I rode him myself, and but for him we would never have accomplished what we did.

When we got through our best horses were all played out.

But it was absolutely necessary to move our own mare band to the nearest corral at Fort Sumner, a distance of thirty miles, which we did that evening.

To night-herd them would have been impossible.

The title to many of these colts, branded and unbranded, was very much mixed up, and indeed still in the Courts.