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Updated: June 5, 2025

So expert was he in the launching of this primitive spear that he easily brought down birds and small game. When he reached his twelfth year, his father bought him a rifle; and he soon became a crack shot. A year later we find him setting off on the autumn hunt after driving the cattle in for the winter-with all the keenness and courage of a man twice his thirteen years.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground