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Andy Adams. The Outlet
The Outlet
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE OUTLET
CHAPTER I. OPENING THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER II. ORGANIZING THE FORCES
CHAPTER III. RECEIVING AT LOS LOBOS
CHAPTER IV. MINGLING WITH THE EXODUS
CHAPTER V. RED RIVER STATION
CHAPTER VI. CAMP SUPPLY
CHAPTER VII. WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK
CHAPTER VIII. EN PASSANT
CHAPTER IX. AT SHERIFF'S CREEK
CHAPTER X. A FAMILY REUNION
CHAPTER XI. ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK
CHAPTER XII. MARSHALING THE FORCES
CHAPTER XIII. JUSTICE IN THE SADDLE
CHAPTER XIV. TURNING THE TABLES
CHAPTER XV. TOLLESTON BUTTS IN
CHAPTER XVI. CROSSING THE NIOBRARA
CHAPTER XVII. WATER-BOUND
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LITTLE MISSOURI
CHAPTER XIX. IN QUARANTINE
CHAPTER XX. ON THE JUST AND THE UNJUST
CHAPTER XXI. FORT BUFORD
CHAPTER XXII. A SOLDIER'S HONOR
CHAPTER XXIII. KANGAROOED
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT
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Andy Adams
Published by Good Press, 2019
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During the time spent in that vicinity, I managed to reach home at night as often as possible. Constantly using fresh horses, I covered a wide circle of country, making one ride down the river into Goliad County of over fifty miles, returning the next day. Within a week I had made up my outfit, including the horse-wrangler and cook. Some of the men were ten years my senior, while only a few were younger, but I knew that these latter had made the trip before and were as reliable as their elders. The wages promised that year were fifty dollars a month, the men to furnish only their own saddles and blankets, and at that figure I picked two pastoral counties, every man bred to the occupation. The trip promised six months' work with return passage, and I urged every one employed to make his appearance at headquarters, in Medina, on or before the 15th of the month. There was no railroad communication through Karnes and Goliad counties at that time, and all the boys were assured that their private horses would have good pasturage at the home ranch while they were away, and I advised them all to come on horseback. By this method they would have a fresh horse awaiting them on their return from the North with which to continue their homeward journey. All the men engaged were unmarried, and taken as a whole, I flattered myself on having secured a crack outfit.
I was in a hurry to get back to the ranch. There had been nothing said about the remudas before leaving, and while we had an abundance of horses, no one knew them better than I did. For that reason I wanted to be present when their allotment was made, for I knew that every foreman would try to get the best mounts, and I did not propose to stand behind the door and take the culls. Many of the horses had not had a saddle on them in eight months, while all of them had run idle during the winter in a large mesquite pasture and were in fine condition with the opening of spring. So bidding my folks farewell, I saddled at noon and took a cross-country course for the ranch, covering the hundred and odd miles in a day and a half. Reaching headquarters late at night, I found that active preparations had been going on during my absence. There were new wagons to rig, harness to oil, and a carpenter was then at work building chuck-boxes for each of the six commissaries. A wholesale house in the city had shipped out a stock of staple supplies, almost large enough to start a store. There were whole coils of new rope of various sizes, from lariats to corral cables, and a sufficient amount of the largest size to make a stack of hobbles as large as a haycock. Four new branding-irons to the wagon, the regulation "Circle Dot," completed the main essentials.
