Mexican Raid In 1884 a cattleman and four cowboys from his ranch started to drive some fat cattle to market at Tombstone, Arizona.
We found the stock at a cattle ranch in Sonora, not far from Nacozari, and attacked the cowboys who had them in charge.
Without ado the lady of the ranch marched into the kitchen, followed by Mrs. Rover.
In the meanwhile Spouter had taken the Chinese cook to the front of the ranch house and then to an out-of-the-way corner where there was a large spider's web.
There off to the eastward you can see a bit of our range," said the ranch foreman, pointing with his finger.
Jack's idea of chartering a private car had fallen through because not all of the party to meet at Big Horn Ranch were to go at the same time.
Tom Rover and his wife were to come to the ranch two weeks later and bring with them May Powell and Ruth Stevenson.
The Bimbel ranch must be somewhere in this vicinity," declared Jack.
Jack had consulted the rude map given to him by the ranch foreman, but this did not seem to have upon it the forks of the trail.
Here there was a rough wagon road, and the foreman explained that it was used for hauling firewood to the ranch house and the bunkhouse.
Big Horn Ranch is located out in Montana, and it comprises a thousand acres or more--how large I don't exactly know.
There's a man named Jarley Bangs who owns a ranchon the other side of the river--a small place next to the one run by Bimbel.
Say, I've got an idea," announced Andy, when they came in sight of theranch house.
And I knew an outing on the ranch would do him a world of good.
As they rode up they saw Jarley Bangs come from the ranch house and move swiftly toward one of the stables where the horses were kept.
This was the only word of reproach that any member of the Rainbow ranch family made to Olive Van Mater during all the excitement and distress that came afterwards.
She hoped that Frank would not be angry with her for having refused to let him come to Rainbow Ranch for almost a year.
I can get one of the boys to ride over the ranch with me; perhaps Carlos would be willing to do that much!
It was several miles away and few persons from the Rainbow Ranch ever attempted walking so great a distance.
But when at the edge of the ranch the two men finally separated, Ralph Merrit went on alone to the nearest railroad station.
But we shall be leaving the ranch as soon as we drive through the gate.
For not since the very first year of Olive's life at Rainbow Ranch had they enjoyed this formerly well-loved entertainment.
It is hard to be right here on the ranch and have to pretend and pretend all the time that I feel toward him just as I used to when I was a little girl.
She had been so accustomed to just such work on the ranch from the time she was a small girl.
When would Ruth teach Jim that he was not to tease the Ranch girls before strangers just as if they were tiny children?
You seemed to like the ranch when we first came back and the work at the mine.
He has also an extensive cattle ranch on the Dismal river, sixty-five miles north of North Platte, his partner being Major Frank North, the old commander of the celebrated Pawnee scouts.
On the eighth day out we came to a farmer's house, or ranch, on the Republican River, where we stopped and rested for two days, and then went on to the ranch where Harrington had obtained the yoke of cattle.
The next day we took Bevins to Boggs' ranch on Picket Wire Creek, and there turned him over to the civil authorities, who put him in a log jail to await his trial.
But it was an exciting life, and the days sped rapidly by; in six weeks we found ourselves at our own ranch on Dismal river, the round-up having proved a great success, as we had found all our cattle and driven them home.
He is now at my ranch on the Dismal river, stone blind, but I shall keep him until he dies.
Footnote B: Major North is now my partner in a cattle ranch in Nebraska.
It's Vincenza, you know, the owner of that ranch where they had the shooting scrape the other day.
He probably took a considerable sum of money with him, for the heirs of Catalina Costello y Ugarte found the affairs of the deceased in a very tangled state, and the ranch was mortgaged for nearly half its value.
It was very comfortable in the living-room of the ranch house, where a fire crackled in the huge stone grate built by his grandfather's Indian artisans.
Below them swept green reaches of ranch land, dotted here and there with cattle and horses or the picturesque haciendas of old Spanish families.
Broderick and Windham, en route to the latter's ranch that afternoon, heard the Monumental bell toll slowly, solemnly.
Baldwin had a great ranchin the South, where he bred blooded horses.
Should I make no further claim upon your ranch than that which I possess, why may we not be neighbors--friends?
She rode all the way in from her mother's ranch to be my wife.
The entrance to her father's ranch barred by armed riders.
Didn't they take the San Antonio ranch in Oakland, defend it with cannon, and put old Peralta in jail for bothering them with his claims of ownership?
He had fallen into a habit of coming to the ranch when wearied by affairs of state.
Thus the Garvez rancho, at his death became the Windham ranch and there dwelt Dona Anita with her children Inez and Benito, for her husband, "Don Roberto" Windham lingered with an engineering expedition in the wilds of Oregon.
They had outfitted at Johnson's ranch near Sacramento and, encountered the first expedition returning with twenty-two starved wretches from the Donner Camp.
In the outdoor life and freedom from conventional cares--there has been a peculiar charm in ranch life.
Prairie fires will come when men are absent, and women must know how to set a back fire; and whether the ranch hands are near or far, stock must never be allowed to drive before a blizzard.
Jem Salter had heard voices like it, and cheerful slang phrases of the same order in his ranch days.
A sheep ranch is not amusing----" She stopped short and stood still for a moment.
We do not know that he will be shot," replied the ranch owner.
Back at the ranch the Mexican vaqueros lounged about, grumbling.
Eddie told them, and when they learned that the boss's daughter had been spirited away and that the ranch foreman was at the bottom of it the anger of the Americans rose to a dangerous pitch.
The ranch owner, now always fearful of attack, was upon the point of investigating when Grayson rode up to the veranda and dismounted.
He had heard the returning vaqueros ride into the ranch and noting that they brought no steers with them had come to the office to hear their story.
In the brief instant that Billy's watchful gaze left the figure of the ranch foreman the latter saw the opportunity he craved.
We'll have to make our fight from the upper windows," he explained to the ranch owner.
As the ranch foreman was saddling up with several of his men in the corral to give chase to the fugitive the boss strolled in and touched him on the arm.
Billy wondered what it could mean and as they approached the ranch and he discovered that it came from that direction he hastened their steps to even greater speed than before.
The ranch superintendent turned back to the paper in his hand which he had been discussing with his employer at the moment of the interruption.
Billy replied that they were not--merely looking for employment upon an American-owned ranch or in an American mine.
But four against one when all the advantages lie with the four are heavy odds, and when Grayson and Jose ran out to investigate, and the ranch foreman added his weight to that of the others Billy was finally subdued.
My stalwart hostess, entirely masculine to the eye from a little distance, strode up from the corral, waved a quirt at me in greeting, indicated by another gesture that she was dusty and tired, and vanished briskly within the ranch house.
VIII PETE'S B'OTHER-IN-LAW On the Arrowhead Ranch it was noon by the bell that Lew Wee loves to clang.
She went on to give me some more details of ranch life, and got so worked up about it that we settled things right there, she being a lady of swift decisions.
I parted swiftly from the hammock and made over the sun-scorched turf for the ranch house.
Pete, our Indian, was apparently the sole being on the ranch at that moment who was honestly earning his wage.
If one of them ranch hands had ever ogled me a second time I'd have known it all right, but I never caught one of the scoundrels at it.
We had never before rode on a horse ranch and we wished to be full fledged so we consented.
We followed salmon river through the seven devil mountains and left our horses at the XL, ranch and started for the Indian war.
Dusk was gathering as he pushed his way through the willows which fringed Piah Creek and came out into the clearing which held his ranch buildings.
You were not on the ranch for the purpose of jumping it at all.
But, anyway, he will feel the pressure before all is done with, and very likely he'll be only too glad to dispose of his ranch and say good-by to Wyoming when he is free to do as he pleases.
The ranch owner threw his arm fondly across the shoulders of his foreman.
Heading toward Crawling Water, the ranch owner rode rapidly over the sun-baked ground, too full of rage to take notice of anything except his own helplessness.
Wade described the appearance of the ranch house on the previous night, and Santry swore right manfully.
That was why the posse waited at his ranch after Santry had been caught.
I sure would like to go back to the ranch with you, but it's your own quarrel and I won't butt in.
He had not been satisfied, he said, to remain behind at the ranch and let Wade go to the timber tract alone, and so after a period of indecision he had followed him.
There was an immediate commotion in the ranch house.
We're going to run Moran and his gang off the ranch as soon as we can get there, and then we're going to run them out of the country.
Yes," Wade answered simply, as he watched three men from the Trowbridge ranch ride up to them.
With an ominous shake of his head, he went back on the ridge to his waiting horse, eager to bear word of the invasion to Santry, his ranch foreman and closest friend.
One of his men was stationed at the big pine, as he had told Dorothy, but all the others in his employ rode with him as swiftly as the best horses on his ranch could carry them, to the spot Santry had told him of.
Next afternoon the Consul shows up at our ranch as gay as an up-state deacon who's seeing the town incog.
He was in such a rush to get the ranch off his hands, though, that price didn't seem to figure much.
We fetches up at the swellest kind of a ranch you ever saw, iron gates to it like a storage warehouse, and behind that trees and bushes and lawn, like a slice out of Central Park.
Elmer, a bright, wide-awake young fellow, whose year out on a Canadian ranch belonging to an uncle was proving of considerable value to him in his experience as a scout.
The lessons he had learned when on that ranch in the Canadian Northwest were undoubtedly coming in "pat" just now; though really the trail was so very plain that even a novice might have followed it.
The cabin which Captain Dohm Shirril had erected on his ranch in upper Texas was long and low, as we have already intimated.
The Northern man felt an interest in the ranch business, but followed the counsel of the Texan, who warned him against going blindly into it.
Only about twelve hundred--that is, I had twelve hundred, when I started from the ranch two days ago, but we lost nearly a hundred yesterday.
He had longed for many months to get possession of that ranch but had never seriously thought of it as a possibility.
With the bridle reins in her left hand and her revolver in her right, she galloped off north toward Rogeen's ranch to consult Noah Ezekiel.
Bob turned angrily and walked swiftly back up the road, walked clear past his own ranchwithout noticing, and finally turned aside by a clump of cottonwood trees along the levee of the main irrigation canal.
He knew every step of his plan, for he had thought out fifty times just what he would do with that ranch if he had it.
Bob had been thinking of that ranch most of the time since he fixed the tractor.
On his way back to the ranch he stopped at the company's office in Calexico, and drew two hundred dollars more on the loan.
I'm sorry, but I can't get water to the Chandler ranch without the rest order it, too.
The last of November Bob went down to the Chandler ranch to give an account of the cotton picking.
Noah sat at theranch shack as dark came on and counted them as they went by down the road.
I want you to see what is the lowest dollar that will buy the Red Butte Ranch and its equipment.
The hill billy had gone to town early in the afternoon, and would return directly to the Chandler ranch where he was still on guard at nights.
Next morning when Bob returned to his own ranch he spoke to Noah Ezekiel Foster.
Bayard kept away from it because of that privacy with which he had come to look on the affair, and the girl knew that his presence there in town after Ann's departure for the ranch could mean only that a crisis had been reached.
Before it all, Bayard remained quietly firm and the incident ended by Lytton screaming that at daylight he would leave the ranch and die on the Yavapai road before he would submit to another day of life there.
Ann's appeal to Bruce for help when Ned led her away from the ranch had been made because she knew that real danger of some sort awaited Ned at the Sunset mine; she had not considered herself or her own safety at all.
Smoke rose from the chimney of the ranch house and through the kitchen doorway Bayard saw a woman pass with quick, intent stride.
He did not realize what going back to his ranch meant until he was actually on his way and then with every length of the road traveled, his apprehensions rose.
Ann was still at the Boyd ranch and old Hi was to drive her to her new home before noon.
One factor of the life at the ranch evidently worried Lytton, but of it he did not speak.
Obviously, they had stopped for the night and out in that country toward which they had started was only one ranch that would not take them miles out of their course.
Judson Weyl, who was to marry them, had been called away the day before but had given his word that he would leave Yavapai in time to reach the ranch with an ample margin, for Bruce insisted that there be no hitch in the plans.
He rode daily, he helped somewhat with the ranch work, his sleeps were long and untroubled.
At the end she cried and Bayard felt an unholy desire to ride to his Circle A ranch and do violence to the man who had functioned in this woman's life as a maker of misery.
He put the stallion into a high lope then, partly to relieve the stress of his thinking, partly because he suddenly realized that he had been away from the ranch many hours.
Of this fact Bayard made sure when, from his work in the little blacksmith shop, he saw a horseman riding toward the ranch from a wash that gouged down into Manzanita Valley.
Lytton's trail from the ranchled straight eastward, toward the Sunset group.
He cometh from the ranch country, where they breed bullth.
His experience on the plains of the new country up beyond the Saskatchewan River in Canada, where his father had been in charge of a relative's ranch and farm, was of considerable benefit to him now.
The first evenin' the peach ranch gent tells this yere Bark to corral the sheep, an' then come in for supper.
An hour goes by, an' the peach ranch party is about through his feed, when this yere Bark drifts up to the table.
Next mornin' the peach ranchparty goes out to throw loose them sheep.
The peach ranch party has a measly bunch of sheep.
Those people on the ranch by the bluff pressed us to come back again.
I believe I've kept pretty near the line I was told to take, but I'd be glad to see the first ranch in the Drummond district by supper time.
Kermode spent three or four pleasant days with his new friends, and when he left the ranch one morning, leading two strong horses, Helen Foster walked with him some distance up the valley.
What did you mean when you said we should reach your ranch in three hours, if we had good luck?
Mrs. Hammond, Rhoda's mother, had entertained the girls a couple of years previous to the present story, on the Hammond ranch in the West.
And he went with us to Rose Ranch a few summers ago and met us in London with Grace's mother and dad last year.
She folded the telegram slowly and thoughtfully, thinking of the struggle that was going on at Rose Ranch and remembering her own concern years back over her own mother's health.
As we rode up to the veranda of the low-roofed ranch house Mr. and Mrs. Hammond stood there on the porch waiting for us.
Those who have read "Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch or The Old Mexican's Treasure" will remember Mrs. Hammond too and remember well her first meeting with the girls.
All had left Rose Ranch with a very warm feeling for Mrs. Hammond and they were all better girls for having met her.
At the Ranchof Dom Francisco, on the Road to Oeiras, in the Province of Ceara, Brazil.
A New York society girl buys a ranch which becomes the center of frontier warfare.
In the persecution of Jane Withersteen, a rich ranch owner, we are permitted to see the methods employed by the invisible hand of the Mormon Church to break her will.
Just now we were headed for the ranch of Dom Francisco.
SIX STAR RANCH A wholesome story of a club of six girls and their summer on Six Star Ranch.
A story of love and adventure on a ranch in California.
A story of a mountain ranch and of a man's hard fight on the uphill road to manliness.
A New Mexico ranch story of mystery and adventure.
Perhaps a person can have a minute or two of peace and comfort on this ranch now.
I've located the ranch where they've been taking those horses to that they stole.
Johnny was reminding her of the very beginning of their serial quarrel, when he had overheard her telling a girl guest at the ranch that Johnny Jewel was "only one of my father's hired men.
The Selmer Stock Company had other ranches where they raised other animals, but the Rolling R raised horses almost exclusively, the few hundred head of cattle not being counted as a real ranch industry, but rather an incidental by-product.
They seemed to Mary V to be precious minutes, although they would otherwise have been spent in the wearisome task of waiting until the ranch was asleep.
He stayed at theranch all night, mostly in the room with Johnny.
The speaker at the ranch would assure him that nothing had been left there for him, and the ceremony would be over.
If he thought he was the only person at the Rolling R ranch who could write poetry, it would be a real kindness to show him his mistake.
Mary V walked on, past the bunk house and across the narrow flat opposite the corrals and up on the first bench of the bluff that sheltered the ranch buildings from the worst of the desert winds.
