The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-04-19
The GIRL or WILD HORSE RUN

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Of The wds Hsrs Rsbf The ehsses
ere ibsi ,ng never d,d unlsss 700 tss'
Hvsd the noaptsiss Of lowef Mexico
sni there ne iss tvsp there Who car
sbos ihs little besp Of stones shios usfk'
hsr grave o. who eau tell the story OF bos
abe mtt btr death 10 ssve the lires Of th,
hall si.,sd. Isdi.p besisssd, pfospsc'ots,
vhs bsd isksn tseit last stand on tbs
mouni 10 pesk which is pos tposn -
simpsoH's Ret Ba, those sto do snos
the ttory gill ststr forget. nos cot ons
OF The oosmep or ibe miners passes the
lonely spoi ihoui t.kips "a bis bat 10
mots respect TO the memory Of the 10
knovo sirl
! 1eYsr knowsd. snd | dCb't s'pose no
one ever knoved what her name wss, sal !
Joe Danne % he sci 10 front Of biz sdobe
and relied rissrt,ts l'n hout The last
OF EN- alive ~ tstr krowed her. aud ]
souldat be here tslkiu boat her IL tsssn'i
Tor ubst she done. When II vas sil yer,
we buried her the beat We could. We
conldL'i get 10 monpimeois or fancy
stonef, ,ueb 80 they have down east, 10 ve
Just piifd rocks over the grsys 10 show
sh'rs It Is sud to keep the Wild crssintes
from digging u up. Since then some
On ore rock. has been put on, snd nos the
heaps 90 big sueFs 1t will last forever.
Bat it will never get to) bis for the sct
she done. which was one mighty few men
would q wsote to tackle,
liwss wsy back 10 the DAYS when | was
kid Bein ss vas bcro and brought
up along the Rio Grande, Was slmost as
mu ucb GfessT as was white mar, and
shsn Them eastern prospectou come
along they hired me TO go With them a
Interpreter. even II was only kid. 10
i.ct. they couldn'iget Do men TO 60 slooe
with them csu,e The men was mostly ell
of prospectin on their own account,
Tier. wsbt DO railroads down here
then There want nothin but Iudisns
and Gresssr,. II you wanted grub, you
had to iteisb, ii from Albuquerque, or
II you was hard up for 1t you could get
little ifom the old s pge station 10 the val
ley lnst hey youd where Las Cruces is now.
Wild Horse Ran is up 10 the mountains
back OF there. 1t sin't 20 pretty place
Iuat little stretch OF mesa where there
vas water and where the wild horses used
to come until they had worn the grouud
sll away like buff,lJ wsllow. The ei,l
and her old father lived there. The old
man was pu,ty on them monntsins he
said they we're full OF gold and silver and
pretty much everything else, and guess
be was right, though there amt much OF
it bsen sot ont yet.
Well. he settled right there near the
run. grubbin round 10 the foothills and
collectin specimens and st,kin out dozens
OF claims which be never worked. but
sg'in which nobody made no protest. !
nev,r knowed the CID man N ucb, though
seed him frequent when | was 10 the
mountains and | heered as bow he had
come hom the east to get rich He was
like lots OF Others. and be ups and dies be
fore be had notbib more than them
claims vhich be had staked out. bnt
WITCH be hadn't never properly en- cred.
when be died, be left that there girl
alone oa THE ball 'dobe, bali dugol,. he
had made. She was bout Is, guess, and
We thought ss how she would 80 mp to
to live provided she didn't
60 back east But instead OF that she
stayed risLt along, oil alone 10 the place
where she had lived with the old man.
She had some sort OF 90 idea that by so
ioin she c1uld hold the claims which be 8
had etaked ont. Some OF the men told
ler ss how che was wrong, bot che q
thought they we're only tryin to get her to ,
20 so they could jump the claims, and 80 !
he stuck it ont She was = good shot, G
md deer is till thick up tha. way. 80 be '
wsen ths, and vegetables ,be got along l.
% kr as trub VAS concerned. Bot i, b
D at have been mighty lonesome, for d
here wsnts white man nearer than the
tsse station, and that was . good 20 o
mile away. II
She had been there quite few years p
nd the people So knowed OF her had got X
o csllin her tie Girl Of Wild Horse o
lun, When goes up that way With K
hose eastern chaps, We stopped to get b
,s,er al the Rup. sn1 We told her what I,
art OF The mounteius we was besdin Tor p
nd /, was lucky thing we dli, for II she o
sdnt knowed We aonld never have got
ut Of the FIX we so. into. u
We didnt know ii when We ,tsrted, but e'
he Nsvsjoes had gore and got rsmbunc e'
ious eesin, They YES slssys more or u
s,s troublesome. but when We LETT they e'
,d kind Of 9nieted do~n. and We want
,olin for DO outbreak. Bein up 10 the AZ
|, ,oua,sins. Of coarse, We didL't know what u
10. s.goin op. o.
Well, ss bad done more prospec,in, sc
I'd | vas hsvin . cipch With my job Of
,terpretin. There want nothln to inter q
ret, aud 20 | wss doin the cookiu and d.
,okip alter csmp. We b.d pitched IL .. 81
as foot Ct the mounisiu which they cslls al
impson's Rst nov, after old man Simp OF
30, Who 10 buried there. Things ws 10
eoiu nice and satisfactory when one 70
isht. ia.t alter grub. there comes . sbot
ad bullet upseis the stuf 90 The nre
one ui % stepped to inquire shers The