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SINGERS AND STORYTELLERS
He said, "Con mucho gusto." We went into a cantina where
there were chairs at an empty table, peace, and beer. There he
told me a fine story about a bear that kidnaped a bride and
took her off and made her his own mate.
That reminds me of one of the best stories I ever heard
anywhere, and of a philosophy about stories. Luck is being
ready for the chance. I've had lots of chances, have missed lots
of them, but not all. In hearing stories much depends on
chance-as in falling in love and in getting married.
In the fall of 1932 I was with pack mules and mozo twisting
around, through, and across the mountains of northern Mexico
to the west-always to the west-just looking, listening, and
living the most independent form of life I have known. Except
for a few fences and ranchos, the country was all open and
unrestricted by man-a country immense, immense. It seemed
to belong to me as much as to anybody else. In the high Sierra
Madre itself there were no fences at all excepting poles around
little corn patches, no ranches, only rancherias (settlements)
of poor-but always generous-squatters. Some of these
squatters instead of fencing corn patches guarded them in
season against bears.
One morning I saw a small bear running up the side of a
mountain. I was not ready for the chance to shoot, despite the
fact that I always carried my .30-.30 in a scabbard attached to
my saddle. My saddle mule was bent on going the opposite
direction. That afternoon we came to a perfect place to camp:
wood, water, grass, scenery, all outdoors to hunt in if one
wanted to hunt. I had a strong impulse to linger, but had set
out to reach the Colorado Ranch that night. I was making for
high country and left next morning for the Piedra Blanca
Ranch at the foot of the Del Carmen Mountains. This was in
Coahuila. It was the time of the year for cold nights and hot
days. I rode ahead across a plain of greasewood, breathing the
dust raised by my mule. Late in the day I came to the first
watering-well, windmill, troughs-at a place called Los HuBr-
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Boatright, Mody C. Singers and Storytellers, book, 1961; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67655/m1/14/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.