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Updated: August 26, 2024
Bill Johnson's hounds were the first to feel the madness. They left before sun-up, heading for the wooded heights of the Juate, and led him a weary chase.
We're goin' to ride this range by day's works, fellers, and the first bunch of sheep we find we're goin' to scatter 'em like shootin' stars and if any man sees Jasp Swope I'll jest ask him to let me know. Is it a go? All right and I'll tell you how we'll do. "There's only three places that the sheep can get in on us: along the Alamo, over the Juate, or around between the Peaks.
But for once the cowmen of the Four Peaks were equal to the situation. There were no cattle to gather, no day herds to hold, no calves to brand in the pens every man was riding and riding hard. There was wood on every peak for signal fires and the main camp was established on the high ridge of the Juate, looking north and south and west.
That night a fire blazed up from the shoulder of the western mountain and was answered from the Juate. At dawn ten men were in the saddle, riding swiftly, with Jefferson Creede at their head. It was like an open book to the cowmen now, that gathering of the sheep along the Alamo a ruse, a feint to draw them away from the Peaks while the blow was struck from behind.
That runs from here clean to the Four Peaks without a break, and then it swings west in a kind of an ox bow and makes that long ridge up there to the north that we called the Juate. All that high country between our house here and the Peaks everythin' east of that long bluff is Bronco Mesa. That's the upper range the judge asked me to point out to you.
All that day Hardy rode up the Alamo until he stood upon the summit of the Juate and looked over the divide to the north, and still there were no sheep. Not a smoke, not a dust streak, although the chill of Autumn was in the air. In the distant Sierra Blancas the snow was already on the peaks and the frosts lay heavy upon the black mesa of the Mogollons.
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