Saddle and Mocassin

It was nine o'clock on Tuesday. _En route_ from the station I had seen quite enough of Tucson to put my ill-luck in its strongest light. But the bar-tender did not seem to reali...

On this occasion we encountered in his shop a character well known in this part of the world, one "Apache Bill" by name, who was at present residing in Ascension, but had been a...

"Wal, sir, I tell you that that thar Yellowstone Park and them geysers is jest indescribable--that's what they are, sure!" said all the packers, teamsters, and prospectors whom...

We were seated at dusk on the platform outside the Depôt or railway hotel at Deming, enjoying what the Colonel called: "A feast of reason, and a flow of souls." "We" consisted o...

Amongst other trips of a similar nature, which we made about this time, was one into the Cojon Bonita, or Beautiful Box, a district adjoining Animas Valley (only lying on the Me...

With his back against a pine-log, B. sits cleaning his gun, and, for the moment unoccupied, I smoke and watch "Texas" singeing a plucked grouse over the camp-fire. Opposite to h...

"Why not?" observed the Don. "If we _can_ only get well started before night--which doesn't seem likely, at the rate you fellows stand still--we shall very likely manage to get...

She shook her head, and then an after-thought evidently occurring to her, a smile lit up her face, and she shrugged her shoulders indifferently. "Some of the boys down to the La...

If the reader has ever undergone the Ordeal by Baggage at an American railway station in the middle of the night, he will appreciate our feelings when we learnt that we should n...

Quitting the geyser basins, we turned towards the Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone River. Since the new track thither was not yet (1882) finished, and it was impossible for anythi...

"Now, boys! now, boys! now, boys! Who--oop! Up you get, now; up you get! No loafing! ----and -- --! We ain't going to stop here all day! Come! it'll be sun-up directly! I'll be...

"Well, there's Animas Valley, the 'rustlers' home,' where Curly Bill and all those boys used to lie up, when they had been sousing it to the 'enlightened citizen' a little too f...

"Well, I should smile!" rejoined the Colonel admiringly. "He's a dandy in his business, that chap, and his business is fixing things. Huse, if the _señoritas_ in the sister repu...

"It's a great thing to get a range that's isolated, and have your cattle by themselves. One thing is that you want your cattle gentle and in good condition, and when there's hal...

NOTE.--The following sketch has, locally speaking, no place in the present collection. But since it is somewhat similar in its nature to the others, since it describes a day's f...

On the following day we drove into Ascension,--a small place of recent date. When New Mexico was taken over by the Americans, a body of Mexicans emigrated thence and settled her...

There are two things that the settler will find gaining a hold on him after a short residence in Mexico, namely, cigarette smoking and indolence. Very few foreigners successfull...

Twenty-six miles from Corralitos lay Casas Grandes, a place containing between two and three thousand inhabitants, and a fair type of the collection of ruins, partial ruins, pat...

It was still dark when Murray rose and looked outside, letting an eager rush of frosty air into the room that brought me back from heaven knows where I had strayed in dozing. Wi...

At the Gray Place we found Lieut. Huse, who had come up from the supply camp at Lang's; and as he was returning on the following day, and we had decided sooner or later to go th...