Then he would know just how old a "Hand" the fellow was.

Fifteen minutes convinced him that Bud had "growed up in the saddle", as he would have put it.

But that only mystified him the more.

Bart knew the range, and he knew every man in the country, from Burroback Valley, which was this great valley's name, to the Black Rim, beyond the mountain range, and beyond the Black Rim to the Sawtooth country.

He knew their ways and he knew their past records.
He knew that this young fellow came from farther ranges, and he would have been at a loss to explain just how he knew it.