. Our country: West. ni^.fw !*ffl* ?*™»|iW]Vj .jjjj- A Lonely Ranch. As the ranchman prospers, he adds building after buildingto his ranch. You may read the history of. many ranches inthe successive stages of buildings, from the roughest of logcabins, which was at first the dwelling and is now merelyan outhouse for tools, implements, etc., up to the two-storywooden house, possibly clapboarded, which was at thedream and is now the home in which the ranchmans wifetakes pride, and in which you will find one or more carpetedrooms, a rocking-chair or two and a newspaper or magazine. I know o
. Our country: West. ni^.fw !*ffl* ?*™»|iW]Vj .jjjj- A Lonely Ranch. As the ranchman prospers, he adds building after buildingto his ranch. You may read the history of. many ranches inthe successive stages of buildings, from the roughest of logcabins, which was at first the dwelling and is now merelyan outhouse for tools, implements, etc., up to the two-storywooden house, possibly clapboarded, which was at thedream and is now the home in which the ranchmans wifetakes pride, and in which you will find one or more carpetedrooms, a rocking-chair or two and a newspaper or magazine. I know one ranch, a sheep-ranch, in which the record runsfarther back than the log house; it runs back to a dugout, asort of compromise between a cave and a huge oblong ant-hill,in which the resolute sheepman lived, or rather burrowed, for RANCH LIFE. 221 more than a year, when he began his ranch life, like David,with a few sheep in the wilderness. Now he is the ownerof two ranches and many thousand sheep. The one chief a
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