CHAPTER VII 



OVER THE MOGOLLON MESA 



LOGAN JAQUES, the young sheep 

 ranchman, who had several herds of 

 sheep pasturing in what is known as 

 Grasshopper Valley, some eighteen or twenty 

 miles from Coleman's ranch on the Cibicue, 

 invited us to spend a night at one of his camps 

 as we passed en route to the old Verde trail. 

 His herds were in charge of Mexican shep- 

 herds, for in Arizona and New Mexico only 

 Mexicans are employed in the work of herding 

 sheep, though farther north, in Idaho, Wyo- 

 ming, and throughout the Northwest generally, 

 a Mexican shepherd is a rarity. 



In Arizona and New Mexico the shepherds 

 live in tents and transport their camp equip- 

 ment by pack train, using burros for pack ani- 

 mals and the native cayuse for the saddle, 



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