. Riding and driving. Clough Anderson, 6thVirginia Continental Line, went to the Falls ofthe Ohio, now Louisville, Kentucky, in the year1784, and was one of that band of pioneers whoupheld and advanced the border. Since thenthere has been little or no time when some mem-ber of the family, or close friend, has not been incontact with the Indian. When the red man be-gan to break and ride the wild horse, it wouldbe difficult to say. The woodland and bordersavages used horses stolen from the whites, butLewis and Clark found the Western tribes usingthe mustang, broncho, cayuse, or whatever thetitle
. Riding and driving. Clough Anderson, 6thVirginia Continental Line, went to the Falls ofthe Ohio, now Louisville, Kentucky, in the year1784, and was one of that band of pioneers whoupheld and advanced the border. Since thenthere has been little or no time when some mem-ber of the family, or close friend, has not been incontact with the Indian. When the red man be-gan to break and ride the wild horse, it wouldbe difficult to say. The woodland and bordersavages used horses stolen from the whites, butLewis and Clark found the Western tribes usingthe mustang, broncho, cayuse, or whatever thetitle of the free horse may be, as early as the Comanches and some of the Sioux,the Indians, I am told, were neither very bold norvery skilful riders, although they managed theirhorses with sufficient dexterity to make them dan-gerous enemies, but they had no mercy upon theirbeasts and no sentimental regard for them. The story of the United States cavalry ex-plains, in brief, the remarkable efficiency it has. FIG. 52. —MR. C. ELMER RAILEY
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