West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-01-15

-'t'' NNAAAh@ = W AAlNIAl~hlN - "a nRHtlfl-
tm stallion recently purchased bv Joe
az an expense of sue thousand dollars.
Alter his capture JoC's herd WAS of
short duration, y, with tho assistance
of this stallion they nearly or quite All
went wild. and though rewards OF five
dollars. and aitcrward ten dollars pcr
head was offered for the horses i'm any
corral, with au additional offer of five
hundred dollur- for the stallion. never
heard ui more than fifteen or twenty
horses being returned Some McNiCanS
hearing ut II came 10 capture them with
tWentN men and forty or iiftv horses.
out after racing for them until their
own horses had given out. they only
sncctrdcd I'M getting The fifteen or
twenty above mentioned. The result
was MIR Gilbert was ruined MANY
other eases ut the kind have happened.
Horse raising, however. on the plains
j. very profitable, and horScs will live
where cattle will die and never have
disease, that assume the character of
an epidemic, barring the continued
danger of their going wild there is no
such proiitablc business i'm stock raising
on the plains or mountains.
Wild stations often become aggres-
SlNe and even dangerous. Mr. Blod.
som, friend of mine, was going on n
tnp with his family partly hunting ans
p'r'lN TO look over the range TO see the
condition Of hi, stock. One night
while In camp at Antelope Valley his
team of horse, OwO Gnc murcO dis
appeared. AvUkiug the next murninc
Ac found himself without his horses,
and starting his two BOYS to follow
some tracks iu one direction. he and
hs wife started i'm another Presently
hc came i'm Sight OF his lost horses i'm
company with several wild ones. and
to his horror, he saw coming toward
mm tbr stallion "bo~, of The herd. "
and although hc had his double-bar-
relied >hot-guu, he knew il was loaded
with iuc Shot, and those two loads were
in" only thing, standing between him
and destruction. Had he been "A
tender foot, md0ublcdlN ho would
have been injured Being. however.
an oid-tmrr, hv stood hi- ground, tell
ING l's wife to keep continually behind
nm On came ia, Infatuated beast.
head down, ears back and mouth open.
70 within few PAGES OF Blossom.
who. at thi. critical moment.
began To swing his arms IN the
manner done when throwing a lasso
. 't.' "' sNliNAA W. Ms ilNllNtNNIll tnl I'M
merciiul and uncomfortable character
OF these ropes when once in their fold,
and, fearing his own captivity. ho
stopped on his charge, but continually
circling around Just out Of reach of n
rope, he andcavorcd To scare his enc
mics away. Blossom kept swinging
his arm and yelling constantly. work
ING toward hi, own horses, until finally
ln nod flrnff, I,rtt.,..t..I,. a.
were the gcntlc,t possible, and not vet
under the influence of their wild com.
pniOn-
Assisting his wife 10 mount one, he
mounted the other. and as he started
back 10 camp the stallion saw his
efforts were hopeless and went back to
his wild herd in the distance. assisted
by the two loads OF small shot before
mentioned. Had Blossom. when first
attacked. shot this horse and failed TO
Kill him, as he did after being mounted.
he would undoubtedly never have lived
10 tel! the tale. Should he have killed
him the report OF the gun would have
siampedcd the band, and i'm all prob
ability bis team would have followed (:
but once Oh their backs he had them
beside forming combination, viz. +.
Horse and rider, OF which all horses
and cattle are afraid in the far West.
Dow Hunt-man, at that time. about
1880, wealthy mining and stockman.
brought a beautiful sorrel stallion from
California, called Paichen. This horse
becoming nearly wild on the range.
gathered his band, and was so energct-
h. in his endeavOrs that he got 10 stop
ping the stage on the road between
Battle Mountain ana Tuscarora, i'm Ne
Nad|. Cudcayoring 10 drive the stage
horscs into his band 1t required All
the cLort- possible by the drivers TO
make him desist One unfortunate
night for him hc ran his head into the
iasso and was deprived OF his librrt,
assuming the role of the common sad
dlc-horsc on the range, on whose back
can recall many pleasant davs follow
ing the chase or In quest Of game, for
hc finally fell into my possession
! should guess from my observations
and the extent ~ the country. viz. .
about I POO miles wide bv nearly 1000
long. there must be at least 80, 600 TO
10000 wild horses aud ponies within
the limits Of the United States west Of
tho Missouri River n ". Dunn, IN
Ch'cugy JOUyHUi