CHAPTER IV 



THE TRAIL 



&quot; 1 &amp;gt;RANK, what ll we do about horses? &quot; asked 



|H Jones. &quot; Jim ll want the bay, and of course 

 -*- you ll want to ride Spot. The rest of our 

 nags will only do to pack the outfit. 1 



&quot; I ve been thinkin ,&quot; replied the foreman. &quot; You 

 sure will need good mounts. Now it happens that 

 a friend of mine is just at this time at House Rock 

 Valley, an outlyin post of one of the big Utah 

 ranches. He is gettin in the horses off the range, 

 an he has some crackin good ones. Let s ooze over 

 there it s only thirty miles an get some horses 

 from him.&quot; 



We were all eager to act upon Frank s suggestion. 

 So plans were made for the three of us to ride over 

 and select our mounts. Frank and Jim would follow 

 with the pack train, and if all went well, on the 

 following evening we would camp under the shadow 

 of Buckskin. 



Early next morning we were on our way. I tried 

 to find a soft place on Old Baldy, one of Frank s 

 pack horses. He was a horse that would not have 



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