His object was to secure for show purposes cinematograph pictures.

He took some New Mexican cow-ponies out with him, and he and his men succeeded in all they undertook to do, capturing not only the less dangerous animals, such as antelope, buck and giraffe, but also a lioness and a rhinoceros, surely a very notable feat.
Amarillo in the Panhandle was then purely a cattleman's town.

It was a great shipping point--at one time the greatest in the world--and was becoming a railroad centre.

I was there a good deal, and for amusement during the slack season went to work to fix up a polo ground.

No one in the town had ever even seen the game played, so the work and expense all fell on myself.