CONTENTS

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[My Dreams of a Sheep Ranch][9]
[Sheep Raising][10]
[Herding Sheep][12]
[Something about Texas][14]
[Land Grants][15]
[The "Texas Fever"][16]
[Why I Wanted to Go into Texas][18]
[Hunting in Texas][19]
[Father Goes to Spy Out the Land][21]
[Our Plantation in Mississippi][23]
[Father Comes Home][24]
[The Bigness of Texas][25]
[Where We Were Going][26]
[What I Hoped to Do][28]
[Cattle Driving][29]
[How We Set Out][31]
[A Laborious Journey][32]
[Comanche Indians][35]
[Father Comes to My Rescue][36]
[The Arrival at Fort Towson][39]
[Preparing for a Storm][40]
[A Dry "Norther"][42]
[Two Kinds of "Northers"][43]
[How Turkeys Kill Rattlesnakes][46]
[Deer and Rattlesnakes][47]
[Making a Corral of Wagons][49]
[On the Trail Once More][51]
[Mesquite][52]
[A Texas Sheep Ranch][54]
[The Profits from Sheep Raising][55]
[Father's Land Claim][56]
[Spanish Measurements][57]
[The Chaparral Cock][57]
[Our First Night on the Trinity][59]
[Standing Guard][60]
[A Turkey Buzzard][62]
[Plans for Building a House][64]
[The Cook Shanty][66]
[A Storm of Rain][68]
[A Day of Discomfort][69]
[Thinking of the Old Home][70]
[Waiting for the Sun][72]
[Too Much Water][74]
[The Stream Rising][76]
[Trying to Save the Stock][77]
[The Animals Stampeded][79]
[Saving Our Own Lives][81]
[A Raging Torrent][83]
[A Time of Disaster][84]
[The Flood Subsiding][86]
[A Jack Rabbit][88]
[Repairing Damages][90]
[Rounding up the Live Stock][91]
[The First Meal after the Flood][93]
[Waiting for Father][94]
[Recovering Our Goods][97]
[Setting to Work in Good Earnest][98]
[Sawing Out Lumber][100]
[Laboring in the Saw Pit][102]
[Wild Cattle][104]
[A Disagreeable Intruder][105]
[Odd Hunting][107]
[A Supply of Fresh Meat][109]
["Jerking" Beef][111]
[Searching for the Cattle Again][113]
[Our New Home][114]
[Planting, and Building Corrals][115]
[Bar-O Ranch][117]
[An Odd Cart][118]
[The Visitors][120]
[Zeba's Curiosity][121]
[Possible Treachery][123]
[Suspicious Behavior][123]
[Gyp's Fight with a Cougar][125]
[In a Dangerous Position][127]
[Hunting Wild Hogs][129]
[Treed by Peccaries][130]
[Gyp's Obedience][133]
[My Carelessness][135]
[Vicious Little Animals][137]
[Father Comes to the Rescue][138]
[The Increase in My Flock][141]
[Unrest of the Indians][143]
[Texas Joins the Union][144]
[War with Mexico][147]
[Selling Wool][149]
[Peace on the Trinity][151]
[My Dream Fulfilled][152]

[PHILIP OF TEXAS]

MY DREAMS OF A SHEEP RANCH