It is very hard work and, as said before, needs better horsemanship than polo.

To watch, or better still to ride, a first-class cutting horse is a treat indeed.
During these last few years of ranch life my leisure gave me time to make odd excursions here and there.

Good shooting was to be had near Amarillo--any amount of bobwhite quail, quantities of prairie-chickens, plovers, etc.

And, by-the-bye, at Fort Sumner I had all to myself the finest kind of sport.

There was a broad avenue of large cotton-wood trees some miles in length.