Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan Outlaw and Other Stories
Will C. Barnes
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Tales From The X-Bar Horse Camp
Tales From The X-Bar Horse Camp
_The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories_
By
WILL C. BARNES
Author of "Western Grazing Grounds"
Published by THE BREEDERS' GAZETTE 542 So. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 1920
COPYRIGHT 1920 SANDERS PUBLISHING CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_To My Mother_:
_Who shared with me many of the dangers and hardships of the old days on the ranges of the Southwest, these stories are affectionately dedicated._
_Washington, D. C._ _September 1st, 1919._
Contents
Sunrise on the Desert (poem) xi
The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" 1
Campin' Out 23
Popgun Plays Santa Claus 32
"Just Regulars" 45
The Stampede on the Turkey Track Range 58
The Navajo Turquoise Ring 74
An Arizona Etude 86
Stutterin' Andy 94
The Passing of Bill Jackson 104
The Tenderfoot from Yale 114
"Dummy" 123
The Mummy from the Grand Canon 140
Jumping at Conclusions 149
Lost in the Petrified Forest 163
"Camel Huntin'" 174
The Trinidad Kid 184
"Pablo" 195
The Shooting up of Horse Head 206
Illustrations
The whole herd swam the Pecos in safety 8
Say, Dad, did you ever pack a burro? 23
Gibson managed to get everything in the two Kyacks carried by the mule 36
"Just Regulars" Apache squaw and baby 45
The men on day herd could hold them easily 58
Some prehistoric people had carved queer hieroglyphics on it 71
He was a picture of savage finery 78
Now the Navajos are famous silversmiths 78
The mess wagon was backed up into the shade 86
Andy done built a little log house 97
We had a fire lookout station 115
Out on the range 1200 ewes were grazing 128
He had a Navajo Squaw weaving blankets 144
He knows where there's a bunch of Cliff Dwellings 148
The sails of the wind mill flashed in the sunlight 153
We were camped over in the petrified forest 165
Hawk met a forest ranger leading a pack mule 197
They gave the money to Jackson, the Cross J boss 210
