CHAPTER IV 



FIRST PROFESSIONAL WORK 



After a brief stay at home, having made all 

 preparation, purchasing and packing the nec- 

 essary material for procuring the proposed col- 

 lections, I started on my western trip. 



Long before this, my brother, having spent a 

 year at Cornell, concluded that he would make 

 farming, and especially cattle-breeding and rais- 

 ing, his future pursuit. Now he was located in 

 a small town in southwestern Kansas, called 

 Mound City, gathering a band of cattle, which he 

 proposed to drive across the plains to a point in 

 the vicinity of Colorado Springs, there to estab- 

 lish the nucleus of a cattle ranch. 



Warrensburg, where the normal school of 

 which I have spoken was situated, is in Johnson 

 County in western Missouri, and it was not a 

 long journey beyond to the place where my 

 brother was living at this time. Starting a few 

 days earlier than had been my original intention, 

 I went direct to Kansas City and thence south- 

 ward to Mound City in the state of Kansas to 

 pass a short time with my brother. I have 



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