| Show COWBOY LIFE IN DIXIE I The stockmen of Dixie have a wild and mountainous mountainous' country to rids ride over Some Sonic of or the trails are danger dangerous danger danger- ous and many very narrow escapes escape from death have resulted In years yearn past It may not be amiss to recall a few tew as many of the tho readers of the tho Record will remember th them m and recall to tJ mind the trails valleys mountains mountain and traversed In the tho early days as many of them arc now traversed traversed traversed tra tra- versed although the conditions are arc not so dangerous dangerous' as all they were years years' 1 nu o. o On the tile range where I have ho ridden for about 45 y years ars sometimes In snow three t to four feet teet deep In the tho fall faU of 1900 a crowd of cowboys spent over t VII t I t-eks t r eks in let Pine Pane Valley res rea su tz suing 11 ing poor horses and c cattle Chat h t h had d p l' U tr i d in an ami 1 would have haQ perished c cf of f hunger hunge hal h hi I h they not been brought out by the boys The horses had ad been So BO hungered that they had eaten each others other manes manes' arid and tails The boys boys' had to to tramp trails in the tho snow and do most of ot the tho driving on foot It ll was a sight to sea tin the poor dumb brutes staggering through the snow ta t x r mii lety-mii mints man p a aJ d rail tiL By strenuous work for tor two w weeks eks roo head of horses and cattle of Pine Valley were saved without a a loss or or accident A remarkable achievement t considering the tho d deep ep snow and excessive cold together with tho the shortage of of f feed d. d This fall faU when Welter Walter W If r and Reef Rec Re Batty natty Roland and Maurice were were driving down the Higbee trail some of ot the cattle took the wrong the wrong route and were were crowded crowded off oft a high ledge 2 being killed and 6 5 others J badly injured Two years ago Dee Bee Parker and 1 myself were riding south of Birch Springs around ii ei a high ledge Suddenly Sud S d- d denly Bees Bee's horse slipped and l rolled I off the tho ledge and was wa'S dashed da to I pieces at the b bottom By Dy quick and catlike movements Doe Dee slipped from hU hit I as the ant animal antl l fell over the edge dge of the ledge Dv By an Inch Inh or two he esc sped Ired following th the horse Years ago I wag wai 11 a wild cowand tow cow and a yearling on tho the sand range when they both fell of off th the ledge edge taking n a fell of 2000 2100 feet and ard being eing smashed to to toa a pup pulp Fortunately forme for forme me I was sufficiently far enough away from from tb the the dang danger r point to to o stop 1 my and prevent fol following lowing 10 the Many years ago while the cowboys of this section were were camped i In the cave up the a mammoth a flood camet upon came I. I upon pon them while mobile eating their supper They were surrounded by bywater water rushing madly down the knee d ep to th tits man and see seemingly getting wow worse wo but fr fortunately rt lr before re It reached reachel a greater depth the tl flood od s subsided but 0 J the tho boys boya were were wet to the skin akin and their b bedding dd ng soaked and and food spoiled spoil spoil- ed by the water and mud J t The above aboy Is ts only a few tew of ot the i- i nC n- n of f cowboy life Ite Jn lq Dixie JJ ie each with a thrill to io it many more rould bo be en enumerated that would cause caus one Cino to wo wonder der how the bo boys s have f l t I- I lowed their hazardous work with s soA sot i little loss of animals and with i ro o littie lit lit- tie tle Injury to th themselves I j Cowboy i life c in Dixie is not at all all alf the glamorous thing the Movie Movie- pc pc- pic-i pic ture that I kind nd of ot oti i life e to be jl i But Dut It It is is glorious just the same sume EUme and has hrs a thrill and fascination to It that is hard to resist W fc DAVID |
