Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-18
EQUINES IN LOVE.
Strange Story of the FOur-Legged Romeo
and Juliet of the Plains.

Strange story of the FOur-Legged Romeo
and Juliet of the Plains.
Those who have never visited Wyoming
COW or horse ranch, especially during the
winter months, when the boys are ''laying
around waiting for the spring roundup"
and listened TO their many stories Of hui
morous, but more often exciting experience
on the range, couched in a vocabulary pecu-
liar TO themselves, many words Of which
would be unin1elligiblo to a stranger in the
country, can have but little idea of the vol
umcs Of unwritten history and romance
these little dirt-rOOfed log cabins contain.
After supper we lit our pipes and sat
around pleasant wood fire, while without
the wind howlcd and moancd drearily, blow
ing the snow into the gulches and drifting
II into great banks on the east and north
sides OF the surrounding mountains, where,
in sheltered places, it would still be found
far into July.
On this night, Of course, tho only thing
talked Of was wild horses, SAYS a CORE
spOndcnt OF tho st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Rynairson told u9 Of the run he and Pite
Stoncr and Carmody had given them in Jan
uary, 1856, when they ran them, by taking
three stations for over one hundred and
sixty miles, and got them In the pasture
just at dark Carmody having headed and
turned Thorn only after they had run them
eighty miles, brought them back and they
picked them up, and succeeded in getting
them into the pasture
Tho next morning they took fresh horses
and corralled aud caught four Of the twelve.
The others jumped tho corral and got
away Out Of these four they only saved
one, a thrce-yearold stud that IS now down
on Sweetwater. A fOur-year-old baby FLY
got away the third day after the cap
turc, and the other two, "a team of match
iron-grayS-one a mare and the other a stud
came % strange and one might say a
romantic end. 10 was noticed by those who
had seen the band running wild that these
two iron grays always remained together,
and, as the boys put it, were mashed q"
on each other.
These two horses were tied up separately
and fed hay and had water carried 10 them,
but they refused 20 cat or drink and kept
calling and answering each other Yet
whom they were put together they appeared
contontcd and ate and drank freely. After
a few days tho boys decided to break them,
and named the stud Romeo and the
other "JHliet,' from their attachment to
each other. To break horse, however,
that from its incancy until it has reached
the age % five or six years has run wild
and free, seeing man only as an enemy, is
no easy task Romeo fought hard, and in
his struggles reared up, fen back, ana his
head hitting the hard, frozen ground, he
was killed That ended the horse-breakinR
for that day, but all forenoon aud night
the mare whinnicd and called pitcously for
her mate, refused to eat or drink and ap-
parently could not be consoled. She kent
this up for three days. They put other
horses with hOr and did every thing 20
make her "come TO her oats" as they
called il, but she would not be comfortcd.
and on the morning Of the fourth day they
found her dead