With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868"A strange, wild story it is too, and perhaps worth the telling, if only for the reason that the stage on which it was enacted has so completely changed that the scenes in which the adventurer took his part, and the life he led in the far West and South, can never recur as long as the world endures. Civilisation, railways, and the advancing tide of population have swept them into the linbo of forgotten things so completely that it is hard to realise that such a state of society could ever really have existed only forty or fifty years ago." ~ from the introduction. |
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amongst arms arrived Border Ruffians boys brought Brownsville brush bunch cabin camp Castroville cattle chaparral Colonel Comanchés command corrals course Creek deer drive farm fight fire followed Fort Inge friends Frio frontier girls halt hands hanging hard heard horses hundred hunting Indianola Indians Jack journey Kansas Kansas River killed knew land Leavenworth Lecompton lived look Medina River Mexican miles Miliner Monticello morning mounted murder never niggers night Nueces River old fellow once party peccary pleasant plenty poor prairie pretty prisoners ranch Rangers rest ride ridge rifle Rio Grandé river road rode round saddle San Antonio scouts seemed Shawnee shoot shot side six-shooter soon South Southern stood supper Texan Texas things Thompson thought timber told took town trail turned U.S. troops vaquéros Vigilance Committee wagon West whilst whiskey wild wounded young