Chapter I: Front Matter

(Portrait. See p. 125.)

Frontispiece.]

RANCHING, SPORT AND TRAVEL

BY

THOMAS CARSON, F.R.G.S.

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

T. FISHER UNWIN

LONDON LEIPSIC Adelphi Terrace Inselstrasse 20

1911

[_All Rights Reserved_]

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. PAGE

I. TEA PLANTING 13

In Cachar--Apprenticeship--Tea Planting described--Polo
--In Sylhet--Pilgrims at Sacred Pool--Wild
Game--Amusements--Rainfall--Return to Cachar--Scottpore
--Snakes--A Haunted Tree--Hill Tribes--Selecting
a Location--Return to England.

II. CATTLE RANCHING IN ARIZONA 42

Leave for United States of America--Iowa--New
Mexico--Real Estate Speculation--Gambling--Billy
the Kid--Start Ranching in Arizona--Description of
Country--Apache and other Indians--Fauna--Branding
Cattle--Ranch Notes--Mexicans--Politics--Summer
Camp--Winter Camp--Fishing and
Shooting--Indian Troubles.

III. CATTLE RANCHING IN ARIZONA (_continued_) 81

The Cowboy--Accoutrements and Weapons--Desert
Plants--Politics and Perjury--Mavericks--Mormons--Bog
Riding.

IV. ODDS AND ENDS 103

Scent and Instinct--Mules--Roping Contests--Antelopes
--The Skunk--Garnets--Leave Arizona.

V. RANCHING IN NEW MEXICO 117

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 152

Summer Round-up Notes--Night Guarding--Stampedes--Bronco
Busting--Cattle Branding, etc.

VII. ON MY OWN RANCH 170

Locating--Plans--Prairie Fires and Guards--Bulls--Trading
--Successful Methods--Loco-weed--Sale of Ranch.

VIII. ODDS AND ENDS 198

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 226

Purchase of Lots--Building--Boosting a Town.

X. FIRST TOUR ABROAD 234

Mexico--Guatemala--Salvador--Panama--Colombia--Venezuela
--Jamaica--Cuba--Fire in Amarillo--Rebuilding.

XI. SECOND TOUR ABROAD 250

Bermudas--Switzerland--Italy--Monte Carlo--Algiers
--Morocco--Spain--Biarritz and Pau.

XII. THIRD TOUR ABROAD 256

Salt Lake City--Canada--Vancouver--Hawaii--Fiji
--Australia--New Zealand--Tasmania--Summer at Home.

XIII. FOURTH TOUR ABROAD 270

Yucatan--Honduras--Costa Rica--Panama--Equador--Peru
--Chile--Argentina--Brazil--Teneriffe.

XIV. FIFTH TOUR ABROAD 287

California--Honolulu--Japan--China--Singapore--Burmah
--India--Ceylon--The End.