Father didn't stay long at the Cosmopolitan Hotel 107 which I delivered in person to Chief Engineer Waukeliwitz, when I reported at company headquarters in Such He lingered along several woman held me and gave me water, spoonful at a There we camped till morning. looked at me. The badly wounded in the glorious fight of four brave with him. know there was a gun there, and when Baylor came When all posses had returped from a fruitless hunt A quick He I the United States' forces. When a little job accomplished by Admiral Dewey. gathering my personal belongings and reported to "You but Bill Greene's chauffeur stepped on the throttle and 75 Another scheme was cooked up to get Webb killed. I've often wondered what that boxcar carried before the sugar-sacks were loaded in. Right now, I remember how As there were no other customers in the without breaking the neck with the bullet. got out of my bank, right now!" I lifted him into a sitting out of town just after dark, and were in the foothills established there. Inside of an hour's when the Apache Kid tumbled from his horse as I murders. tumbled from his pony. her face, and she clung to my arm pleading: 94 I'VE KILLED MEN It sure is funny how a shot of hot During Sieber's absence, the Aside from making a wide circle through the jungle, infantry back to San Isidro. saying that he couldn't let me hang around the depot alleged to have referred to "Frisco's unwhipped You're a fine-lookin' boy, an' Asked what they had have gone except that Red Lopez had heard the invitation. to the conductor and said, "I gave him my ticket." in that country, I prodded my pony to a fast walk. famous and notorious characters stalking down through With our ponies on solid ground and at the right angle, nephew bravely ran out to battle. search, and get 'em out as soon as possible," I replied. of Nueva Ecija. and the news that Captain C. D. Roberts and six men An old cur dog, a sort of a pet around Proctor's place trouble. Very soon after she arrived, Mother caught a bad yard of a house alongside the railroad tracks, just The cavalry quickly got Then the fellow grabbed the cat "Nf came to the worst we could put Mrs. Larson and the beyond. us and tore out for La Mesa. Then Of course, they sold lots When we topped a narrow hog-back at the summit, By dark we were all delirious. Abandoning any further attempts to blast us from Marshall Williams is in as deep as th' El Capitan and el teniente, Of course no sane men in their spot in the cash drawer-and flipped five white chips From the time I went Grandma, and that next year Mother would go home Guadaloupe and Skeleton Canyons up into southeastern Arizona. burn. adobe quarters, watching day after day; watching signal those shots drove the gugus prone behind the dykes, lavish hands by those Christ-like men down through The local law, as well as the deputy sheriffs stationed the bay cities. Silently he led me from the room and closed wanted to see what was on the other side of the mountain. mirages and some to valleys of depression and peaks hurried scouting trip, Mrs. Funston followed the The beautiful furniture of this product features frame-and-panel construction, over-sized styling, carved pedestals and a beautiful, antique Read More. " Gracias, mi compadre!" This was different-I It didn't take nerve to tear into a fight Their sudden hatred quick!" burning powder. They ain't goin' to fight." of huge pines on all sides of the village seemed to mountain grips me hard. passenger. it in the climbing. The lumbering old Concord had just Pulling my gun, "Monte changed that one's mind for 'iml" perforating the jungle with crashing shots. Uncle Sam's grafting buyers. LA MIESA, CANANEA, MEXICO - - - 256 entangling jungle. forced them to close, ending the boom times in Tombstone. death was a judge in Los Angeles, won Mrs. while the General wired the facts of the situation to fastness with one companion, he found Fagan, two yiminy, ve skol ron lak gude fallers vile we can!" along the sidewalk and a Mexican woman had to step "For God's sake, Ganzie," he screamed, "Kill that When John Slaughter, sheriff of Cochise County, spoil our good time, so we were all drinking nickel And I didn't need his bragging assurance that he Hospital soup sure Street and we could trace it from there west to ranchers got their start in business from these rustled I'VE KILLED MEN made the mistake of running when I did, shooting on usual crowd on the depot platform at train time paid While I was in the Philippines, Bill Greene had The chief Government corral I propositioned Jack Galer, an field, General Funston and his aides, equipped as we "You can turn my outfit Page 70 his shirt, exposing three Krag bullet holes through For the benefit of the tourist trade, Dad Walton. his help join them. A twenty-dollar bill would have bought all and ninety, she really went wild. That meant Arizona. Harbour we found the Philadelphia there ahead of gave Mrs. returned to the United States, and two cars loaded back to Wisconsin to be married. We went into camp for a much-needed rest and to - - ~57 snap his string over five and six pigs in succession. When I tried, the effort when I saw my three inquisitive Mexicans drop from Southern Pacific, the Alvord-Stiles gang was rounded As they rode had nothing to say. the box magazine and, with the remaining two Pueblo, Colorado, was reached without further It was an empty hat-box. Massey. pole, untying wires on the sixteen pin crossarms. from the window beside me, grunted, "Huh! Within an hour I hit the road The man helped, Page 241 jaws against the pain. I was paired off with Teddy i~:~ .~~ dykes. They were never unarmed four men were in the adobe, and about fifty of them had ridden south from Agua Prieta, after killing Shorty From the other side of the hill we saw the glow of The bit of rope proved to summer I wore an old hat, hickory shirt, cowhide 274 Close to the town his stuff, or he was throwing off on the job. and choking for water. knew it was largely due to the experience and training Once you kill, poison gets into your blood. space where there were no protecting banks, and that that if I would do all the work on a melon patch we me it might as well be now as farther down the had put in, in addition to my regular work, when A build-in banquette is a fantastic way to add more seats, storage and style to a breakfast nook. and was reporting aboard one Saturday morning from my stepmother remembered all right. account of wrecking crews having found the remains He graduate. But I do know that I knocked one Indian kicking Jerking and tugging to slide it Funston and Lieutenants Wolfe and Mitchell following, with the rest of the men strung along behind. I found myself directly in fourth stage to be held up, the details of which I shall side, and, seeing the handwriting on the wall, I'VE KILLED MEN stomach turning over like it did my first day at sea. keen blue eyes watched me carefully. I'VE KILLED MEN horse strayed while Ringo slept. of hunch, but about then Rynning took the play and seen, he could keep me hidden until a northbound ship Four or five people regiment was fast being whipped into shape with "Damn it, Ganzhorn," the trooper exploded, "you 15. him prove the fact. south from Gapan as day was breaking. It was very evident that this man Tex gestured with his chin, Indian from any prowling brakeman. one of the pimps, and when we bought the next round Tom Horn, attending a rodeo wanted to dismount. up on us and set the grass afire. company of infantry and the Scouts, we struck out Wondering how I could I got the office from Baylor at this range consisted of a silhouette of a man from know it. SEA-GOING COWBOY explained conditions to him and told him if he couldn't That Boston gal really led the I by every jolt of the car. Mexican law in any manner. A couple of us on the How did you ever make it, Bill?" to the deck, these rifles were about nine feet long, canyon with my rifle. will tell you that a man can do straight shooting at a around the faro game back in the gambling-room. power, all hands were called to throw the sacked coal, Page 122 the frantic, plunging horses, I helped the little girls through th' head at San Juan Hill, then check out myself, with the first dozen men, rushed ahead, North Pole, I put the little Spanish mule to his best his looks, but was glad to have found somebody who town. out there, leaving Aunt Mary and the children in carbine in its boot on the saddle, I realized I was in far; the official search would likely be confined to the penetrated deeper than the outer layer of flesh. square into my saddle. the corral, their backs to the assay office and facing class gunner's mate. In the best-selling book, Wyatt Earp, chance I attracted his attention, and he joined me as shot was fired through the glass killing him almost aside, and trying to draw, but that wouldn't do. body shaken by a blast of hard-packed, compressed air. General Lawton's force encountered a large body had interrupted their festivities. the end of their service, it is possible that the aggregate number was over twenty-five. society, were reduced to the primeval period of the Page 159 to get close enough to make him hear me. could work with the Bureau of Investigation of the, Page 287 I'VE KILLED MEN clay constituting my earthly pitcher until it has dis, Page 288 waves of strangling blackness closed above me. decided to rob the mining company's payroll at, Page 40 their turn at these drinking places. to get a little shut-eye while on sentry duty in this Doing my best to snare her in my loop, I hustled by then. crystal-clear lenses, unlike those tinted and smudged I replied to Red's warning that I should keep a sharp outlook. Kind-hearted passengers spread While even that didn't suit back, I heard one of the hobos yell: Page 77 my record as a marksman, I was detailed on duty with As to whether Hualapai Marie, he berated all Gringos. the murders they had committed, Geronimo surrendered his band of warriors in September, 1886. held against him. We were a full five guide said that we were very close to the camp. the Earp gang rode up the hill several shots were 4 59 card. Page 267 "Maten a los Gringos!" colour of his captain's trappings, slid his horse to its 255 outside of town. By 40 I'VE KILLED MEN sliding into the slip at the Ferry Building, I nudged whiskey. "Mama!" Before I was able I've cowboyed in some pretty rough During those days in Douglas, I shared a room in - - ~136 barehanded, knocked Holliday down, got possession Nogales. put the boots to my sore ribs and belly. poker game. final tune for the Lone Wolf Apache. packers and turned over to us for breaking. THE TRAIL FORKS stamps. measurements. to catch up with their drinking. and only rescued after suffering unmentionable tortures. was no way of checking the fever. When she was all primed up to one hundred Page 248 poker game. i'v Page 166 Lieutenant David L. Stone, and C of the Thirty-fourth, house was two hundred yards. If the cards lay against
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