. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-FOUR Vol XVII. No 3 No. 813 BOSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1890. "Iio" Gets Left. Written Fori the Breeder and Sportsman. Tbe Californian Indian has not the same opportunities to ride or need of ponieB aB his wilder brother ea3t of the Rockies and in Arizona, but still he baa the same fondness for a horse, and takes as naturally to riding aB a duck does to swimming. In 1S75 there used to be quite a number of Indians around Yosemite Valley, and not a few of them had good ponies, which they were willing to race, and race f
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-FOUR Vol XVII. No 3 No. 813 BOSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1890. "Iio" Gets Left. Written Fori the Breeder and Sportsman. Tbe Californian Indian has not the same opportunities to ride or need of ponieB aB his wilder brother ea3t of the Rockies and in Arizona, but still he baa the same fondness for a horse, and takes as naturally to riding aB a duck does to swimming. In 1S75 there used to be quite a number of Indians around Yosemite Valley, and not a few of them had good ponies, which they were willing to race, and race for money too. There was one young buck called Joe, who owned a little black pony that nearly broke the white sports around Yosem- ite and won for its owner all the ready cash that the rest of the Indians had, 1 his was sometimes quite a large sum as the noble red man at that time made quite a good thing in tbe valley and outside. In the valley they fished and did •'chores," etc, selling the trout for good prices to tourist3 who were not skillful enough to catch them themselves. Outside they used to herd cattle and sheep and also to shear for the large sheep pastures on the plains below. Joe's pony Bob was a wonderful little animal. It stood only about fourteen hands, but was as long as a ship and would go a quarter at a pace that was astonishing. Now there happened to be in Yosemite Valley at the time I am writing about a certain Bill Howard who had & lot of milk cows and horBes and who leased Laman's house, orchard and the Mirror Lake house. Howard was a good deal of a sport, and as he had ".a number of horses in the valley with him that could sprint a bit, he was soon accommodated with a race against some of tbe Indian ponies. He cleaned out most of them when Joe, hap- pening to hear there was sport going on, left a job at shearing near Merced, and came into the valley with his famous pony Bob, and a hundred dollars or so to back him with, Howard of course had
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