Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 3, February 1990 Page: 76
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March, 1868. That night I was tired as this was the longest
ride I had ever made horseback but I was happy and felt as
big as Teddy Roosevelt. That night I slept with Quinn as I
had no bedding. Next morning I was up before it was
daylight and as it was quite cool I sat around the fire while
Bob Jackson (the negro cook) fixed breakfast. Some of the
boys was getting up the horses. Finally we were called to
chuck, as it was called, by old Bob beating on a tin pan. We
stayed at the Drobe Ranch about a week getting the crowd
together.
One day Quinn told me that I could be the horse
herder and he would pay me $6.00 per month and if I made
good, the next spring I could work with hands and drive
cows. The trail was closed at once and I was to have charge
of the horses. There was twelve men in the outfit and each
man had eight horses to his mount. I had four horses to my
mount. Finally the day came for us to leave the ranch and
work all cattle to the coast so we started out. Old Bob the
cook started out in the cook wagon with instructions to go
to Rancho Grande* and get dinner. I was to follow with the
horses.
It only took us about two hours to get to the
ranch. The horses were unhitched from the wagon and
turned loose and I would drive them out to where the bunch
of houses were grazing then I came back to the camp and
Bob and I had quite a time talking about the trip. Bob told
me where they would camp each night on that trip which
would end about the first of July. Bob knew the country as
he had made the round year after year for the past several
years. Finally the boys came in with a bunch of cows and
calves.
After dinner everybody caught fresh horses.
The cows were penned and the calves were branded and all
let loose to ramble where they pleased. Stayed there that
night and next day moved to Kinchlow's [Kincheloe's] Pen
and so on from day to day.
9 That is, the headquarters of the Stafford Ranch.76
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