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The citizens of Rome were given to understand that the railroad shops would be built at the new settlement, and that there was really nothing to prevent it becoming the metropolis of Kansas. Rome became a wilderness. Its citizens stampeded to the new town, and Mr. Rose and Will revised their estimate of their penetration and business sagacity.
When within ten or fifteen miles of the band, through carelessness in taking care of his horses, the Indians turned upon him, stampeded his stock, and, in fact, drove off 200 or 300 head of it, leaving his command on foot. The attack of the hostiles frightened the horses so that they could not be controlled, and they ran towards the Indians.
Once there, in sight of his comrades, his action and expression changed. "Hosses all thar, Jim?" asked Anson, as he picked up, his cards. "Shore. They act awful queer, them hosses," replied. Wilson. "They're afraid of somethin'." "A-huh! Silvertip mebbe," muttered Anson. "Jim, You jest keep watch of them hosses. We'd be done if some tarnal varmint stampeded them."
They fired together, each mortally wounding his animal, and then, rushing in as the herd halted in confusion, and following them as they ran, impeded by numbers, hurry, and panic, they eventually got three more. On another occasion the same two hunters nearly met with a frightful death, being overtaken by a vast herd of stampeded buffaloes.
He turned and went to look for the horses. Then he remembered that the corral fence was burned, that there had been no horses there when he went to let the chickens out. He followed horse-tracks to the edge of the timber and then turned back. The horses had been stampeded by the flames and the shooting. Pete knew that they might be miles from the cabin.
So, when we returned to the ranch, the Captain, after glancing at his watch and remarking that it was rather late to eat, proposed that we try out two other ponies with the polo mallets. This we proceeded to do. After an hour's pleasant exercise on the flat in the "Enclosure," we jogged contentedly back into the corral. Around the corner of the barn sailed a distracted and utterly stampeded hen.
Hammond. "If he is one of those that stampeded the steers, he'll see the inside of the jail. I'd like to catch 'em all." The visitors made their way to bed as soon as they had eaten their late supper; but Rhoda remained with her father when he questioned the Mexican. At first the prisoner refused to give any information about himself or his business near Rose Ranch.
Some thirty riders from the T-Bar-T, the Blue Range, and the Concho swept through the gateway and began shooting at the Ortez vaqueros. Arguilla saw that his own plan had gone glimmering. Ortez had in some way played the traitor. Moreover, they were all on American territory. The herd had stampeded and scattered. In the fading light Arguilla saw one after another of the Ortez vaqueros go down.
You'll excuse me," he went on with an attempt to recover his gravity, "troubling you with their d d fool talk, and you won't say anything to HER about it, but I thought you ought to know it on account of your position among 'em. You don't want to lose their confidence, and you know how easily their skeery faculties are stampeded with an idea!"
"But sometimes the cattle take it into their heads to run away themselves. They get frightened 'stampeded' we call it and they don't care which way they run. Sometimes a prairie fire will make them run and again it may be bad men thieves. The cowboys have to stop the cattle from running away, and they do it by firing revolvers in front of them.
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