Recollections of Elizabeth Benton Frémont, daughter of the pathfinder General John CFrémont and Jessie Benton Frémont, his wife . ous exercise,Becky stopped to breathe. I seized the op-portunity and jumped off; she had hunchedthe saddle onto her neck. She would notallow a crupper and I was two miles fromhome and I could not get the saddle on heragain for she was a mistress in the art ofinflation when cinching was attempted. While in this predicament two teams ap-proached, driven by men with whom ourfamily did not pass the time of day. Theywere bringing the wagon loads of ore tothe mill from th
Recollections of Elizabeth Benton Frémont, daughter of the pathfinder General John CFrémont and Jessie Benton Frémont, his wife . ous exercise,Becky stopped to breathe. I seized the op-portunity and jumped off; she had hunchedthe saddle onto her neck. She would notallow a crupper and I was two miles fromhome and I could not get the saddle on heragain for she was a mistress in the art ofinflation when cinching was attempted. While in this predicament two teams ap-proached, driven by men with whom ourfamily did not pass the time of day. Theywere bringing the wagon loads of ore tothe mill from the mine their company had** jumped on my fathers estate. I knewthey were Americans, and that they would benice to a girl who needed help—so I walkedto meet them, leading Becky. ** That is an ornary brute, one of themen declared as he proceeded to cinch her sotight that I finally cried for mercy. After I had mounted her, he said: ^* Eun her until she begs off, and afteryou get her home never ride her again. Ifyou do, Ill tell the Colonel! I never did ride Becky again and a fewdays later she was permitted to take her own[90]. Miss Fremont and Chiciuita BEAB VALLEY way to her home ranch, the grass being goodat that time of the year. The ^^ jumping of mines was a seriousmatter in California during our residencethere, and was often the cause of blood-shed. A law had been passed making it legalto ** jump a mine if it was found father lost the Black Drift Mine underthis law, the guard left at the mine havingbeen bribed to leave it long enough foranother to take possession. An attempt was made to take the PineTree Mine, not by bribing the men in charge,for those men were not of the calibre thatcould be bribed, but by starving the meninto abandoning it. The invaders thoughtthe property was unguarded, but far backin the mine there were five men at workunder the mining captain Ketton, when aband of men demanded the surrender of theproperty. Our men refused to leave themine, a
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