Tomahawk, Fighting Horse of the Old West

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Thomas C. Hinkle. Tomahawk, Fighting Horse of the Old West

Tomahawk, Fighting Horse of the Old West

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Thomas C. Hinkle

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Jim waited a little before he replied. Then he whispered, “All right, Dan. Bring me my rifle. I’ll shoot high, if anything. I’d rather miss altogether before I’d kill that old mare.”

Jim Arnold had been one of the very few men who had at three different times successfully “creased” a wild horse. To do this correctly, a man fired at the top of the horse’s neck so that the rifle ball struck the top of the bone, momentarily shocking the horse into unconsciousness, but doing no further harm. Then, when the horse fell, the man, or men in hiding, ran out and hog-tied the horse. But more horses were killed by this method than otherwise, since the man who shot was more likely to aim too low and so break the horse’s neck, and sometimes the man aimed too high and so missed the horse altogether. It required an expert rifle shot to do the work perfectly.

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