Another method of the Stewarts was to trail a coveted horse up on a mesa or highland, places which seldom had more than one trail of ascent and descent, and there block the escape, and cut lines of cedars, into which the quarry was ran till captured.

Still another method, discovered by accident, was to shoot a horse lightly in the neck and sting him.

This last, called creasing, was seldom successful, and for that matter in any method ten times as many horses were killed as captured.
Lin Slone helped the Stewarts in their own way, but he had no especial liking for their tricks.

Perhaps a few remarkable captures of remarkable horses had spoiled Slone.

He was always trying what the brothers claimed to be impossible.