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rj\HK bend of horses had been run befort. They had developed a cunning and ingenuity In escaping capture that would rival outlaw men. When they sighted us, they did not try to run from us. They knew its futility. Instead, they came out of that canyon straight at us like the proverbial bat out of Carlsbad cavern. In the lead came the White Streak. His ears were back, his eyes rolling, showing the whites, and he was emitting squeals and snorts which only he could give.We had agreed that whoever dropped a rope over his wild head should have him, provided he could ride him. Catching any of the others was only secondary. Well did we know the uselessness of trying to stop any of them, or to rope the White Streak and settle down on arope. It would snap like twine. We did the only thing possible. As that, tornado rushed by, we turned and rode wdth them. 1 was in the lead. As the White Streak swept by Branniti, he made a throw but the loop slid off his back. As he passed Gabaldon, his horse fell down nodHi. » UiiULU me (JkJg*ging string.Tire Streak sprang up, then stood motionless. He swung his head from side to side. Something hid happened that he could not understand.Rider or Old School But Gabaldon was a bronc rider of the old school. “Go he yelled, “Go it, you devil, and he clamped the Streak with a pair of four inch Mexican Spurs. They went! Six feet in the air the first Jump, Then followed gyrations that would have made frontier days at Cheynne look like riding a Sunday horse to church. Time and again the Streak quit bucking in dash away with the speed of the wind and enter clumps of. pinon Hrees where, seemingly no rider could stick. But Galadon em- 1 erged swinging his hat. and with Ur enough timber caught on his saddle a*J horn to build a bon fire, sUFinally with all of us herding, we ^ reached the Gabaldcn ranch on the d5 Mangnas just at sundown. And Gillie Gabaldon, then a lad of ID, ran out to open ihe gate, exclaiming. Did you catch him? Gabaldon's breaking of the Streak wrote horse hi.' tory in that country. Once helethe
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Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 09, 1939
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