were not.

I knew the life history of nearly every rancher and oowpuncher '
in our part of the cou.ntry—--"our part" embracing an area.  e&m
from Calgary to Banff ...—-a. matter of eighty miles alone over the highway.

But distances meant nothing to us. A neightbor was the rancher twenty or thirty

miles off. I thongmmnothing-lo£..going on horse to "call fipob a. n'ei‘g'hhb'r. /Sxmexx

azxosnzsex 0,i’_“g9}_1g:ae,---‘I“‘sometimes ‘ you made a. whole day's trip‘of~gf§'{vsf:},4.rf‘g,; ,/‘*1

spending the night‘with the::q,,_.,,_....=—auzzt/}«}”"‘.t was nothing. uubmxxx we all
had. automobiles moreover, and we were hack and forth at each others places.
M1nt::n£>:.th:~: There were a. number of 'Dld-timers"-—fine people who had
come in in pioneer days, and I never tired hearing their stories of when
they trekked across from this or that re part of the world and slept on the
trail in all kinds of weather, and of the first slacks erected. 8:0.
fiztnmmxx &fiumfl 
There were a spinkling of Americans among the ranchers in the foothills --.-
adventurous fellows who had drifted somehow orhewr across» therline, and theta ,1
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.»  .‘:’...¢~%‘‘''‘''¢‘‘‘4.f! * . ‘ 4 ‘'°“ . .. ‘*'*"—”i-~-v.-flu’.
were any number of English people, rerfching, as aggsort of sport——-or rather

  ed "mwnc}i*!;g§' i t they were soon in the game as

we were in dead earnest. For we had to be, if we wished to hold on to the money



 

we had invested. he had 8. duke's son. riding the range for us. Down the
road a little way the son of a. peer kept in the summer a. little road house.
Another duke's grandson ind. a. polo and dude ranch adjoining ours. Two

Italian princes (of the Royal family) had a great horse ranch, and one of them
qas the manager of it. ( ‘$

Entry One reali zed the adventurous quality of the ranchers

at, say, some big dance or gymkhanna, when each ones history was reteiled.

Rhea:  Among those present were people frcm the four corners of

the earth, whose birth and enviromnent had previously been as far apart as the anti-
ponies . T1n:Csu111:uf3:::1:irx.sr.::1nr:d:mra3>:x11hhingj::e:?;hez'a;mt:th.:i:ha;~:Jnm1m:th.x

I knew nearly every Indian upon the Reserve-—..a.nd there were sevesal

hundreds of them. If I c1icl'nt know them personally i lx‘.‘.".8\‘.’ them by sight at