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with the rifle, both for sport and as a means of live- 

 lihood. Varied though their occupations had been, 

 almost all had, at one time or another, herded cattle 

 and hunted big game. They were hardened to life 

 in the open, and to shifting for themselves under 

 adverse circumstances. They were used, for all 

 their lawless freedom, to the rough discipline of the 

 round-up and the mining company. Some of them 

 came from the small frontier towns ; but most were 

 from the wilderness, having left their lonely hunt- 

 ers' cabins and shifting cow-camps to seek new and 

 more stirring adventures beyond the sea. 



They had their natural leaders the men who had 

 shown they could master other men, and could more 

 than hold their own in the eager driving life of the 

 new settlements. 



The Captains and Lieutenants were sometimes 

 men who had campaigned in the regular army 

 against Apache, Ute, and Cheyenne, and who, on 

 completing their term of service, had shown their 

 energy by settling in the new communities and 

 growing up to be men of mark. In other cases they 

 were sheriffs, marshals, deputy-sheriffs, and deputy- 

 marshals men who had fought Indians, and still 

 more often had waged relentless war upon the bands 

 of white desperadoes. There was Bucky O'Neill, 

 of Arizona, Captain of Troop A, the Mayor of Pres- 

 cott, a famous sheriff throughout the West for his 



