But stop and think Bob; what d'ye expect takes these cattle-rustlers over this way right now, headed straight for the canyons of Thunder Mountain?
Besides, we're not dead sure, you know, that therustlers have really got a camp around these diggings.
Not to speak of Indians, or Mexican rustlers looking for a chance to drop down on some peaceful ranch, and carry off a bunch of long horns; eh, Frank?
Perhaps it may be one of the rustlers coming down to interview him," said Bob.
If they knew Mendoza and his rustlers were hiding somewhere about this place they'd comb the whole mountain range so they could run him to earth.
But you see, we didn't know whether we were going to be held up byrustlers or Indians.
Well, how are the noble warriors and the desperate cattle rustlers this morning?
When he tells about living on a ranch and herding cattle and breaking bronchos and chasing rustlers and catching horse thieves, he gives me a cramp.
Many a time and oft has he boasted of what he has done to cattle rustlers like us.
With the Rustlers prepared for the move, it was blocked and the ball was "down.
Begin the game, the Rustlers to have the ball," called Lieutenant-Commander Havens.
The Navy line hit the Rustlers hard and tried to bump through.
As Navy andRustlers again collided in the fray, Jetson watched Dave's work narrowly, furiously.
At the whistle-blast the Rustlerskicked it off--a beautiful, long, arching curve.
Then the Navy took the ball and promptly enough the Rustlers came back with it, Jetson carrying.
We're after the rustlersright quick," went on Bud.
For a few minutes after the pursuit became close, the rustlers made an attempt to get the cattle into one of the many small valleys with which the country around there abounded.
Rustlers just cut out a bunch at North Station and they're hazing 'em off!
This section is pretty rough, an' them rustlers won't be able to make any kind of speed with th' cattle.
Many of the cattle were in woeful shape, and all suffered from lack of water, since the rustlers had driven them so hard, endeavoring to get far away with them as soon as possible that they had not stopped to water them.
The stolen cattle had been recovered, in as good condition as could be hoped for, and the rustlers had been driven off, with the exception of the wounded one.
This was not as serious as it sounds, for the shots were not to be directed at the rustlers but fired in the air to startle the cattle.
Yes, for we're on the trail almost as soon as the rustlers took it," said Bud.
By this time, of course, the rustlers knew they were in danger not only of losing their ill-gotten cattle, but of losing their own freedom and perhaps their lives.
There the news of the successful chase after the rustlers was received with satisfaction, and Mr. Merkel said he hoped it would be a lesson to other thieves.
And indeed the boy ranchers were on the trail, riding hard; for they were some miles from where the raid had taken place, and they knew the rustlers would not spare the cattle they were driving away.
It was comparatively easy to pick up the trail left by the rustlers and soon our friends were riding after them, though of course several hours behind them.
Four cattle-lifting rustlers held up Clearwater Creek, and we're going south for the next post to head them off from the boundary.
Then, recalling what Sergeant Macfarlane had said, I knew that while the police rode hot-foot toward the boundary the rustlers had doubled on their tracks to hold up Carrington Manor.
Now, there are two of Grier's troopers camping in a bluff a league back to watch the trail, and if I could only bring them up before the rustlers go, we ought to get one or two of them.
The rustlers are there for the money and aren't anxious for trouble, though, if it's necessary, they are quite willing to make it.
Soon after the last snow fell, two rustlers came up this trail--there were more of them, but they stayed down by the big one.
Still," Carrie persisted, "you know you first quarrelled with the rustlers because you were angry with me.
Would you like them to fancy the rustlers had bought me over, or made me afraid of them?
You have driven out the rustlers and you have saved your wheat.
Ah," said Carrie, "you think the rustlers might try again?
He and his companions had just decided that Leland's informant had deceived him, or that the rustlers had gone another way, after all, when a weird figure moved out of the gloom beneath the bluff.
Only that we had the rustlers round next day, and I've a kind of notion my colts went then.
One of your friends, perhaps a boy who'd worked for you, gave us the office at sun-up, and we started as soon as we heard what the rustlers meant to do.
Each of them knew precisely what was expected of him, and the only uncertainty was whether the rustlers were coming, and if so, how many there would be of them.
You feel tolerably satisfied that the rustlers will make another attempt?
You certainly can afford to lose a horse or two, and the rustlers are the kind of people it is just as well to keep on good terms with.
Leland knew he had not done with the rustlers yet, and it was advisable to take due precautions.
In the meanwhile one of the rustlers had slipped his hand inside his furs; but Leland, who noticed it, made a little gesture.
Now, the Sergeant knows just how I stand with the rustlers though he can fasten no charge on me, and he will have several of his troopers looking out for me.
It's quite likely he'll tell you nothing, and you will not arrest him, but bearing in mind that every minute he spends there will be a loss to the rustlers you'll keep him as long as you can.
He had, however, been taught to think for himself swiftly and shrewdly from his boyhood up, and realized instinctively that if he escaped scathless the ringing of the rifle would warn the rustlers who he surmised were close behind.
Nemesis was as sure to follow at the hands of the fellowship of rustlers as ever it was at the hands of the Secret Tribunal of old.
I think there are many desperate men among the rustlers who would not hesitate to kill either Paul Langford or Richard Gordon since these prosecutions have begun.
They say that his failures encourage the rustlers more than an inactive policy would.
Knowing that Jesse Black was once more at liberty, fully realizing of what vast import to the State would be Williston's testimony when the rustlers should be brought to trial, he had sat stupidly back and done nothing.
Many believed him to be the animating mind of a notorious gang of horse thieves and cattle rustlers that had been operating west of the river for several years.
On the other hand was the vicious combination of the boldness, cunning, and greed of the cattle rustlers who harassed all the range country of the Dakotas and Nebraska.
The only option left them would be to come to close quarters with the rustlers or to limp back home discouraged and discredited.
Jack sat down on a rock while the rustlers retired and discussed the situation.
Since he knew that the rustlers were away from their camp, the Ranger did not feel the need of taking such elaborate precautions against discovery during the return journey.
The rustlers rode in pairs, Homer Dinsmore and Overstreet in the rear.
Ain't you got better sense than to trail rustlers with no weapon but a Sunday-School text?
They spoke incidentally of the Dinsmore gang, a band of rustlersoperating in No Man's Land.
The foreman and the sheepman took turns keeping vigil; and on the other side of the fire sat one of the rustlers in silent watchfulness.
She made them talk of life on the open range, of rustlers and those who lived outside the law in the upper Shoshone country, of the deadly war waging between the cattle and sheep industries.
Plainly she looked on him as no better than one of the ordinary rustlers of the Falling Wall country.
He intimated that the scheme was to get the rustlers all together and finish them in a bunch.
These rustlers here," he looked toward Stone and Van Horn, "won't be able to carry messages for awhile.
Just the same, Jim," muttered Van Horn, "the rustlers have got to go.
But the four named were the men to whom the lesser rustlers of the park looked; the men whose exploits they imitated, and these were the men on whose heads a price had, in effect, been set.
There are some of the rustlers I'd trust as far as I would some of the raiders," she rejoined coolly.
He was at bay in a bed of boulders, so well covered by the big rocks that the rustlers could not easily get at him.
His arm rose and fell in the mêlée as the drive of the rustlers swept him to and fro.
It was a time and place for rustlers and horse-thieves to flourish at the expense of honest settlers.
The rustlers glowered at Elder's party, but offered no comment other than some sneering laughter and ribald whispering.
Bern, don't risk it now--when the rustlers are in such shooting mood.
Rustlers are a lazy set when they're not on the ride.
If those riders were not rustlers he had forgotten how rustlers looked and rode.
But to Venters it seemed extraordinary that the power which had called in these riders had left so many cattle to be driven by rustlers and harried by wolves.
I didn't hear their names, but I heard they was handy men with guns an' they looked more like rustlers than riders.
Venters doubted that they were therustlers who had driven the red herd.
Venters satisfied himself that the rustlers had not deviated from their usual course, and then he turned at right angles off the cattle trail and made for the head of the pass.
When the wind blows a gale in the caves it makes what the rustlerscall Oldring's knell.
The rustlershad come from the northwest side of the oval.
It was not improbable that among Oldring's rustlers there was one who shared Lassiter's gift for trailing.
Afraid of the long rifle--a burdensome weapon seldom carried by rustlers or riders--they had been put to rout.
Them rustlers is gettin' to be pretty slick, ain't they?
I've come in to tell you that I saw some rustlers workin' on the herd yesterday," he said.
Seems as if they're trustin' to luck that rustlers won't work on them.
Out in Montana, Harfy, that escutcheon means a lot--to stock rustlers and brand-blotters and oil share fakers.
And whisper of poplars four"--the branches of two staunch old rustlers among the pines made silver lace of the moonlight just outside the wall.
There was a suspicion that rustlers had been at work, but Bud decided the animal had been separated from its mother and the main herd, and had been pulled down by coyotes.
That it was rustlers from Double Z who had tried to drive off some of the boy ranchers' cattle was not doubted, the finding of the branding iron being regarded as telltale evidence.
And the rustlers might as well drive off our stock, if we don't soon get this water to running again.
The veteran cow puncher pointed out where the rustlers had ridden into the valley, over a pass that crossed a low mountain range, which connected, in a fashion, Buffalo Ridge and Snake Mountain.
Looks like you had an idea it might be one of them rustlers that made trouble when you fellers was here before!
Then, with yells of defiance, and before our boys could come close enough to recognize any of the raiders, the rustlers galloped off, not having succeeded in driving away any cattle.
I heard you'd had trouble with rustlers before I came, so I wasn't takin' any chances.
So promptly had the boys of Flume Valley ridden out to repell the raid that the rustlers had no time to stampede the cattle, and cut out some to drive away.
But though Bud thus indicated the presence of the rustlers it was not a very clear sight of them that he or his companions had.
Then it opened suddenly into a wider valley and Chuck looked down on the hiding place of the rustlers of the Creeping Shadows.
The rustlers whirled around the cattle, keeping them in a compact mass as they neared the train.
It's pretty evident that the rustlers captured Chuck and forced him to go with them," he said.
Seems like these two outfits ought to forget any past troubles and realize that through a clever trick the rustlers almost had them fighting each other to death.
They were a hard riding lot, every one of them capable of a good fight and Slim knew that the rustlers were going to be in for some dangerous hours before many more days passed.
It was a cattleman's paradise and Slim, as he appraised the worth of the valley, could realize why rustlers would make a bold bid to steal the possessions of Adam Marks and take the valley for their own.
While the train crew unloaded the portable chute, the rustlers drove the cattle nearer.
Why, the Box B or the Double O would never let rustlers drive a herd across their range.
The rustlers were coming, driving the stolen cattle leisurely, for there was ample time before the freight arrived.
There was a fair chance that Cook, ridden by fear, would lead him to the mountain hideout of the rustlers and there Slim felt that he would find Chuck.
If I get the breaks, I'll turn up some valuable clues on the rustlers and also find Chuck.
The rustlers must have reached him after they had wounded him and taken the money.
The rustlers heard the whistle and started the cattle moving toward the tracks.
For a while it looked like we would be cleaned out, but with a couple of good riders who've got plenty of nerve and aren't afraid of a struggle, we'll fight this gang of rustlers to the end.
It was little wonder rustlers would take extreme risks to get such stock as grazed on the rolling acres of the Marks' ranch.
I'm inclined to believe someone on the ranch is tipping the rustlers off to every move.
This order leaves a cattle owner without protection against the horde of rustlers who infest the state.
For an instant the light from the lantern disappeared, and then they saw it again as it bobbed toward the open where the herd had been when the rustlers had struck.
It seemed to Ruth that the fight between the Circle L men and the rustlers had made the latter cautious; and that even Warden had decided that discretion was necessary.
He rode with Lawler to the scene of the fight, and showed him where the Circle L outfit had brought the rustlers to bay.
But it was pretty hard to guess off-hand who the rustlers might be.
We passed the little canons fenced off by the rustlersas corrals into which to shunt from the herds their choice of beeves.
There couldn't be much doubt that cattle rustlerswas at work.
I'm looking for a man with sand enough and sabe of the country enough to lead a posse after cattle-rustlers into the border country.
And as the boy ranchers and their friends rode on into the vast, natural, volcanic bowl, and were able to take note of their foes, they saw that the rustlers outnumbered them two to one.
But the rustlers were not going to give up without a sharp fight.
Then it was the water fight in the mysterious tunnel, and now it's the rustlers after our cattle.
Bud, toward sundown, when the rustlers had been caught, disarmed and corraled under guard.
For while some of the rustlers were holding Bud and his band in check behind the rocks, and while others were fighting Slim and his cowboys, still others were driving the cattle toward the opening in the old volcano bowl.
Rustlers drive 'em all 'way, while you shootin' off there!
The cattle of the boy ranchers were saved, and the rustlers captured.
The cattle first stolen by the rustlers were not recovered, but it was found that when they seemed they had been spirited off in an airship they had been merely back-tracked and hidden until an opportune time to dispose of them.
By all the jack rabbits that ever jumped we've got the rustlers now!
As for an object, if the fire had stampeded the cattle it would have given some bunch of Greasers orrustlers a chance to get away with a few steers.
If there was a place like that, back where we discovered we were in a maze, it would have been easy enough for the rustlers to have driven the cattle through, one at a time," observed Nort.
Maybe rustlershave used this for a hiding place," was Dick's nest remark.
If we could 'a' found out what caused the deaths it would have been easy to stop it--whether it was Indians, rustlers or some disease.
Fancy rustlers being so up to date as to use the tactics of chemical warfare.
If they're rustlers why did they just hold Bud a prisoner a while and then light out and not take any stock?
But, as I was saying, there are no rustlers hereabouts.
I'll show you where the rustlers used to work, when we get further along on the trail.
We were sitting by the camp fire, and Curley Adams was telling about the time he was mixed up with the rustlers on the Colorado.
In many communities these clashes between rival interests had furnished opportunity for rustlers to build up in power and practically take the range.
He went outside and mounted as the five rustlers swung to their saddles.
The majority of the rustlers took to the stockade.
The prisoner did not need to be told that this inaccessible country was the lurking place of the rustlers who had preyed so long upon the Malpais district.
They were left by one of the rustlers operating in this vicinity.
If you'll tell me the man who had it in his pocket yesterday when he left-home, I'll tell you who one of the Malpais rustlers is.
If he could hold the rustlers for ten minutes more they would be caught like rats in a trap.
They'll be some glad, I shouldn't wonder, at making a gather that cleans out the worst bunch of cutthroats and rustlersin the Malpais.
Maybe the rustlers were scared off just before I happened on it.
I reckon the rustlers must have heard me coming and drove the calf away just before I arrived.
Once Brill had led the pursuit of the rustlers and had come back furious from a long futile chase.
He had not seen Brad when he disappeared into the mesquite, and he supposed all of the rustlers were still in the Pass five hundred feet below him.
And all the time been playing himself for the leader of us fellows that are against the rustlers and that Bear Creek outfit," continued Jim bitterly.
They were either small cattle owners themselves or range riders whose living depended on the business, and during the past two years a band of rustlers had operated so boldly as to have wiped out the profits of some of the ranchers.
He didn't come here declaring his intentions because he knew there would be nothing doing if the rustlers knew he was in the neighborhood.
Buck Weaver told me he came on a dead cow of his just after the rustlershad left.
The six men immediately in their rear were to open out and ride for the encompassing fringe of woods, lest any of the rustlers should make for escape that way.
Well, late last night, Elia Marsham came to me with a yarn about a hollow in the hills, where he said he'd seen the rustlers at work.
He knew well enough that cattle rustlers preferred to use established brands of distant ranches when it was necessary to hold stolen cattle in hiding before deporting them from the district.
Sandy McIntosh cursed the rustlers in the broadest Scotch, and set out to scour the country with his boys.
He guessed he see the rustlers at work, but didn't rec'nize 'em.
I guessed if any of the rustlerswere liable to hit the trail, it 'ud be somewhere around this river.
Haven't you sense enough to see that these rustlers will rub you out in two twitches of a dead lamb's tail if they've made up their minds that you are the High Line main guy and the only one?
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