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FIFTY THOUSAND MUSTANGS
like a house or any kind of settlement for four hundred miles
and then only a few cow camps on the Pecos River in New
Mexico, and then nothing for two hundred miles west of the
Pecos, except a few Mexican settlements on the Rio Grande
-just buffalo and his wild red herder, the Comanche Indian,
over the whole Llano Estacado and far out on both sides of it.
Before leaving Fort Worth I had bought a good cow horse.
I paid fifty dollars for him, which was a good price for a
horse at that time. I should have said I paid fifty dollars in
gold. At that time there were three kinds of money, all of
different values: gold, silver, and greenbacks. I rode this horse
to Fort Griffin and then out to this camp. There was nothing
to do but hunt a little, poison a few wolves and coyotes-and
wait for a hide market and for McKenzie to get the Indians
to their reservation.
There was another ex-cowpuncher with the outfit named
Louis Keys. He had been up the trail several times to Kansas
and, like myself, wanted to get on the buffalo range. He also
had a good cow horse.
Deep Point Creek heads southwest of the Double Moun-
tain and runs in a northeast direction into the Double Moun-
tain Fork of the Brazos. It has deep, steep banks on both
sides, flanked by a belt of elm timber on both sides. About
a mile below our camp a band of mustangs ranged, sometimes
on the south side, and again on the north. If they were on
the south side and anything started them, they ran to a certain
crossing-an old buffalo trail worn deep in the banks. Buffa-
loes had crossed here, no doubt, for countless ages on their
migrations north and south. If these mustangs were north and
ran south, they used another crossing. I might say there were
not many mustangs in that part of Texas---nothing like the
number above the Cap Rock, on the plains proper.81
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964; Boatright, Mody C. & Ransom, Harry H. Mustangs and Cow Horses, book, 1940; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67653/m1/93/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.