The wild mustangs of the far West are rapidly disappearing.
These mustangs are quite wild, and have no fixed feeding-ground.
Ninety yoke of oxen and several hundred mustangs were therefore bought, but not a single American horse!
The mustangs trembled, and acted as if they wished to turn and run.
The mustangs seemed to realise that all was not right, and pricked up their ears and smelled the air.
On the other hand, the mustangs of the whites were tired from the hard night's ride from Gonzales and vicinity, and they could not keep up the pace, although urged to do their best by their riders.
None of the enemy was hit, but two of the mustangs pitched headlong, carrying three of the riders down with them.
As Dan was passing the cave he saw, with much surprise, a Mexican soldier leading two mustangsinto the opening.
They tried to make their mustangs move on a run, but the animals could not be urged farther.
Find out what their game is, first, and then ride back to Bexar as fast as our mustangs can make it.
Both mustangs were now kicking and plunging, and the boys had all they could do to keep their seats.
All went outside, crawling through the battered doorway, and were soon mounted on several extramustangs Mr. Radbury had brought along.
The next drove of mustangs that Dick and Crusoe saw were feeding quietly and unsuspectingly in a rich green hollow in the plain.
When the squatters first issued from the woods bordering the valley, an immense herd of wild horses or mustangs were browsing on the plain.
Mustangs are regularly taken by the Indians to the settlements of the white men for trade, but very poor specimens are these of the breed of wild horses.
Our mustangs were well calculated for the occasion and we went over the hills like kites.
He had the mustangs and all the necessary equipment.
They were still, dark men, whose facial expression seldom varied; tall and lithe and wiry as the mustangs they rode.
From my post I could see the mustangs flying before a cloud of dust.
When the mustangs came to drink--which was always after dark--the gates would be closed on them.
The pound of hoofs, the snorts, a screaming neigh that was frightful, the mad stampede of the mustangs with a whirling cloud of dust, bewildered and frightened me so that I lost sight of Jones.
The mustangs won't see them till they're right on them.
With long manes and tails flying, the mustangs came on apace and passed us in a trampling roar, the white stallion in the front.
Jones's instructions to the men were to wait until the mustangs were close upon them, and then yell and shout and show themselves.
The mustangs might try to slip by our fire in the night and we must keep a watch or them.
The crafty old buffalo-hunter had hemmed the mustangs in a circle and had left himself free in the center.
It was then, when the mustangs were pivoting, with the white in the lead, that Jones jumped upon the stone, fired his pistol and roared with all his strength.
Mounting his box behind six fiery mustangs lashed to highest speed, the driver of Crandall's Stage cried the good news all the way to San Jose--"California is admitted!
Could we but elude the guard and mount the mustangs we were riding when captured, our chances for escape would be all we could wish.
My new companions, Israel Gordon and a Mexican with unpronounceable name, were on their way to Salt Lake City with a few mustangs and Indian ponies, and we at once arranged to journey together as far as our respective routes carried us.
Still favored with fine weather and our mustangs being in excellent condition, good progress was noted in the march westward.
Each rushed for a pony, leaped into the saddle, and, before Lone Wolf and his band had shaken off their slumber, we were urging our mustangs to their utmost speed southward.
The mustangs had long since puffed themselves into their second wind, and, falling instinctively into their steady swinging lope, they moved ahead like machines.
Anyway, Rankin never went again, and from the way he looked when he got back here, half froze, and the mustangs beat out, I reckon Blair never knew how close he come to a necktie party that day.
The hand on the reins tightened meaningly, and in sympathy the mustangs moved ahead at a swifter pace, leaving behind a trail of tobacco-smoke denser than before.
Only the restless movement of the impatient mustangs answered.
Graham," he said at last, "hitch the mustangs to the light wagon.
The regular breath of the mustangs shot out like puffs of steam from the exhaust of an engine, and the moisture frosted about their flanks and nostrils.
I fired both my barrels, and two more mustangs were galloping away without riders.
On came the Comanches, their mustangs at full gallop, and their gay trappings fluttering in the breeze.
Brandishing their gaily ornamented spears with horrible shrieks, which I own, in spite of my resolution, made me feel very uncomfortable, on they came on their mustangs at full tilt towards us.
They are mustangs crossed with pure Arab blood, which my grandfather had selected and sent over to him, regardless of cost.
I have heard say that the mustangsare the descendants of Spanish barbs, and that the barbs were Moorish horses.
For the mustangs throwed him a good deal, and he had to lay bound up in linements a good deal of the time, and arneky.
And Deacon Bobbet had took in a lot ofmustangs to keep through the winter.
And Deacon Bobbet said that three of them mustangs he had took in to break had got to be rid that day, they wuz a gettin' so wild he didn't hardly dast to go nigh 'em.
Then, almost abruptly, they emerged, the mustangs trotting on to the flat summit of a hill.
The mustangs moderated their pace as they began to ascend the foot-hills.
I thought the mustangs were tough, hardy little beasts, that would go all day without dropping.
No faster; they were too wise to rush within range of riflemen who could neither be headed off nor flanked; and their hardy mustangs were nearly at the last gasp with thirst and with the fatigue of this tremendous journey.
Evidently the Apaches, and theirmustangs still more, were unfit for fight.
Over the plain mustangs filling themselves with grass and warriors searching for roots.
Occasionally, where a grove of trees stood close and the snow lay shallow, the boys got off and wrestled, rousing the blood in their legs and arms; then urged their mustangs to greater speed.
The mustangs responded to the lifted bridle and ran at breakneck speed.
They cantered on slowly, the mustangs responding automatically to the light prick of the spur.
It was driven by gananes, sitting astride the mustangs and singing lustily.
The mustangs of the vaqueros stood suddenly still, quivering.
The crushed grass looked like green blood, but there was no other evidence of slaughter; the mustangs had been fleeter than the cattle.
The next morning chocolate was brought to the boys at half-past five, after which they dressed, and mounting the mustangs awaiting their pleasure in the courtyard, went off for a morning canter.
They tethered the mustangs that the beasts might eat of the abundant grass, and consumed a small quantity of their store.
Were the frightened mustangs fleeter of foot than those maddened brutes?
After many weary miles the mustangs slackened, and the boys dismounted and cut two slender but stinging whips.
The mustangs were strong and made fair headway, incited by terror and the spur.
Spurring their mustangs they dashed forward, letting the lassos fly.
A few moments later they all galloped at the top speed of their much-enduring mustangs to a great clump of oaks, where they dismounted and listened with breathless interest to the adventures of Roldan and Adan.
Adan gasped but cinched his saddle; the boys sprang upon the now tractable mustangs and plunged into the forest below.
The two mustangs they led forth, vicious brutes at best, were very restless from prolonged inactivity.
The next day, at sunset, we received a visit from an immense herd of mustangs (wild horses).
Some few mustangs and buffaloes were grazing, but the larger portion, extending as far as the eye could reach, were still prostrate on the grass.
During our journey we saw small herds of deer and antelopes, doubtless enticed to the water-courses by the recent rains, and towards night we descried a drove of mustangs upon a swell of the prairie half a mile ahead of us.
On the following morning they mounted their mustangs and started slowly for the rim, where they arrived some time after noon.
Dad returned about an hour later, riding Silver Face, driving the other mustangs before him.
A halt was made and a real meal cooked while the mustangs were watered and permitted to graze at the ends of their ropes.
This done, the boys took their mustangs out into the field, where they tried them out.
They managed to get to the base of the mountain, but the mustangs were pretty well fagged.
The mustangs had been hobbled by tying their fore feet together.
They looked over the mustangs in the corral, asking the owner about this and that one.
I left the stuff up at the Garden, where the mustangs are.
They won't go further than the Gardens, but finding our mustangs there a mountaineer would understand.
In a moment most of the othermustangs were doing likewise.
One of the Indian mustangs supplied the place of the guide's horse, which was wind broken, and the two now pursued their journey at a moderate pace, reaching Fort Leavenworth without encountering any more dangers.
Skimming over the ground like swallows, six sunburnt men with hair as black as the crow's wing, gaily dressed, and bearing long lances, soon reined in their mustangs within twenty paces of the party and gazed curiously at them.
Moreover, I noticed in many places, as we glided swiftly along, that the turf was cut up by numerous hoof-tracks: droves of mustangs had passed over the ground.
Wild mustangs would have had the hoof naked; while the tracks of Texan or American horses could have been easily told, either from the peculiar shoeing or the superior size of their hoofs.
Just then I saw an object over its edge that answered well to guide me: it was the croup and hip-bones of a horse--one of the mustangs staked near the bank.
Close at hand a dozen or more wiry little mustangs stood saddled and bridled and ready for any emergency.
A little while later, happy in their love and fearlessly eager to meet the trials of the days to come in a new country, they had mounted their mustangs and were riding eastward.
I found further proof that these mustangs were all mounted by noticing that they did not stop to graze, as the loose horses did, being kept in constant motion by their riders.
The tracks made by the mustangs led through the open part of the timber, where there were no bushes and low branches; and this is one proof that the Indians did not pass through there in the night-time.
They would have liked to improve the time by stealing away with the mustangs which they coveted, but even in this hour of public excitement they knew it would not be safe, and the act might arouse suspicion.
The poor Chinaman's limbs were sore for a day or two, and he could never be induced to mount one of the mustangs again.
If you don't, them mustangs outside may refresh your recollection.
Up to this point neither Mosely nor his companion suspected that the mustangs which they desired to purchase had once been in their possession.
They stole those mustangsfrom me and my friend a week ago.
Then, turning his attention to the mustangs: "Are them mustangs yours, landlord?
They had already caught sight of two mustangs which were browsing near the Golden Gulch Hotel, and the sight of these useful animals excited the envy and longing of Bill Mosely.
They found it much less agreeable to use their own legs than the legs of the two mustangs which had borne them so comfortably over the hills.
Then Allie's situation became so perilous that she saw only the Indians to the left, with their mustangsstretched out so as to intercept her before she got out into the wider valley.
Here they got off their mustangs and apparently held a council.
The sons wheeled their mustangs and rode to the fore; August Naab reseated himself and took up the reins; the ascent proceeded.
The wilder mustangs in the far corral began to kick and snort, and those in the corral where Black Bolly was kept trooped noisily to the bars.
The Navajos rode wiry, wild-looking mustangs and drove ponies and burros carrying packs, most of which consisted of deer-hides.
They vanished in the gloom of the cedars, and the band of frightened horses and mustangs clattered after them.
Riderless mustangs were galloping down the road; several frightened boys were fleeing across the square; not a man was in sight.
Eschtah's braves and mustangs are for his friend's use.
Mustangs were turned into the fields, packs were unstrapped from the burros, blankets spread under the cottonwoods.
Presently all the mustangs and ponies were in, the procession widening out in a triangle from Scarbreast, the leader.
Hare walked, leading two mustangs by the halters, and Naab and Mescal rode, each of them followed by two other spare mounts.
The Navajos go in here and swim their mustangs across to that sand bar," explained Naab.
The brothers, taking advantage of the brief periods when the stallion was going toward August, changed their tired mustangs for fresh ones.
We break wild mustangs along this stretch," said Naab, drawing Hare away.
In one corral were the teams that had hauled the wagons from White Sage; in another upward of thirty burros, drooping, lazy little fellows half asleep; in the third a dozen or more mustangs and some horses which delighted Hare.
The mustangs and burros filed out among the cedars, nipping at the sage and the scattered tufts of spare grass.
Jess was a pretty tolerable fair hunter, knowed mustangs and mustang-ways, and had a right fine string of saddle hosses.
Underfed mustangs have killed men by this maneuver, repeated without end.
She recalled vividly how Hervey, with the utmost solemnity, had avowed that the leader of the mustangs put "bad luck" on his bullets and that they had not seen the last of the horse.
To draw a bead on a horse was like gathering the life of a man into the sight of the rifle, yet they knew that a band of wildrunning mustangs is a perpetual menace.
Too many times they had seen mustangs taken and ridden and when they were not hopeless outlaws they became broken-spirited and useless, as though their strength lay in their freedom.
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