A Texas Matchmaker. Andy Adams

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      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4057664616180

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       CHAPTER XVII

       CHAPTER XVIII

       CHAPTER XIX

       CHAPTER XX

       CHAPTER XXI

       CHAPTER XXII

      CHAPTER

      I. LANCE LOVELACE

      II. SHEPHERD'S FERRY

      III. LAS PALOMAS

      IV. CHRISTMAS

      V. A PIGEON HUNT

      VI. SPRING OF '76

      VII. SAN JACINTO DAY

      VIII. A CAT HUNT ON THE FRIO

      IX. THE ROSE AND ITS THORN

      X. AFTERMATH

      XI. A TURKEY BAKE

      XII. SUMMER OF '77

      XIII. HIDE HUNTING

      XIV. A TWO YEARS' DROUTH

      XV. IN COMMEMORATION

      XVI. MATCHMAKING

      XVII. WINTER AT LAS PALOMAS

      XVIII. AN INDIAN SCARE

      XIX. HORSE BRANDS

      XX. SHADOWS

      XXI. INTERLOCUTORY PROCEEDINGS

      XXII. SUNSET

      ROLLING THE BULL OVER LIKE A HOOP

      WE GOT THE AMBULANCE OFF BEFORE SUNRISE

      FLASHED A MESSAGE BACK

      GAVE THE WILDEST HORSES THEIR HEADS

      HE SPED DOWN THE COURSE

      UTTERING A SINGLE PIERCING SNORT

      CHAPTER I

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      LANCE LOVELACE

      When I first found employment with Lance Lovelace, a Texas cowman, I had not yet attained my majority, while he was over sixty. Though not a native of Texas, "Uncle Lance" was entitled to be classed among its pioneers, his parents having emigrated from Tennessee along with a party of Stephen F. Austin's colonists in 1821. The colony with which his people reached the state landed at Quintana, at the mouth of the Brazos River, and shared the various hardships that befell all the early Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality. Thus the education of young Lovelace was one of privation. Like other boys in pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required, in reclaiming the wilderness. When Austin hoisted the new-born Lone Star flag, and called upon the sturdy pioneers to defend it, the adventurous settlers came from every quarter of the territory, and among the first who responded to the call to arms was young Lance Lovelace. After San Jacinto, when the fighting was over and the victory won, he laid down his arms, and returned to ranching with the same zeal and energy. The first legislature assembled voted to those who had borne arms in behalf of the new republic, lands in payment for their services. With this land scrip for his pay, young Lovelace, in company with others, set out for the territory lying south of the Nueces. They were a band of daring spirits. The country was primitive and fascinated them, and they remained. Some settled on the Frio River, though the majority crossed the Nueces, many going as far south as the Rio Grande. The country was as large as the men were daring, and there was elbow room for all and to spare. Lance Lovelace located a ranch a few miles south of the Nueces River, and, from the cooing of the doves in the encinal, named it Las Palomas.

      "When I first settled here in 1838," said Uncle Lance to me one morning, as we rode out across the range, "my nearest neighbor lived forty miles up the river at Fort Ewell. Of СКАЧАТЬ