. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . The horsemen from the plains. 168 THE CATTLE TRADE OF WESTER:. id fruit merchants lazily wave their fly-brushes.[Page 167.] great results in a lazy, disorderly way, and makes men millionaires before they have had time to arouse themselves for real work. Cattle-trading is a grand pastime with hundreds of Tcxans. They like the grandiloquent sou
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . The horsemen from the plains. 168 THE CATTLE TRADE OF WESTER:. id fruit merchants lazily wave their fly-brushes.[Page 167.] great results in a lazy, disorderly way, and makes men millionaires before they have had time to arouse themselves for real work. Cattle-trading is a grand pastime with hundreds of Tcxans. They like the grandiloquent sound of a purchase of 60,000 head. There is something at once princely and patriarchal aboutit. They enjoy the adventurous lifeon the great grazing plains, thefreedom of the ranch, the possi-bility of an Indian incursion, theswift coursing on overthe great stretches, the romance ofthe road. Nearly all the immenseregion from the Colorado to theRio Grande is given up to stock-raising. The mesquite grass car-pets the plains from end to end,and the horses, cattle and sheep luxuriate in it; while the giant pecan throws down stores cf oil}^ nuts every year for the wandering hogs to revel over. The mountainous regions around San Antonio offer superb facilities for sheep husbandry ; and the valleys along the
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