'One day Sam come to me and said he wanted me to ride over to a creek

near what is now the town of Fairfax, and watch a bunch of about thirty
head he told me he just bought
'One day Sam come to me and said he wanted me to ride over to a creek
near what is now the town of Fairfax, and watch a bunch of about thirty
head he told me he just bought. There was a pack of Crow Injuns that we
knew was somewhere around there. But in them days it was the same with
working for a man as it was about asking questions. If he told you to do
anything, it was up to you to do it, or stand the consequences. So I
saddled a flea-bitten pinto and set out, though I must say I wasn"t
particularly keen on going. It had been rumored that Sam had got some
of his cattle from the Injuns, and we"d always expected that if Sam ever
did die--of which we had our doubts, because he was so mean--that it
would be at the hand of a redskin.