tenberg.org Title: Cowmen and Rustlers Author: Edward S. Ellis Release Date: February 27, 2004

[eBook #11337] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COWMEN AND RUSTLERS*** E-text prepared by Dave Morgan, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team COWMEN AND RUSTLERS A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges BY EDWARD S. ELLIS AUTHOR OF "LOG CABIN SERIES," "BOONE AND KENTON SERIES," ETC.

[eBook #11337] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COWMEN AND RUSTLERS*** E-text prepared by Dave Morgan, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team COWMEN AND RUSTLERS A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges BY EDWARD S. ELLIS AUTHOR OF "LOG CABIN SERIES," "BOONE AND KENTON SERIES," ETC.

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The two cowmen engaged by Whitney to assist him in the duty of looking after his property were Budd Hankinson and Grizzly Weber.

A good horsewoman when in Maine, in Wyoming she acquired a skill which compelled the admiration of the cowmen themselves.

The man who sat in the saddle was a perfect equestrian, as are all the cowmen and rustlers of the West.

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Not only that, but it would intensify the bitterness already prevailing through many portions of Wyoming and Montana between the cowmen and rustlers, and postpone and increase the difficulty of the adjustment of the quarrel.

"But how soon do you intendthat is, how soon do the rest of your folks intend to attack the cowmen?" "Wethat is, theyexpected to do so long ago, but there have been all sorts of delays; it will come pretty soon now.

Had Inman and Cadmus been given the opportunity, no doubt they could have made a good argument to prove that, inasmuch as Vesey had passed back and forth several times after his first announcement of a flag of truce, and its acceptance by the besieged cowmen, it was not required by the law of nations that he should proclaim the fact while continuing to act as messenger between the hostiles.

The hard fact confronted the rustlers that one of their principal men was in the power of the cowmen and was held as a hostage for the safety of the detested Monteith Sterry, who had been warned that he would be shot on sight by any rustler who gained the chance.

The main events of the troubles in Wyoming between the cowmen and rustlers are too well remembered to require recital at our hands.

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For twenty-four hours the two cowmen from the distant Clay Creek ranch had owned Coyote Centre.

Even the cowmen he employed, the old hands he and Bess had both known for years, avoided him obviously, stubbornly.

Cowmen take plenty killing.

Walt Coburn (A); 18Mar65; R357697. Last stand of the Gila Pool cowmen.

Cowmen take plenty killing.

And Mrs. Adams spoke of the curious circumstance that the men who put down the lawlessness were unnamed; that all that could be learned of them was that there were ranchers and cowmen who were known by number alone.

It brought Miss Mattie to her feet in an unknown terror; it brought Red from the barn in a full cognizancehe had heard that sound before, when a mad coyote landed in a cabin-full of fairly strong nerved cowmen, and set them screeching like hysterical women before a chance shot ended him.

The cowmen had suffered so severely in time past from this enemy of cattle that the Cherokee Strip Cattle Association had that year offered a bounty of twenty dollars for wolf scalps.

A number of old cowmen were present, and to them was delegated the duty of appointing the officers of the day.

By half past ten, Encampment Butte was deserted with the exception of a few old cowmen, two ladies, wife and sister of a popular cowman, and the captain, who from this point of vantage surveyed the field with a glass.

You and myself as cowmen don't pace in the same class, as you will see, if you will only watch the smoke of our tepee.