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Updated: June 18, 2025
Gregorio Falcon, Mexican vaquero and best thrower of the rope on the Cibolo, pushed his heavy, silver-embroidered straw sombrero back upon his thicket of jet black curls, and scraped the bottoms of his pockets for a few crumbs of the precious weed. "Ah, Don Samuel," he said, reproachfully, but with his touch of Castilian manners, "escuse me.
When Williams did introduce him, they were rather silent, asking after Collie in monosyllables. They seemed strangely reticent. Both Williams and Overland felt an inexplicable tensity in the situation. Miguel, the young Mexican vaquero, broke silence. "How long you call it to this Gophertown place, I think?" "Thirty miles," said Overland. "Walkin' backwards like Miguel's talk," said Billy Dime.
Pearly mists rise from the bay. Far to the northeast Mount Diablo uplifts its peaked summit. From the western ridges balsamic odors of redwoods float lightly. Down by the marshes countless snipe, duck, geese, and curlew tempt the absent sportsman. The traveller easily overtakes his escort. They have been trying all the arts of the vaquero.
"Stand back, Bucky O'Connor or, by God, I'll drill you!" The vaquero smiled. "Right guess, Black MacQueen. I arrest you in the name of the law." Black's revolver spat flame twice before the ranger's gun got into action, but the swaying of the train caused him to stagger as he rose to his feet.
To say that Sundown was proud of his unaccustomed regalia from the crown of his lofty Stetson to the soles of his high-heeled riding-boots, would be putting it mildly. To say that he was especially useful in his new calling as vaquero would not be to put it so mildly.
Teamsters withheld their oaths and their uplifted whips as the two girls passed by; weary miners, toiling in ditches, looked up with a pleasure that was half reminiscent of their past; younger skylarkers stopped in their horse-play with half smiling, half apologetic faces; more ambitious riders on the highway urged their horses to greater speed under the girls' inspiring eyes, and "Vaquero Billy," charging them, full tilt, brought up his mustang on its haunches and rigid forelegs, with a sweeping bow of his sombrero, within a foot of their artfully simulated terror!
Yet, notwithstanding this lack of noble ambition, Concha seemed to have absorbed the "devotion" of the boys, big and little, and as the master presently discovered even that of many of the adult population. There were always loungers on the bridle path at the opening and closing of school, and the vaquero, who now always accompanied her, became an object of envy.
It was what his companion told him of a singular habit which it had that of repeating, at the end of every hour during the night, its melancholy and monotonous note. The Indians call this bird the "cock of the Inca," and they moreover regard it with a sort of superstitious reverence. Having placed his snares, the vaquero set out to return with his youthful companion.
They looked down upon the smoke of a manufactory chimney, upon strange heaps of material and curious engines scattered along the sands, with here and there moving specks of human figures. In a little bay a schooner swung at her cables. The vaquero crossed himself in stupefied alarm.
The mode of capturing them is by snares made of horse-hair, which are set in front of their caves just as we snare rabbits in a warren, except that for the rabbits we make use of light elastic wire, instead of the horse-hair. Leon was delighted with the excursion, as the vaquero showed him how to set the snares, and told him a great many curious stories of Puna life and habits.
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