Identifier: captainbillmcdon00pain (find matches)
Title: Captain Bill McDonald, Texas ranger; a story of frontier reform
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937
Subjects: McDonald, William Jesse, 1852-1918 Texas Rangers Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
Publisher: New York, J. J. Little & Ives Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thecamp guest anything but a friendly look. In thecourse of the meal the visitor was asked where hewas from. Mineola, he said, Wood County. The surlyherder spoke up. These d—d sand-lappers (east-Texans) are get:ting too thick out here. McDonald set down his coffee. * The d—d skunks and prairie dogs are alreadytoo thick, he said. An instant later the puncher had out his pistol,but the sand-lapper was still quicker. The puncherwas covered before he could bring his weapon tobear. McDonald said: Turn it loose! Drop it! The herder still clutched the weapon which he wasafraid to raise. The sand-lapper stepped nearer tohim, and with a sudden movement rapped himsmartly on the head with the heavy barrel of hissix-shooter. It was a thing that as a deputy he haddone often, and it was always effective. Thepuncher dropped his gun. One of his comradessprang to his assistance, but was covered and dis-armed with amazing suddenness. The foreman in-terfered, now, and the beginner of the disturbance
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INTRODUCING REFORM IN THE WILDERNESS. He was disarmed with amazing suddenness. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR, Lf»<OX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. Into the Wilderness 47 was led away to a brook to have his head bathedand bandaged; wherenpon the sand-lapper quietlyfinished his dinner, thanked his host, continued thesearch for his missing stock, and when he had foundthem, set out for home. Meeting a group ofpunchers among which was his surly friend with anow bandaged head, he expected further trouble.Nothing happened. The sand-lapper and his missingcows had the right of way. VII Commercial Ventures and Adventures BILL Mcdonalds method of collecting a bill; andHIS method of handling bad men The inclination to commercial enterjDrise still sur-vived. At tlie end of a year McDonald sold hiscattle and invested in the lumber business at WichitaFalls—another railway terminus, dropped down inthe prairie, with a population of about two thou-sand, at that time. A little later he established abr

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