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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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horse, BrownJug. Brown Jug was a powerful andwell-built animal, about fourteen-two inheight, and possessed of a vast enthusiasmfor cow-work. As the morning was frosty,he felt good. At the gate of the water corral we sep-arated into two groups. The smaller,under the direction of Jed Parker, wasto drive the mesquite in the wide flats;the rest of us, under command of Homer,the round-up captain, were to sweep thecountry even as far as the base of the foot-hills near Mount Graham. Accordinglywe put our horses to the full gallop. Mile after mile we thundered along at abrisk rate of speed. Sometimes we dodgedin and out among the mesquite bushes,alternately separating and coming togetheragain; sometimes we swept over grassyplains apparently of illimitable extent;sometimes we skipped and hopped andbuck-jumped through and over little gul-lies, barrancas and other sorts of malpais,but always without drawing rein. Themen rode easily with no thought to theway nor care for the footing. The air came
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A mad mother cow is a very demon at times. Drawing by J. N. Marchand. 48 The Outing Magazine back sharp against our faces. The warmblood stirred by the rush flowed morerapidly. We experienced a delightfulglow. Of the morning cold only the verytips of our fingers and the ends of our nosesretained a remnant. Already the sun wasshining low and level across the plains.The shadows of the canons modeled thehitherto flat surfaces of the mountains. After a time we came to some low hillshelmeted with the outcrop of a rock es-carpment. Hitherto they had seemed atermination of Mount Graham, but nowwhen we rode around them we discoveredthem to be separated from the range by agood five miles of sloping plain. Later welooked back and would have sworn thempart of the Dos Cabesas system did wenot know them to be at least eight milesdistant from that rocky rampart. It isalways that way in Arizona. Spaces de-velop of whose existence you had notthe slightest intimation. Hidden in ap-parently plane surfa

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