Cinchfoot and Blaze Face, under different names, are based on real characters. The remarkable friendship between them was a reality. Horsemen of the West, including Lloyd Hardin and John Campbell, have more than once told me of the two horses and their unusual friendship for each other. Nor was this the only incident in the West when a gelding befriended a small colt and a friendship sprang up between the two that lasted throughout life. When Cinchfoot was last heard of he was twenty-three years old, living on a ranch in Montana. It was said by those who saw him that he was in excellent health and as beautiful as ever. Old Blaze Face lived to be twenty-six years of age before he crossed the Great Divide. – T.C.H.
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Thomas C. Hinkle. Cinchfoot
CINCHFOOT
Author’s Note
I: Cinchfoot
II: Blaze Face
III: A Waiting Game
IV: Clem Brown
V: Looking Toward the West
VI: Felipe and Carlos
VII: Treachery at the Spring
VIII: Bucking Horses
IX: The Hiding Man
X: Cinchfoot Is Down
XI: The Picket Pin
XII: The Nicker of a Horse
XIII: In the Canyon
XIV: Fighting Gray Wolves
XV: A Man and His Horse
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THE STORY OF A RANGE HORSE
By Thomas C. Hinkle
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But just at this time some help was seen not far off. This was three cowboys who had been caught in the storm and who now rode up on a ridge a little to the west of where Clem and Sam happened to be. When the three cowboys looked out and saw the herd of range horses, and at the same time Clem and Sam, they understood everything. But Blaze Face knew what to do, for he had now seen all the cowboys. With a loud snort Blaze Face started to run. The other horses followed him. Blaze Face kept well ahead of all the horses, but Cinchfoot kept right behind him and sometimes he was neck and neck with him. Probably Cinchfoot thought he would get away. Certainly he had, as the cowboys said, “uncorked an awful lot of speed, him being plumb determined to travel to new country.” But Cinchfoot had not yet learned the ways of cowboys. He did not know that no matter how he figured things out, they had a way of doing a better job of figuring than he did. And another thing Cinchfoot did not know was that while all five of the cowboys began to crowd in on each side and behind, they were all looking at him and admiring him. Cinchfoot heard loud yells coming from these humans but he did not know they were saying:
