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New Jersey Pioneers in Texas
I shall be back to this point in from six to eight weeks and then
go north. We expect to drive our stock to Missouri."s
Two months later he was back at Onion Creek with an oppor-
tunity to write letters and sleep in a bed at Wallings.
I have just got back from Mexico and am on my way to Missouri
with mules and horses. I have been riding on horse back daily for
over two months and shall be as much longer to my place of destina-
tion. We have had good luck thus far and have a nice little drove of
two hundred and fifty head.
It would make you open your eyes to see how we drive them, seven
men does the work. We drive over all kinds of Country with every
animal at liberty with the exception of those we ride.
But we consider them tolerably safe now as we are out of range
of wild horses, or mustangs, as they are called in this country. But
the road we have traveled is full of them, and if they make a break
in the drive, they are gone clean and no redemption. There has
been several droves stampeded by them. They will come charging
four or five hundred in a gang, and then the saddle horses have to
suffer.
I suppose Mother will think [it] funny when you tell her that I
haven[']t slept in a house ten nights in two months, but take my
blanket and lie down when and wherever night overtakes me with
my saddle for my pillow, the broad canopy of heaven my house, and
the earth for my bed, independent of man. But what is the difference,
I rest just as well as if my bed was made of down.
I shall have ridden by the time I get through about two thousand
miles on horseback. It made me sore at first but now I am all right.
But I must stop this and tell you more the next time as my time
is precious. The drove has gone on and I am to overtake it in the
morning."4
Writing to Richard B. Walling in Keyport, he acknowledged the
receipt of $850 which Walling had collected for him, and en-
larged upon his experiences.
I arrived here [near Austin] yesterday all straight just from the Rio
Grande and Mexico fat as a buck and black as a greaser.
You must excuse my writing with a pencil for I have broke my
pen and lost my ink, two good excuses don[']t you think. So I sup-
pose you think [it] kind of strange for not writing soon. But Cos. Dick
it was for want of time and nothing else. I am busy now and [have]
not as much time to write as last winter when I was doing nothing.
sJack Burrowes to Richard B. Walling, March y7, 1856.
4Jack Burrowes to Joseph T. Burrowes, May 21, 1856.351
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