Chapter 17
ForeshadowsI returned to Texas early in September. My foreman on the Double
Mountain ranch had written me several times during the summer,
promising me a surprise on the half-blood calves. There was nothing
of importance in the North except the shipping of a few trainloads
of beeves from our ranch in the Outlet, and as the bookkeeper could
attend to that, I decided to go back. I offered other excuses for
going, but home-hunger and the improved herd were the main reasons.
It was a fortunate thing that I went home, for it enabled me to get
into touch with the popular feeling in my adopted State over the
outlook for live stock in the future. Up to this time there had
been no general movement in cattle, in sympathy with other branches
of industry, notably in sheep and wo
