revolvers on their hips. From stage-robber, stock-rustler, horse-thief, and the cold-faced two-gun man who sold his deadly talents to the highest bidder, the stories came to them.
Hither the stage-robber came, riding hard when the list of his crimes had grown too long. The murderer, the rustler, and the outlaw spurred their ponies on eastward when the valley of the San Pedro was too hot for them and took refuge here among their kind.
"Say, Zip, he'll kill you," said the gambler, after a pause. "She's my wife. She's mine," retorted Scipio intensely. "An' I'll shoot him dead if he refuses to hand her over." "Say," the gambler went on, ignoring the man's protest the idea of Scipio shooting a man like James was too ludicrous "you're up agin a bad proposition, sure. James has stole your wife. He's stole more. He's a stage-robber."
Here's a feller robs you in the meanest way a man ken be robbed, an' you're yearnin' to hand him more a low-down cur of a stage-robber, a cattle-thief, the lowest down bum ever created an' you'd hand over this pore innercent little kiddie to him. Was there ever sech a white-livered sucker?
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