. In the bosom of the Comanches;. o set out anddo for myself. My brother, H. C. Babb, was workingwith cattle on the range for Dan Waggoner. I mybrother in this work in 1870. In 1871 Joe madea deal with Mr. Waggoner to take charge and the In the Bosom of the Comanches 75 cattle for a period of five years on the shares. I wasengaged by Mr. Loving, and continued with the outfitWe had considerable trouble with the Indians, who wouldbreak^m now and then and steal our horses. In the fallof 1871 Joe Loving took me and two more hands andjommg Frank Mull of Parker countv with four
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. o set out anddo for myself. My brother, H. C. Babb, was workingwith cattle on the range for Dan Waggoner. I mybrother in this work in 1870. In 1871 Joe madea deal with Mr. Waggoner to take charge and the In the Bosom of the Comanches 75 cattle for a period of five years on the shares. I wasengaged by Mr. Loving, and continued with the outfitWe had considerable trouble with the Indians, who wouldbreak^m now and then and steal our horses. In the fallof 1871 Joe Loving took me and two more hands andjommg Frank Mull of Parker countv with four handswhose names were John and Henry Strickland, Dave andMat Loftin, together with pack horses and four extrasaddle horses each, we started for a round-up of Jack andPalo Pmto counties. We gathered all the big earlv calveswe could find that were not marked or branded. We tookm the mothers of some of the calves and some we did notWhen we did not want the mother cows we cut themback, and if they returned we shot them in the nose or. Comanche Medicine Man and Tepee. 76 In the Bosom of the Comanches punched In this n,anner -^^^^tf^^Zhundred mavericks, and drove them to the ranchme county, where we mariced and branded themIttinron the marks and brands of Mr Waggoner andm Mull. Having finished job Joe « °* ^foutfit and went m below Decatur and brought back all otthe big calves he could see or get regardless of who ownedhem Very soon the citizens discovered *eu calves -^gone and learned who had g°«\*em, and so an rywere they that there was talk of mobbmg Mi. Waggoner,Tho knew nothing whatever of this steaUng of ca tieMr Waggoner inLediately bought out the mterest oJ e « and made just and satisfactory sett^menwith the rightful owners of the stolen cattle «>, J^J °^digression I should say that in the early days of the cattleindustry unbranded cattle belonged to the outfits whocoXet to them first and then have the „.eans m thewav of enough fighting men to hold -^&
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