Chapter 11 A
Prosperous YearAn open winter favored the cattle on the Medicine River. My
partners in Kansas wrote me encouragingly, and plans were outlined
for increasing our business for the coming summer. There was no
activity in live stock during the winter in Texas, and there would
be no trouble in putting up herds at prevailing prices of the
spring before. I spent an inactive winter, riding back and forth to
my ranch, hunting with hounds, and killing an occasional deer.
While visiting at Council Grove the fall before, Major Hunter
explained to our silent partner the cheapness of Texas lands.
Neither one of my associates cared to scatter their interests
beyond the boundaries of their own State, yet both urged me to
acquire every acre of cheap land that my means would permit.
