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Title: Ranching, Sport and Travel

Author: Thomas Carson

Release Date: January 16, 2007 [EBook #20382]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ONE OF THE "BOYS."

(Portrait. See p. 125.)

Frontispiece.]

RANCHING, SPORT AND TRAVEL

BY

THOMAS CARSON, F.R.G.S.

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

T. FISHER UNWIN

LONDON LEIPSIC
Adelphi Terrace Inselstrasse 20

1911

[_All Rights Reserved_]

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This book is somewhat in the nature of an autobiography, covering as it
does almost the whole of the Author's life. The main portion of the
volume is devoted to cattle ranching in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
The Author has also included a record of his travels abroad, which he
hopes will prove to be not uninteresting; and a chapter devoted to a
description of tea planting in India.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. TEA PLANTING 13

In Cachar--Apprenticeship--Tea Planting described--Polo
--In Sylhet--Pilgrims at Sacred Pool--Wild
Game--Amusements--Rainfall--Return to Cachar--Scottpore
--Snakes--A Haunted Tree--Hill Tribes--Selecting
a Location--Return to England.

II. CATTLE RANCHING IN ARIZONA 42

Leave for United States of America--Iowa--New
Mexico--Real Estate Speculation--Gambling--Billy
the Kid--Start Ranching in Arizona--Description of
Country--Apache and other Indians--Fauna--Branding
Cattle--Ranch Notes--Mexicans--Politics--Summer
Camp--Winter Camp--Fishing and
Shooting--Indian Troubles.

III. CATTLE RANCHING IN ARIZONA (_continued_) 81

The Cowboy--Accoutrements and Weapons--Desert
Plants--Politics and Perjury--Mavericks--Mormons--Bog
Riding.

IV. ODDS AND ENDS