RANCHING, SPORT AND TRAVEL
BY
THOMAS CARSON, F.R.G.S.
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
T. FISHER UNWIN
LONDONLEIPSIC
Adelphi TerraceInselstrasse 20
1911
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
This book is somewhat in the nature of an autobiography, covering as it does almost the
whole of the Author's life. The main portion of the volume is devoted to cattle ranching in
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The Author has also included a record of his travels abroad,
which he hopes will prove to be not uninteresting; and a chapter devoted to a description of
tea planting in India.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. Tea Planting
In Cachar\u2014Apprenticeship\ue000Tea Planting
described\ue001Polo\ue002In Sylhet\ue003Pilgrims at Sacred
Pool\ue004Wild Game\ue005Amusements\ue006Rainfall\ue007Return to
Cachar\ue008Scottpore\ue009Snakes\ue00aA Haunted Tree\ue00bHill
Tribes\ue00cSelecting a Location\ue00dReturn to England.
II. Cattle Ranching in Arizona
Leave for United States of America\ue00eIowa\ue00fNew
Mexico\ue010Real Estate Speculation\ue011Gambling\ue012Billy the
Kid\ue013Start Ranching in Arizona\ue014Description of
Country\ue015Apache and other Indians\ue016Fauna\ue017Branding
Cattle\ue018Ranch Notes\ue019Mexicans\ue01aPolitics\ue01bSummer
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Camp\ue01cWinter Camp\ue01dFishing and Shooting\ue01eIndian Troubles.
III. Cattle Ranching in Arizona (continued)
The Cowboy—Accoutrements and Weapons—Desert
Plants—Politics and
Perjury—Mavericks—Mormons—Bog Riding.
IV. Odds and Ends
Scent and Instinct—Mules—Roping
Contests—Antelopes—The Skunk—Garnets—Leave
Arizona.
V. Ranching in New Mexico
The Scottish Company—My Difficulties and Dangers—Mustang Hunting—Round-up described—Shipping Cattle—Railroad Accidents—Close out Scotch Company's Interests.
VI. Odds and Ends
Summer Round-up Notes—Night Guarding—Stampedes—Bronco
Busting—Cattle Branding, etc.
VII. On my own Ranch
Locating—Plans—Prairie Fires and
Guards—Bulls—Trading—Successful
Methods—Loco-weed—Sale of Ranch.
VIII. Odds and Ends
The "Staked Plains"—High Winds—Lobo
Wolves—Branding—Cows—Black Jack—Lightning and
Hail—Classing Cattle—Conventions—"Cutting" versus
Polo—Bull-Fight—Prize-Fights—River and Sea
Fishing—Sharks.
IX. In Amarillo
Purchase of Lots—Building—Boosting a Town.
X. First Tour Abroad
Mexico—Guatemala—Salvador—Panama—Colombia—Venezuela
—Jamaica—Cuba—Fire in Amarillo—Rebuilding.
XI. Second Tour Abroad
Bermudas—Switzerland—Italy—Monte
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Carlo—Algiers—Morocco—Spain—Biarritz and Pau.
XII. Third Tour Abroad
Salt Lake
City—Canada—Vancouver—Hawaii—Fiji—Australia—New
Zealand—Tasmania—Summer at Home.
XIII. Fourth Tour Abroad
Yucatan—Honduras—Costa
Rica—Panama—Equador—Peru—Chile—Argentina—Brazil—Teneri
XIV. Fifth Tour Abroad
California—Honolulu—Japan—China—Singapore—Burmah—India&mdash
End.
Appendix
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
One of the "Boys" (see page125)
Frontispiece
Plucking Tea Leaf
20
Nagas
37
Roping a Grizzly
70
A Shooting Scrape
76
One of our Men, to show hang of Six-Shooter
78
1883 in Arizona, Author and Party
80
Wound Up, Horse tangled in Rope
106
Watering a Herd
116
Herd on Trail, showing Lead Steer
137
Changing Horses
153
A Real Bad One
164
Breaking the Prairie
230
First Crop—Milo Maize
230
Llamas as Pack Animals
279
Drifting Sand Dune, One of Thousands
279
Peruvian Ruins. Note Dimensions of Stones and Locking System
281
Palace of Maharana of Udaipur
310
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