Chapter 22
In ConclusionThe subsequent history of the ill-fated Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Cattle Company is easily told. Over ninety per cent of the cattle
moved under the President's order were missing at the round-up the
following spring. What few survived were pitiful objects, minus
ears and tails, while their horns, both root and base, were frozen
until they drooped down in unnatural positions. Compared to the
previous one, the winter of 1885-86, with the exception of the
great January blizzard, was the less severe of the two. On the
firm's range in the Cherokee Strip our losses were much lighter
than during the previous winter, owing to the fact that food was
plentiful, there being little if any sleet or snow during the
latter year. Had we been permitted to winter in the Cheye
