Excerpt: ... saddles, rode, as the custom is, with light snaffle
bridles, leather guards over our feet, and broad wooden stirrups,
and each carried his lunch in a pouch slung on the lassoing horn of
his saddle. Four big, badly-trained dogs accompanied us. It was a
ride of nearly thirty miles, and of many hours, one of the most
splendid I ever took. We never got off our horses except to tighten
the girths, we ate our lunch with our bridles knotted over saddle
horns, started over the level at full gallops, leapt over trunks of
trees, dashed madly down hillsides rugged with rocks or strewn with
great stones, forded deep, rapid streams, saw lovely lakes and
views of surpassing magnificence, startled a herd of elk with
uncouth heads and in the chase, which for some time was
unsuccessful, rode to the very base of Long's Peak, over 14,000
feet high, where the bright waters of one of the affluents of the
Platte burst from the eternal snows through a canyon of
indescribable majesty. The sun was hot, but at a height of over
8,000 feet the air was crisp and frosty, and the enjoyment of
riding a good horse under such exhilarating circumstances was
extreme. In one wild part of the ride we had to come down a steep
hill, thickly wooded with pitch pines, to leap over the fallen
timber, and steer between the dead and living trees to avoid being
"snagged," or bringing down a heavy dead branch by an unwary touch.
Emerging from this, we caught sight of a thousand Texan cattle
feeding in a valley below. The leaders scented us, and, taking
fright, began to move off in the direction of the open "park,"
while we were about a mile from and above them. "Head them off,
boys " our leader shouted; "all aboard; hark away " and with
something of the "High, tally-ho in the morning " away we all went
at a hard gallop down-hill. I could not hold my excited animal;
down-hill, up-hill, leaping over rocks and timber, faster every
moment the pace grew, and still the leader shouted, "Go it, boys
..".
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