It's not true that they always fought with Indians. They had more in common with most Native Americans than they did with city people. The favorite hat is the Stetson. A storm in these can drop as much as one inch of rain in 30 minutes. When they find many of the same kind of tracks in one area, they know these traveled in herds.
Footprints can tell how big it was.
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