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<6“,   our money w an tied. up in cattle and 1a.nd.. we eouldmt "pull
up stakes" and quit, even 11‘ my husband. weuld have been willing to do so.

He was not. He loved the "game".
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heels all our wounds. '1'.1nII minutes as to any qondition and environ...
ment. where came a time, indeed when I even assured nwser.-t that I

1_.eved the life. It was fine, big! Kile were toethiu ramhere, lords of e.

a domain of thousands at stores. — we gave employment to many men and those men
were our friends.

I eametelmow tfi 3.11 theramhersandcowpnneherainourpart

or the country. "am: part" embracing an area. that ran ‘ha I ample at

hmdx-ed anon. Distance: meant nothing to am. We 311 Ind‘ automobiles
and horses, smfi. we were back and forth to each other: 315393. the old-
Timere were a never falling source at delight to me. I loved them. last
or the people in our part of the woruma the spirit oi.’ aaveneumra. may had
done from the four corners of the earth. Azneriev-In had. drifted. in (run
every State in the ‘anion. There was one part pf the country called. Yankee
Valley. and everyone there was from the U34. The English were good spot
sports and the-best or ranahn-5. we 19.6. a. d.1:J:e'e eon riding the range for us.
A peer’: grandson kept a little road house, where we lad Friday dnnoeso

motmé em-s grandson use a pole and made much adjoining  we Italian
princes had a. great ‘horse much and they came to call on us in eve:-also

I knew meat of the Indians well enolgh to 08.11 them by name.

There were bebout 600 at than on the Indian Reeerve that was on one side of
our ranch. when one gave a Job to an Indian, he moved on to the place the

next day with all of his 2-enatlvee and connections from far and near, beuaee

"1' mm°1‘°"1° 1301908 and does. We would be awaacenaa the :o11mng nfirnigg