The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-01-12
FROM ASSINIBOIA.
VIII Dav, a Former C0ncho Country
Boy, Writes Interestingly OF Life
In That Cold Northern Section.
Sage Greek Ranch, Dec. %.


Austin Cunningham
San Angelo, Texas.
Dear Austin:
/ guess you think ! got froze up
with the first cold spell. On the
first day Of September | left Sage
Creek with twelve saddle horses
and pack horse with n bed on
him rs big as n covered wagon !
started out with the Western
Packing Co. wagon, stayed with
them until the 18th of October,
then joined the Uli wagon and
stayed with them until the 10th
of December, so you see ] was
pretty busy all fall.
The III cattle are owned by
Senator Clark Of Montana / was
all over Montana from the White
River 70 Milk River. saw lots
Of country and found Out what it
WIS 20 face blizzard and TO get
up about II O'Clock when it ls 10
below and sing to bunch Of
steers ! have often thought
down in Texas when it was about
20 above zero how cold we thought
it was, but up here it would be a
nice warm day.
| got back to the ranch on the
18th with ~ head Of cattle, and
the other day Add came out with
two letters for me and one Of
them had picture of fine
young man ] knew in olden times.
Many thanks, old boy, its the
living image of you. Some day if
find real strong machine that
has good works on the inside ]
may have my face taken and send
you the result. / have your pic
ture on the wall and every old
puncher that comes along wants
to know who you are. ! tell them
you are an old puncher ] worked
under on the Rio Pecos.
We have n log shanty 20x30 and
she is the hottest house | ever
saw, a log barn and lot of pole
corrals. Ed has been working
like beaver all fall. ] am rid
ing the line and holding back
about 1000 cattle. | only have to
look after them right after
storm and in good weather !
poison coyotes for past time. /
killed porcupine the other day
and filled him full of poison and
laid him by the side of the road.
There was bunch of Indians
camped up the road about two
miles, and one of them Ga buck)
came down TO see if we would
give him a piece of beef. On his
back he carried a sack which con-
tanned the porcupine / had killed
and poisoned. | told him so, but
he said no, porcupine heap good,
Injun eat 'em.
/ stepped into the house, got
my bottle of poison, showed him
the cuts and pointed to the bottle.
1t nearly scared him to death and
he was the whitest Indian ] ever
saw. lie washed his hands in the
snow, washed out his mouth, and
all the time was saying, "porcu-
pine heap bad, make Injun heap
sick"
So you see what kind of people
these Indians are. | have seen
them eat coyotes number of
times, and they think grey wolf
meat is the finest in the world.
| have killed good many coyotes
but their bodies are frozen as hard
as rocks, and will have to wait
until spring before ! can skin
them.
Austin, my post office will be
Oldham, Montana, from now on,
as we are fifteen miles from the
Canada line, so you see, ! am
now over in Uncle Sans territory.
Many thanks for the Press. !
was just thinking of sending for a
San Angelo paper, and when my
coyotes thaw out will send you a
scalp
Give my regards to everybody
and don't work too hard.
Your friend,