![]() ![]() As Papa pointed out the day the men talked over making the drive, we had plenty of grass, wood, and water. We lived then in a new country and a good one. ![]() This was to get "cash money," a thing that all Texans were short of in those years right after the Civil War. Anyhow, it was the year that Papa and a bunch of other Salt Licks settlers formed a "pool herd" of their little separate bunches of steers and trailed them to the new cattle market at Abilene, Kansas. He came in the late 1860's, the best I remember. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called "yeller" in those days, The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he let out came closer to being a yell than a bark. ![]()
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