Identifier: sdbutcherspionee00butc (find matches)
Title: S.D. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Broken Bow, Neb. : (Merchants Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t up slowly, grumbling. However, as soon as they looked outand saw what a terrible storm was coming they rushed for their horses, butbefore they could saddle and mount the storm had struck them. In the meantime the watcher had hurried back to the cattle. He hadalmost reached the head of the herd when the storm broke. The darknesswas intense. A terrible wind drove the rain in sheets. The entire herdjumped to their feet as one steer and started on a wild stampede before thestorm. And oh, such a night! The instant the cattle started the boy was also gone like a shot alongthe side of the herd. For more than a mile he ran beside the herd, over chophills, across canons, trving to gel in tiie lead of the st<ers. 26 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY The roar of 4.(M)0 hoof beats, rainjiied with the ((uisiaul crasli of tliuii-tler, made it a race never to be forgotten. Tlie cattle couhl only be seen bythe rider at the flash of the lightning, Avhich was so dazzling as to almostblind his eves.
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The Old Black Ranch on Deer Creek, Owned and Refitted by Geo. Adams, Union Stock Yards. Chicago.Wm. Montgomery, Foreman. This is the Finest Equipped Ranch in the Northwest. ^Time and again the wiry pony was on his knees, but almost instantlyi!;) and again going. Gradually the pony gained upon the leaders and the rider held him in gainst them. They began to swerve from their straight course before the storm. Gradually he brought them to running in a circle, then as he closed in nearer the outside cattle the circle became smaller and smalled until they were at a standstill. The storm ended as suddenly as it began. Shortly his companions werethere and the cattle were driven back to the tent and held until morning,when, on a count of the herd, it was found twenty-five were missing. These AND SHORT SKP^TCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 27 were found later not far Ik.hi wlicic tlic calllc wcie stopped the night before,lying- upon the hillside resting- from tluMi- terrible run. The point wher

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