Also, he made some kind of a contraption that's like the end of your crutch.

These he packs with him.

I saw him ride across the pasture to hide his tracks, climb up the sage for the same reason, an' then hide in that grove of aspens over there near the trail you use.

Here, you can bet, he changed shoes on the left front foot of his horse.

Then he took to the trail, an' he left tracks for a while, an' then he was careful to hide them again.