In the Bosom of the Comanches by Theodore Adolphus Babb

Author:Theodore Adolphus Babb [Babb, Theodore Adolphus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-05-15T22:00:00+00:00

Comanche Medicine Man and Tepee.

Thus I was once more given my liberty to set out and do for myself. My brother, H. C. Babb, was working with cattle on the range for Dan Waggoner. I joined my brother in this work in 1870. In 1871 Joe Loving made a deal with Mr. Waggoner to take charge and handle the cattle for a period of five years on the shares. I was engaged by Mr. Loving, and continued with the outfit. We had considerable trouble with the Indians, who would break in now and then and steal our horses. In the Fall of 1871 Joe Loving took me and two more hands and joining Frank Mull of Parker County with four hands, whose names were John and Henry Strickland, Dave and Mat Loftin, together with pack horses and four extra saddle horses each, we started for a round-up of Jack and Palo Pinto Counties. We gathered all the big early calves we could find that were not marked or branded. We took in the mothers of some of the calves and some we did not. When we did not want the mother cows we cut them back, and if they returned we shot them in the nose or punched them. In this manner we gathered about five hundred “mavericks”, and drove them to the ranch in Wise County, where we marked and branded them, putting on the marks and brands of Mr. Waggoner and Mr. Mull. Having finished this job, Joe Loving took an outfit and went in below Decatur and brought back all the big calves he could see or get, regardless of who owned them. Very soon the citizens discovered their calves were gone and learned who had gotten them, and so angry were they that there was talk of mobbing Mr. Waggoner, who knew nothing whatever of this stealing of cattle. Mr. Waggoner immediately bought out the interest of Joe Loving and made just and satisfactory settlement with the rightful owners of the stolen cattle. By way of digression I should say that in the early days of the cattle industry unbranded cattle belonged to the outfits who could get to them first and then have the means in the way of enough fighting men to hold and keep them. After such a fashion many of the great herds and fortunes in cattle were started and reinforced from time to time.

In 1872 Mr. Waggoner decided to move his cattle to the far West and this he did by driving to Clay and Wichita Counties and locating there. I went with the second herd, and we arrived at Big Wichita river just below the present city of Wichita Falls, October 10th, 1872. I remained with the cattle the winter that followed and was assisted by my brother H. C. Babb, and cousin, Tom Babb, Sam Merrick, and Jim Barrenton, half-breed Cherokee Indian. During the winter the cattle gave us but little trouble, as grass and water were everywhere plentiful. There was not then a wire fence between Red river and the Gulf of Mexico.

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