WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
T. FISHER UNWIN
LONDONLEIPSIC
Adelphi TerraceInselstrasse 20
1911
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
This book is somewhat in the nature of an autobiography, covering as it does almost the whole of the Author's life. The main portion of the volume is devoted to cattle ranching in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The Author has also included a record of his travels abroad, which he hopes will prove to be not uninteresting; and a chapter devoted to a description of tea planting in India.
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE |
|---|---|
| I. Tea Planting | [13] |
| In Cachar—Apprenticeship—Tea Planting | |
| described—Polo—In Sylhet—Pilgrims at Sacred | |
| Pool—Wild Game—Amusements—Rainfall—Return to | |
| Cachar—Scottpore—Snakes—A Haunted Tree—Hill | |
| Tribes—Selecting a Location—Return to England. | |
| II. Cattle Ranching in Arizona | [42] |
| Leave for United States of America—Iowa—New | |
| Mexico—Real Estate Speculation—Gambling—Billy the | |
| Kid—Start Ranching in Arizona—Description of | |
| Country—Apache and other Indians—Fauna—Branding | |
| Cattle—Ranch Notes—Mexicans—Politics—Summer | |
| Camp—Winter Camp—Fishing and Shooting—Indian Troubles. | |
| III. Cattle Ranching in Arizona (continued) | [81] |
| The Cowboy—Accoutrements and Weapons—Desert | |
| Plants—Politics and | |
| Perjury—Mavericks—Mormons—Bog Riding. | |
| IV. Odds and Ends | [103] |
| Scent and Instinct—Mules—Roping | |
| Contests—Antelopes—The Skunk—Garnets—Leave | |
| Arizona. | |
| V. Ranching in New Mexico | [117] |
| The Scottish Company—My Difficulties and Dangers—Mustang | |
| Hunting—Round-up described—Shipping Cattle—Railroad | |
| Accidents—Close out Scotch Company's Interests. | |
| VI. Odds and Ends | [152] |
| Summer Round-up Notes—Night Guarding—Stampedes—Bronco | |
| Busting—Cattle Branding, etc. | |
| VII. On my own Ranch | [170] |
| Locating—Plans—Prairie Fires and | |
| Guards—Bulls—Trading—Successful | |
| Methods—Loco-weed—Sale of Ranch. | |
| VIII. Odds and Ends | [198] |
| The "Staked Plains"—High Winds—Lobo | |
| Wolves—Branding—Cows—Black Jack—Lightning and | |
| Hail—Classing Cattle—Conventions—"Cutting" versus | |
| Polo—Bull-Fight—Prize-Fights—River and Sea | |
| Fishing—Sharks. | |
| IX. In Amarillo | [226] |
| Purchase of Lots—Building—Boosting a Town. | |
| X. First Tour Abroad | [234] |
| Mexico—Guatemala—Salvador—Panama—Colombia—Venezuela | |
| —Jamaica—Cuba—Fire in Amarillo—Rebuilding. | |
| XI. Second Tour Abroad | [250] |
| Bermudas—Switzerland—Italy—Monte | |
| Carlo—Algiers—Morocco—Spain—Biarritz and Pau. | |
| XII. Third Tour Abroad | [256] |
| Salt Lake | |
| City—Canada—Vancouver—Hawaii—Fiji—Australia—New | |
| Zealand—Tasmania—Summer at Home. | |
| XIII. Fourth Tour Abroad | [270] |
| Yucatan—Honduras—Costa | |
| Rica—Panama—Equador—Peru—Chile—Argentina—Brazil—Teneriffe. | |
| XIV. Fifth Tour Abroad | [287] |
| California—Honolulu—Japan—China—Singapore—Burmah—India—Ceylon—The | |
| End. | |
| Appendix | [317] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| One of the "Boys" (see page [125]) | [Frontispiece] |
| Plucking Tea Leaf | [20] |
| Nagas | [37] |
| Roping a Grizzly | [70] |
| A Shooting Scrape | [76] |
| One of our Men, to show hang of Six-Shooter | [78] |
| 1883 in Arizona, Author and Party | [80] |
| Wound Up, Horse tangled in Rope | [106] |
| Watering a Herd | [116] |
| Herd on Trail, showing Lead Steer | [137] |
| Changing Horses | [153] |
| A Real Bad One | [164] |
| Breaking the Prairie | [230] |
| First Crop—Milo Maize | [230] |
| Llamas as Pack Animals | [279] |
| Drifting Sand Dune, One of Thousands | [279] |
| Peruvian Ruins. Note Dimensions of Stones and Locking System | [281] |
| Palace of Maharana of Udaipur | [310] |