Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan Outlaw and Other Stories

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by Will C. Barnes




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  Tales From The X-Bar Horse Camp

  Tales From The X-Bar Horse Camp

  _The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories_

  By

  WILL C. BARNES

  Author of "Western Grazing Grounds"

 

  Published by THE BREEDERS' GAZETTE 542 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 1920

  COPYRIGHT 1920 SANDERS PUBLISHING CO.

  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

  _To My Mother_:

  _Who shared with me many of the dangers and hardships of the old days on the ranges of the Southwest, these stories are affectionately dedicated._

  _Washington, D. C._ _September 1st, 1919._

  Contents

  Sunrise on the Desert (poem) xi

  The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" 1

  Campin' Out 23

  Popgun Plays Santa Claus 32

  "Just Regulars" 45

  The Stampede on the Turkey Track Range 58

  The Navajo Turquoise Ring 74

  An Arizona Etude 86

  Stutterin' Andy 94

  The Passing of Bill Jackson 104

  The Tenderfoot from Yale 114

  "Dummy" 123

  The Mummy from the Grand Canon 140

  Jumping at Conclusions 149

  Lost in the Petrified Forest 163

  "Camel Huntin'" 174

  The Trinidad Kid 184

  "Pablo" 195

  The Shooting up of Horse Head 206

  Illustrations

  The whole herd swam the Pecos in safety 8

  Say, Dad, did you ever pack a burro? 23

  Gibson managed to get everything in the two Kyacks carried by the mule 36

  "Just Regulars" Apache squaw and baby 45

  The men on day herd could hold them easily 58

  Some prehistoric people had carved queer hieroglyphics on it 71

  He was a picture of savage finery 78

  Now the Navajos are famous silversmiths 78

  The mess wagon was backed up into the shade 86

  Andy done built a little log house 97

  We had a fire lookout station 115

  Out on the range 1200 ewes were grazing 128

  He had a Navajo Squaw weaving blankets 144

  He knows where there's a bunch of Cliff Dwellings 148

  The sails of the wind mill flashed in the sunlight 153

  We were camped over in the petrified forest 165

  Hawk met a forest ranger leading a pack mule 197

  They gave the money to Jackson, the Cross J boss 210

 

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