CHAPTER III.
CACTUS RANCHING IN ARIZONA--_continued_ The Cowboy--Accoutrements and Weapons--Desert Plants--Politics and Perjury--Mavericks--Mormons--Bog Riding.
The "rustling" of cattle was very common in Arizona in these days.

By "rustling" is not meant the petty burning out of a brand, or stealing of calves or odd beef cattle.

It was carried on on the grand scale.

Bands of rustlers operated together in large bodies.

Between our range and the old Mexican border extended the Apache Reservation, a very large tract of exceedingly rough country, without roads of any description, the only signs of human presence being an occasional Indian trail and abandoned wickyups.