Told in the Firelight 



of the Shorthorn, the white face of the 

 Hereford and the great wide-spreading 

 up-turned horns of the old-time Texan. 

 Obviously she embodied within herself 

 the whole story of the western cattle 

 trade; the passing of the red. men and 

 the buffalo, the first great invasion of 

 the wilderness by the southern Long- 

 horns, the frightful losses suffered in 

 the early days and the subsequent 

 reoccupation of the ranges under better 

 control and management. All this 

 and more was now recalled by the 

 smouldering embers of our dying camp 

 fire in the mountains, and some lines * 

 I once had written now came clearly 

 back: 



* Publisher's Note. — Some years ago Mr. Sanders 

 prepared at the solicitation of leading western ranchmen 

 and cattle breeders a volume of about 1,000 pages which 

 he called "The Story of the Herefords." This bit of verse 

 was added as an appendix to that work, which is highly 

 technical in its character and naturally makes little appeal 

 to the general reader not interested in the subject matter. 

 Many of the author's friends have asked that "The 

 Coming of the Cattle" therefore be printed now in some 

 shape where it would be generally available. Hence its 

 incorporation in this sketch. 



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