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pine trees* hoary with age, and a huge colony of beaver. He named the sprtogs Nutria, which name they bear today.Getting ready to leave, it was found about 10 horses and mares had escaped in the roughs of the Escondido, That was not an uncommon event on a trip such as theirs, but it happened that one missing was a fine white stallion belonging to the lieutenant himself. On account of the many races he had won among the soldiers, he wascalled the White Streak.* * *BUT Coronado had been explicit os to the day of rejoining him, and the early Spaniards were drastic in their punishment when orders were disobeyed. So alter hanging the holster who had lost the horses, the detachment continued on its way. Lieutenant Gavcol-doonc ascending Escondido peak told his soldiers, “This is the most beautiful country I have ever seen and as soon as my service to Spaiu under Coronado is completed, I will return to live and die here.”The escaped horses soon multiplied, led by the white leader that had cncrr been ridden in a royal parade on the streets in Madrid. He stood 16 hands high, was milkwater, X slept on the mountain aide above the spring, trying to see this noted animal. There in the dead of the night came the wild horses, stepping with all the cunning and stealth of the mountain lions and deer that proceeded them.Saw Streak But Once Only once then did I see the White Streak. Then after the mares had watered, he eased over the rocks like a goat, passing only a few feet from my bed. Some instinct warned him, however, and before he reached the water he stampeded up the hillside scattering rocks in profusion and emitting squeals and snorts that would have done credit to a prize bucker at Pendleton or Cheyenne.My fence cut the wild horses off frcm watering at Nutria, but a small spring near the top of the mountain peak supplied sufficient water for the small band of a dozen that were still running there in 1918. We ranchmen made a rule that none of our cowboys should run wild horses and especially the White Streak. It was too hard on their mounts and in addition, they ; would neglect their duties. ;... jABOUT that time. Bob McCord became my foreman. A good :
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Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 09, 1939
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