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miles from where we started them. We 

 passed through a dry country but finally struck 

 a sec lion where there had been plenty of rain 

 and the grasswas good. Thehorses wanted to 

 stay here and began circling about. After 

 fifteen days' hard driving we drove into Lakin 

 with fifty-six head. 



I had a corrall prepared for the purpose, 

 which was made of railroad ties set about 

 eighteen inches in the ground with wings 

 formed the same way leading into it. We got 

 them in the corrall after some difficulty, but 

 yet had a hard job on hand. They all had to 

 be broken or handled. To do this an exper- 

 ienced cow-boy throws a lasso over the head 

 of one and chokes him down, when he is 

 bitted and held by long ropes until he gives up 

 and consents to be led about. It is important 

 that they be handled as soon as they are driven 

 in before they have time to rest up. They 

 should also be handled every day until they 

 become perfectly docile. 



In 1 88 1 I started out from Aubrey on a 

 buffalo hunt, and went north of the Arkansas 



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