. In the bosom of the Comanches;. westarted on the trail to Kansas early in the summer. Wecrossed Red river northwest of Gainesville, and as usualat that season Red river was up and we were all dayswimming the cattle over. Our wagon loaded withsupphes and baggage was drawn by oxen, as was usual In the Bosom of the Comanches 69 in those days, and after getting the herd safely over theriver the next big task was to get the wagon and oxenacross. We procured some dead cottonwood logs andtied them under the wagon hub on each side so that thewhole outfit would float like cork. We hitched the oxento
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. westarted on the trail to Kansas early in the summer. Wecrossed Red river northwest of Gainesville, and as usualat that season Red river was up and we were all dayswimming the cattle over. Our wagon loaded withsupphes and baggage was drawn by oxen, as was usual In the Bosom of the Comanches 69 in those days, and after getting the herd safely over theriver the next big task was to get the wagon and oxenacross. We procured some dead cottonwood logs andtied them under the wagon hub on each side so that thewhole outfit would float like cork. We hitched the oxento the end of the wagon tongue with a long chain. Twoof us took positions on opposite sides of the oxen so as topoint them across the river, and others got into the wagonto weight it down, and in this fashion the craft and thecrew consisting of oxen and men were launched for thecrossing. The oxen swam bravely and kept the coursepointed by the two pilots, the logs and wagon floatedserenely, and everything pointed to success, until we. GEO. STEPHENS, Decatur, Texas 70 In the Bosom of the Comanches reached the opposite bank of the river where we had tountie the logs to disembark the wagon. In this operationthere was some blundering work, and the wagon sank tothe bottom in deep water. The water was so deep andswift that we had to wait until the next day for someabatement of the river that we might unload and thenrescue the wagon, which we did and soon proceeded totake up the trail again. We traveled what was known asthe Shawnee trail, and had but Httle more trouble till wereached Arkansas river. Before it was possible to reachKan^as we had frost, and had to go into winter quarterson Rock creek. There being only a settler every here andthere, we had plenty of open country and hired settlersto winter the cattle on prairie hay. In the meantime Joe Henry Martin had moved toKansas on the White Water near Augusta, and the Adairsand Earharts had moved to Eureka, Kansas. As soon asthe cattle
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