had migrated from Texas, and had not yet forgotten my mind I headed West, tramping from farm to corral, the McLowerys and Billy Clanton could and boil, old Judge Ferguson prepared a long speech for tunnel. Beehive mine. I had already been shot through the right foot and to bite into red meat. Among the prosecuting witnesses were Indians named Constant-Bread, No-GoodSay-A and Curly, the Indian who had really shot we shall be partners, show me what you got-" back in Tucson. Their sudden hatred was too sick to do much explaining, and I went downstairs into the bar-room to ask the bartender how but she was my mother! towering pines on either side, like a path cut through Llewellin The fight had lasted not over five minutes, but an exciting period of my life. of lead from Poco's arm and abdomen, Hartzell and I Discover more about the small businesses partnering with Amazon and Amazons commitment to empowering them. 278 210 When we topped a narrow hog-back at the summit, to time, after they had been abandoned, and report the and sauntered out the front door. My first fear was that Red's two friends would In the spring of 1891 my grandmother came from However, the pastor man, straight as an Indian, with snow-white hair. Suddenly his eyes pinched to slits. On July 22 we caught up with Pablo Tecson. Del was in no sense of the ship, enabling tugs to pull her off the reef. Soon sheets of fire Page 144 Hudspeth, Baylor and I decided to take the Jew's ::::;:I John Ringo and Curly Bill, whose real I was disappointed at the way things were going, while the reckless, fighting half of me sought and Following the throngs fighting their way to the north occasion. CHAPTER XII The empty bamboo shacks faced .,' A 8,: ' ': ' X,~:::. kill the fellow in self-defence. at a set-up between stacks of grain, so that " pitchers" I talked with General danger and the ever-present fear of the Apache scalping wrapped a picket-rope around my hips, crossing it I could even then begin to describe the horrible details too much difference between the red-tape in the Bojorques thought that I had hit the THE END OF THE EARPS 37 Bacon, hardtack and black coffee was 20o7 \9t-7, Page General Funston, in charge of all the Bantering each other encouragingly, we fired in Spurring along the ravine to the right, we Scouts to safety. We had saved about seventeen hundred dollars, Mex. saloon. " others whose business interests were permanently One little While still in Honolulu, I learned from my father's After selling his ranch, oxen, a policeman on each side of each one of us, stretching Dropping forward on to hands and toes, I jerked Little quivers of expectation tingled While gambling was perfectly legitimate, Dad wouldn't listen to that. run of Border Mexicans returned that hatred, and HAND OF DESTINY 243 " Page 260 He missed. While I spoke Morales fondled his curled moustache, The white-clad figure grabbed its rear with both 188 lai~~i~::"::::::i~:jg:ii:.j_ -:: the gugus know I was still on the job, but my rifle with us he generally kept pretty close to me. of that name about three kilometres distant. dead, literally fried to a crisp where he had grounded Page 183 to Nogales. Located nine miles As the road within a mile or two, I met a vaquero whose squeezed the trigger. day's work with him, but the horror of death sneaking Through a wide gap Men"-bothered me at first. Uncle Alf had warned him. Here was life in shotguns herded me into the chain-gang. 112 I'VE KILLED MEN Mott over a land allotment, this Apache had killed Prieto made a rush for him, but I think she was a her face, and she clung to my arm pleading: men, women and children with unmentionable shattered. the men coming up the gangway from the liberty boats, aside, and trying to draw, but that wouldn't do. named Lloyd entered and began shooting up the I smelled trouble and nudged Murphy. at a fourteen-inch target at one hundred and fifty feet, Alf the woman, and that he, Leslie, had been forced to made out the rock less than fifty feet ahead, but no McLowery, quiet and steady and a crack roper; Frank a complete surprise attack. the protection of our barricade we watched four horsemen pick their way down the trail. By my birthday the Scouts had been increased to Wyatt nodded, and he and Virgil walked out The first Tombstone stage robbery happened in the Seeing no pigs or chickens scratching around nor with powder smoke and blood through which I watched of us would snub the ropes around trees and ease out of town just after dark, and were in the foothills fleeing men escape tons of falling death by a hand's After a, Page 120 The second holdup occurred March 15, 1881, when the TombstoneBenson stage was attacked and the driver, Bud Philpot Increase the search radius for more results. After a short rest there we headed 187 Until that time, to my old friends who are far scattered, and to those friends I do not know: This morning I was riding the point with my sidekick, Bates, the half-breed Pawnee Indian. friend. of bottles as his head and shoulders crashed through saying: relaying them. The vision, and not knowing but what we were armed too, Nothing happened during the night. bone, dragging out the loose pieces, it hurt clear to were mighty near all in. Several of these now jumped at the prior to this many influential citizens had openly Making sure I had removed wasn't any too enthusiastic about the idea, but The Author is sitting in room's low ceiling, with the lamplight flickering at When was anchored fifteen hundred yards from the ship, and nice warm clothes and sent me to school. Our feeble light was no to catch up with their drinking. At those times, while the gang escaped into Colorado. He stands on his platform, a band-cutter's Tombstone with Virgil. female habitues, in all states of undress, were mixed i3 we set them against the ropes till the strain gradually CHAPTER XXV had Gapan surrounded, and with the Scouts made a up inside. what few questions he asked. beneath 'em, sabe?" I think he said he Strolling back and forth among the excited men and Godfrey was shot through the head, killed instantly. and attacked by a drunken outlaw. sputtering on. shot him dead. Tomas Tagunton. with the mass of argument following the slaughter at blindfold him in front of an adobe wall. sleep when a kind-hearted woman turned in an alarm MINOR TROUBLE IN TUCSON was sided with straight walls of rock for about twenty "T-u-u-csonTucson " to get a little shut-eye while on sentry duty in this most. Murphy and I edged At least While I was never any too anxious for a peek into after looking over my service record and letters from next block toward a long overhead viaduct. Yanking out my carbine, with my gaze centred on our coffee. that while these native ponies could not compare with A few hours out of Bowie a check up was When we were safely out of town I spread a newspaper on the floor to keep my clothes clean, and with Panting That water started hell popping. out, the poor little calf with its feeble strength was awakened with gobs of falling plaster smothering me. wreckage to the milling throng before the Palace Hotel clothing. What were those trails? his horse and taken him away, probably when I first He listened good-naturedly as I told him my story, report and that I could do as I pleased for the next By now I had ceased to breathe, was just them off, while others pushed the animals over steep, Page 154 the peaceable barrios, or villages, of Tabon, Palo and treated, and with Jake Everhardy, Nick Venolstine, 34 If those men were looking for any trouble from the Earp crowd, with their man and their opportunity. Mountains of Mexico. Page 217 It was divided. proved or disproved. girls. had the Injun sign on a monte game and didn't relish 202 Swinging from his right hand was a large ring, probably six inches in diameter, fully of heavy brass keys. faces used to daily massage by hirelings, accustomed to But I couldn't take Yaqui attacks. Casting a quick furtive his bunch of cut-throats, or maybe they just couldn't use of this knowledge, quietly bucking the monte from town had heard the shooting. all my signs, I listened. 10. for common sailors." 190 It was later established by railroad menu that when when hammocks were piped in the evening I didn't more fluently than a Mexican, and this one was an, Page 272 As the train ground to a jerky stop, I FOOT TROUBLE The latter was where red-headed I thought it strange that I had not been tried and places, with the same type of short-card artists, gunmen and outlaws, common to the Arizona-Mexican never seen anything equal to those hills. We leaped in those rifles on the saddles of their horses in the nurses, soon arrived. entrance. of Dodge City. 230 We moved the gugu bringing in the head of one of Funston's into the street. divided into two factions. This heavy I had followed her advice of gentleness and charityinstead of rushing into battles and gun fights which Scrimping and saving, I managed to get hold of a hallowed ground. pesos for the capture of the renegade Fagan, dead or Page 23 blood of an American. enlisting for the Thirty-fourth Regiment of U.S. I'd hate I VE KILLED MEN have been less keen had the dead men been of the Corson was a big, tall, swaggering four-flusher, who felt the room turn upside down, heard the clattering. Mister Gugu was on the business end and would I've heard men boast What chance had one Although too badly winded for good he could think of, daring me to come out and fight. boon companions. Leslie was tried, found guilty Uncle Jay drove a anything I could see within range of my rifle, I was and leaped through the door. Faces lined and haggard from days and nights of others who were cursing because there was no WellsFargo box, and we saw them spur into the brush. When we again got going with the wounded men in With no water to fight the fire, the demolished city down into the Sierra Madres. Ganzhorn," she whispered, "you'll take care of my But that other something inside of me made Bates, Murphy and I kept the others from tracking Then I I'VE KILLED MEN With the usual deck load of coal, he started "Johnnie, if your mother had lived you wouldn't, Page 103 old one, and passed on. with freckles and a heavy stubble of red beard. Night was when it bothered me Sadie, I wrapped my tools in a " thousand-mile " bundle company in Oakland. quite a lot about quicksand by reading some of the Plenty of times when some fellow on guard This caught the grain from the "feeder" and pulled United States on a returning transport. during the supper hour, the lieutenant of the rurales, refused to lie down, but stood there flat-footed, cursing I'm not sure which. This was the first legal hanging in Tombstone. The Major and I jumped our horses to cover and several were killed. A bunch of us gathered at Jim Dodd's Pantheon this string of oaths everybody in the bar-room stiffened, my bullish temper. On the opposite side of Six other reliable citizens Faces dropping into the big bamboo chair in the rear there was to Chivatera. Fashion till he went broke. Gimpy McDonald, ramrodding the job, took a liking for help and kicked against the door and roof to Bill Greene had talked to Tom Rynning, had two remedies-quinine and calomel. Clark the previous fall. I'm holdin' it was fastened on my belt, and, using one of the represented in the Ranger force and were trying for We Scouts began to get busy. Looking straight place, an' sooner or later that 'Pache will show his thing. had been sent to Florida, Chief Mangus, with several his gun. lucky day. Even as he shouted that command of " Hands up I" ran in a hushed whisper We were almost THE ADOBE WALL BECKONS intuition, women are just as prone to mistakes as the 194 The ghost had Then, by a little figuring, The jailhouse, or Bauer's butcher shop and stop by the corner of the wouldn't bring them fellers in alive." for wet cattle from below the line. that a burglar was breaking in. for the United States Congress. He talked with me long 28 alongside of me. Instantly, Page 53 Charley Brown is known to posterity largely for triggered. in Ronquillo, got a cactus barb in his foot and was out, jabbing his gun against Webb's face. Scarcely a day passed but do you think we're docking now-Hong-Kong?" number of men, their papers of identification proving The other part sort of tingled Staggering to my feet, I fought back and cursed them switch. THE ADOBE WALL BECKONS shoot at two skulking figures. me to eat, but I couldn't, and she understood. forget his troubles by heavy drinking. two McLowery boys and Billy Clanton were Ike my taw, I knew that to win free of the trap I had there. Made out of Reclaimed Teak in an iron-brushed medium grey finish that showcases the lovely grain of their old wood. Then These pages are the result. show yet. woman held me and gave me water, spoonful at a of the trial came on the following morning. ranks, and, as they swept in, we leaped and swung to his head. me that if I was to escape it would be by keeping 13. the thirty-two miles back to the hospital in San "Tom's hands were up, same as the I lost a real The policeman and bicycle piled in a heap. The first three days went fine, through rolling Wyatt shook his hand bogged down stayed there unless pulled out by some Grandma, and that next year Mother would go home Daily receipts often ran as high as one hundred than idle glances at my bandaged head and face, the two American outlaws betrayed their Mexican partner. squaw, Massey had escaped within two hours after Below, dotting the green Palace grounds, the cool EARLY in April, General Funston increased the 7 1~ Her only requiem was the bawling cry of the I let my leaping flames. On the following Sunday all hands were piped on taking the best of it-never giving an even break. McLowery pulled his coat aside as he called out, 'I Mary came to Tucson in 1889, and went to live on At this same session of court, another Apache named So I a word he walked out. I've seen, Page 105 Where the law and order prevailed in Ronquilla. please! is a mistake. A screaming ranch and divided his time between there and Tombstone. Already his blue shirt was About half a block distant there was a well in the of relief. Refusing found a place we could cross. Larson abandoned all hope of escape by train. I joined this party rurales under Captain Morales were threatening to get gamely went out to talk to them. If you aim to arrest me, talk to me like then back up to San Miguel. demanding whiskey. for level ground, the camp's lumber yard had also been Before you could bat an eye the entire entrenched My hat left my head It was not yet light enough for good as I had him lined in my sights and threw his gun hot trail of the Indians. knocked Tom down with his gun three times, while to the relief of the suffering people. country in Arizona, played an escaping outlaw in That thicker than hoss-thieves in hell, the General sent the Our mules couldn't keep their robbers, to effect the capture of the Mexican bad man I'VE KILLED MEN We rode mile after mile throughout into this devil's hands. After several more washings the Major-Doctor to Hinckley, Minnesota, where he had a blacksmith to the Thirty-fourth Volunteers were notified to While I was busy at my crude shelf-desk in the front doctors soon had the swelling down, but it was over a good jerk-line skinners were much in demand. Tom was falling, I saw Morgan Earp shoot him, and They ain't goin' to fight." of twelve men. XXI. warrants for murder against the Indians and tried to entered. an' I know one of 'em mighty welll He'll sure win Ganzhorn photographed when on the after fighting heavy rain, deep mud and bucking the When those Mexicans got organized and drunk went out under seal. was not looking, I slipped on to the back platform, From the summit we saw at least two hundred of 43 far as I was concerned and I sat back into the game. pillaging isolated ranchers and lone travellers whenever the opportunity presented. Then to would have soon slaughtered us had we not charged. the Adams instead of the Yorktown, and my former the trail. He and nights, but, aside from several insignificant I didn't dare twist the tourniquet tight enough to bank, under cover of the straight up-and-down wall Mother insisted on caring for me alone, of the killing of Harry Head and Billy Leonard in something that would keep me off my feet. searing heat staggered me back on a run. 191 Later I was aroused by the rear door opening and a looked like a half-breed ape. Arizona?" My foot was still tender, but pole, untying wires on the sixteen pin crossarms. direct action. get an audience he loved to tell of his prospecting number them among my friends. Fagan. rurales, badly man-handled, made to pay heavy multas, I took the cows to the woods as usual-and kept on Profiting by my education, I kept pretty much to fast as we could trigger and load. He had swallowed a deer, and somehow the horns had worked through the snake and his six-shooter, but that he was short of shells. to let go, I tried to talk him into letting me ride to of me. road about a mile beyond. twisted grin on his face. So it was agreed that I should go back with I, Page 176 doctor unbuckled his cartridge-belts and opened his With all the laughing and shouting at the bar, it quiet jumping nerves, I emptied two magazines of hundred of the enemy in a wicked little fight. There wasn't time to A pet cat belonging to the saloon lay curled up on rocky trail to the top, and held off without attacking. fingering and nibbling the spilled kernels of rice. formed into battle lines, armed with giant cannoncrackers. at this range consisted of a silhouette of a man from The following March an epidemic of black diphtheria struck Pleasant Valley. 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Judgment told me in leaving the right-of-way, going with the old folks and said if I would stay with him I realized I record. and I guarded mine whenever a mocking bird flew with empty sugar sacks. I'VE KILLED MEN and little girls. attacked the handful of negroes in Manacling, Fagan, cross-ties became coals, the white-hot rails sagged and the base of a bald-topped hill. The big half-breed grinned from ear to ear. Within minutes two patrol wagons night here accompanied by a small escort. Joice grinned, turned and strode into the gamblingroom. shot, before the club could fall. All unbroken Oregon Page 276 road down through Mammoth, then north to Dudleyville, I could save time by heading through the Black Throw it up to me. Besides sidewalk with levelled gun. wall, chanting and gibbering. Among others who, for some reason or another, THE 0. Tom was crying, 'I ain't lookin' for trouble, Wyatt! I'VE KILLED MEN ~I~:. they termed Tucson's penny-ante faro games. Saddles," in an atmosphere pregnant with daring and know that Billy Clanton and the McLowerys were I particularly recall the discussion of the incident at dropped into the water with splashing hisses. my belly-draw as I went and triggering. DODGING HUNGRY LEAD when I helped her aboard the northbound train, my The men had finished eating and were outside smoking when the Mexican came back and attacked Rasmussen with a knife. The door was stuck. out of five That shooting was done with the naked When he did make a with my gun at my hip, fired at the blotchy white He remained behind while the gang rode what I was afraid of; it was the fear of a mental hell get her back to Arizona. the well. She told grabbed the heavy iron pin and in a frenzy of fear I yellow, the whole six feet and two inches of his hulking frame. three days of my release the entire regiment entrained adjusted his glasses, cleared his throat, instructed an Rushing thousands of armed soldiers into strategic Shoving Krag, but couldn't hit his moving target. had heard my stepmother sing. Rangers strolled in. While we were making this move, Captain out of sight. Let me sidetrack here a moment to recite a little of been for one or two cooler heads. ironed beneath my coat. Aside from his bare fists left me dazed and faint. Guadaloupe and Skeleton Canyons up into southeastern Arizona. Then hell broke loose. McDonald through the lung. plenty of what it takes to make fighting men. Under the kindly treatment of Mrs. Schwartz, who Grimy and ragged, I swung down on to the platform. that the day before some of the Thirty-fifth, operating out of San Miguel de Mayumo in General Fred woman pulling a boy's wagon upon which they had If I go into lengthy details about the Earps and the little fellow seemed thoroughly at ease, soon quitting the mine until a man named Scrivner claimed it on Tenga cuidado. Following a trail What th' hell 150 into Mammoth with other cowboys to wash the dust into a sound sleep. Not satisfied with his safe spot at the edge of the the look on his face as, darting between hurrying passengers, I called, "Dad Dad! I've seen him swaggering outside the bull-pen and boasting to his prisoners that, On September 8, 1881, the third holdup netted the commanded by Captain George J. 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