Il6 THE ADVENTURES OF 



going west toward the place where I had told 

 Boslen to fix our headquarters. When they 

 struck out I followed them as fast as I could, 

 but could only keep in sight and had a good 

 horse to ride too. Shortly after they started 

 they struck a wagon road called the Doby 

 Wall Trail, and following it passed close to 

 our headquarters, where I wanted to change 

 horses, but I knew that the others were not 

 there yet and I followed on. My plan was to 

 chase them down and capture the whole 

 herd. We might have chased them awhile 

 and then dashed into them and lassoed a few, 

 but I concluded to keep up the chase until 

 they were chased down. As the wild horse 

 gets tired he gets less wild, and by having 

 suitable headquarters so that one can change 

 his horse without giving them much rest, the 

 whole herd can be caught. 



This herd passed near our proposed camp 

 and went on west to the line between Kansas 

 and Colorado, here they turned to the south 

 and kept this course until they struck the south 

 fork of Cimarron River, when they turned 



