72 SPORTING ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST. 



in her body caused her to stop and face about to deliver 

 battle to her foes. Her eyes fairly gleamed with fury on 

 seeing the men and horses galloping about her ; and when- 

 ever a cavalier came any way near her she charged him 

 boldly, but only to receive a shot from him or some other 

 person near by. Bullets rained around her from rifle and 

 revolver; but they seemed to have no other effect on her 

 than to rouse her into fury and cause her to charge when- 

 ever she had the chance. 



A man named Diego Gonzales, becoming incensed at the 

 inefficacy of the fire, or her magical vitality, rode close up 

 to her, as his mustang was well trained, and delivered his 

 fire within ten yards of her face ; but he had scarcely dis- 

 charged his rifle before she bounded toward him ; and be- 

 fore he could wheel and get away, she had thrown horse 

 and rider to the ground by one desperate blow. The fall- 

 en man drew his revolver, so as to sell his life as dearly 

 as possible; but before he could use it half a dozen men 

 jumped off their terrified mustangs and ran toward her, 

 and, opening fire on the huge beast, they killed her ere 

 she could transfer her attentions from the steed to the 

 rider. When these were examined, we found that the 

 horse was so severely injured that he could not live, while 

 the rider escaped with only a severe contusion of the un- 

 der side and leg, and the crushing of the ankle-bone. To 

 rid the poor horse of his misery, as his neck and face were 

 horribly cut, he was shot, and Gonzales was taken on a 

 rude litter to camp by four men. The remainder of the 

 party started out after the cubs, and, with the aid of the 

 dogs, we soon found them concealed in a dense growth of 

 manzanita. The party separated on finding them, in order 

 that each might capture one, but, at my request, it was 

 decided not to shoot them there, but to drive them out 

 and capture them alive if possible. When the proposition 

 was agreed to, four of us went after one, and the rest after 

 the other. Driving our cub into open ground, the lariats 

 were soon whirling about its head, and in less than five 

 minutes we had it bound legs and head, so that it could 



