. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. owned by Mexicans who wereenjoying a very lucrative business and had almost a monopolyof it, but German and American teamsters introduced whatwas known as the prairie schooner and came into successfulcompetition with them. The prairie schooner was animmicnse wagon, very high and long, its body usually painteda sky blue and its wheels and running gear a rich red color. 126 Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes It was drawn either by horses or mules, or frequently these were hitched sometimes as many as six and eightabreast in platoons of fo
. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. owned by Mexicans who wereenjoying a very lucrative business and had almost a monopolyof it, but German and American teamsters introduced whatwas known as the prairie schooner and came into successfulcompetition with them. The prairie schooner was animmicnse wagon, very high and long, its body usually painteda sky blue and its wheels and running gear a rich red color. 126 Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes It was drawn either by horses or mules, or frequently these were hitched sometimes as many as six and eightabreast in platoons of four and six, there having been some-times as many as thirty or more of these beasts drawing a singleschooner. There were generally not less than eight or tenof these schooners and often twenty-five in a train. The rivalry was so great and the feeling so intensely bit-ter between the owners of the carretas or carts, and theschooners or wagons that a feud broke out which culminatedin a series of pitched battles. One of these which took place. OLD TEXAS LONCHOKN STEER OWNED BV JAMES DOBIE, SHOWN AT IN TE KX ATION AL KAIK SHORTLY BEFORE SLAIN. near Goliad and almost on the identical spot where Fanninand his force were annihilated, resulted in the death of abouta dozen of the owners of the schooners and fully forty ofthose who owned the carretas. This war lasted for several months, but was finally sup-pressed and a peace pact made between the rival those days not only all of the freight but many passengerswere conveyed in either the carts or the schooners both Combats and Conox^ests of Immortal Ukroes 127 from the coast into the interior and from city to city, or townto town, or from Texas to Mexico as well as from San Antonioto the different frontier forts to which supplies for the troopswere transported and sometimes even the troops themselves. In those days there was much less timber than now. Nopasture fences intervened. the country was open. Therewere well def
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