Wild life in the far west - personal adventures of a border mountain man (1874) (14594697489)

Identifier: wildlifefarwest00hobb (find matches)
Title: Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hobbs, James, b. 1819
Subjects: Hobbs, James, b. 1819 Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Mexican War, 1846-1848 Southwest, New -- Description and travel Mexico -- History European intervention, 1861-1867
Publisher: Hartford : Wiley, Waterman & Eaton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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giving me a chance to dismount and cut histhroat, which was a good job, considering the fleetnessof such animals and the difficulty of their capture.This elk was of large size, and his horns I preservedand still keep them at my ranche, near Visalia, as amemento of a desperate struggle with an elk, and anornament over my doorway to show to visitors whohappen to call upon me. Among other employments I engaged to fill a sub-contract for three hiindred and fifty head of cattle fora beef contractor for Fort Tejon, to receive my paywhen the contract was filled. I was successful in thisundertaking, and made money on the job, satisfyingall the parties concerned and supplying good beef.After this I returned to my ranche and made someheavy purchases of sheep for the San Francisco mar-ket, which ventures always proved profitable. In thatvicinity it is an easy matter to collect a few thousandsheep, as there are many stock raisers that can sparefrom five hundred to one thousand, and scarcely miss
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8IIEEP SPECULATIONS. 473 them. I sold my sheep in San Francisco to wholesalepurchasers, and might have built up a prosperoustrade if I liad remained at the business, but circum-stances prevented me. ti^i^^