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AT THE PALO DURO RANCH
holding it down by placing on top of the gunny sacks a lot
of large stones from near the spring. With our blankets
inside, we slept there as soon as it was completed. Look-
ing up, we could see the hole about the middle of the ceil-
ing.
We waited about two weeks, and as no word came from
the home ranch we decided to make a move. Drawing lots
to see which one would go in to headquarters, Jim won.
Promising that some one would be out within three or
four days, he departed.
I had a big bunch of cattle and fourteen horses to look
after, but as the grazing was fine they made very little
trouble. The cattle would scatter and graze most of the
day, never straying more than a short distance from the
little stream, and before sundown I would round them up
not far from camp, where they would bed down for the
night.
I kept one horse picketed at camp, saddled and ready
for use day and night, while the others were hobbled and
never strayed very far, except on one occasion. The
picketed horse also acted to a certain extent as a sentinel.
As a rule, if a strange horse approaches, either day or
night, the picket horse will whinny.
I crawled from the fort one morning to find not a
hobbled horse in sight. I was a light sleeper, but I had
not heard a sound. There were the cattle all right and I
could discover no reason for the absence of the horses.
Putting some corn in one saddle-bag and bread and
jerked meat in the other, I soon found the trail. The di-
rection was south. The horses kept well together and
seemed to be traveling rapidly. Thereupon I concluded
they had been stampeded, but by whom or what was be-
yond me. The trail finally led by the bed of a shallow, re-
cently dried-up lake, where the earth was soft and almost
muddy in spots and there the mystery was solved.73
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Hoyt, Henry Franklin. A Frontier Doctor, book, 1929; Boston, Massachusetts. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143532/m1/101/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.