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SHOWDOWN

Pop Gordon heard the news before he had
spent five minutes in Coyote Gap. As the
grizzled old ex-marsha! tethered his horse
before the general store, one of the hangers-
on greeted him.

"Howdy, Pop," he drawled. "Hear Chico
Davis is back in town."

The muscles tightened under Gordon's jaw
as he finished tying his horse. He said noth-
ing but began walking up the street. In
front of the Wells Fargo office, Mulcahy, the
manager, lounged against the door puffing
on a stogie.

"Saw Chico a little while ogo," Mulcahy
remarked, as Gordon passed him. "They let
him out a week ago. Gave him a year off
for good behavior."

Pop nodded his acknowledgment and
stomped past along the wooden walk know-
ing that Mulcahy was watching him, reading
his face for a sign of worry or fear, The old
man kept his eyes straight ahead. From across
the street, he could see Tobey, the partly
Mayor of the town, coming toward him.

"Pop," he said, worriedly, "Chico Davis is
around. He was asking for you. That could
mean trouble. Gunplay, maybe."

"Maybe," agreed Gordon.

"Look, Pop, the new Marshal's out of town.
Maybe it'd be healthier if you left town till
Dovis cools off."

Pop smiled faintly and shook his head.

"When I arrested Chico, I was the town
marshal, and I did it in the line of duty. No,
Mayor, I'm not backing away from trouble."

As he pushed past the Mayor and up along
the wooden walk, Gordon was remembering
Chico Davis. Gordon remembered him well,—
a wild, headstrong kid who ran with the
wrong bunch. Shooting, scrapes, barroom

brawls, and crooked gambling— Chico had
been mixed up in all of them. One day,
Gordon caught him at a branding fire blot-
ting out another man's brand on a yearling
steer.

Now, three years later. Davis was out of
jail, nursing his pride and wrath, and waiting
to even the score with Gordon.

As Pop stalked down the street, he was
aware of faces watching him from behind
windows, knots of people staring at him from
the shadows.

Near the- bank, he caught sight of Chico.
The boy had grown taller. He was more of
a man now, too. But Gordon could still catch
o hint of Chlca's old arrogant swagger. Sud-
denly, Chico was moving toward Gordon, a
faint smile on his lips. Tension knotted inside
the old man. He wanted to speak to Chico,
to tell him that if he killed now he would go
on killing all his life. Killing and running and
hiding from the law. But Pop's throat was dry.
The words wouldn't come.

And then they were facing each other, ten
feet apart. Chico's smile was broader now.
"Howdy, Gordon," he said. "Something I
want to say to you."

Pop waited tensely. Chico was clever.

"I'm not sore at you, Pop," said Chico.
"Reckon 1 had that prison term coming." The
old man gave him a puzzled look.

"Those years in prison gave me a lot of
time to think. I'm gorhg straight from here
on. The woy I figure, I've got a lot to thank
you for."

The ex-marshol stared at him in disbelief.
This could be a trick to put him off guard.
He searched Chico's face for a hint of what
was coming. And then it came to him— the
old, wild, dare-devil look was gone from
Chico's eyes, it was a man who was looking
at him now. It was a man reaching out his
hand in a gesture of friendship. Pop's creased
face broke into a smile. He reached out and
gripped Chico's hand.

When he spoke the old man's voice was
loud enough for the whole town to hear.
"Welcome back, Chico! Welcome home!"

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AN IMALS F THE WEST

The bulky badger can dig so last that he is
underground before a man can dismount from
his horse! He uses the enormous claws on all
lour feet to shovel earth lite a machine. Since
the badger is a big animal, sometimes thirty
inches long and very big around, he has to dig
big holes.

The badger often hunts prairie dogs. He does
this by digging after them. The badger plunges
into a prairie dog hole but soon finds chat it is
only about one-half the size he needs to "navi-
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He will turn on the largest animals and light to
the death with his powerful teeth and, above all,
his enormous claws. Because his body is covered
with very thick, tough fur, and his skin is "too
big" tor him, (it hangs in large, loose folds) ,
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times, and do no harm!

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the first

cattlemen

The first ranchers in America were the Spanish
soldiers who came here in expeditions under
Cortez and other conquistadors. They brought
horses and mules and later the tough strong-
boned, long-horned cattle.

The Indians had no horses when the Spaniards
first landed on the American mainland. When
they first saw the horses of such explorers as
Cortez and Coronado. they thought horse and
rider were one animal. They feared and respected
the strange hcjiigs that had come among them.
On one occasion. Hopi Indians spread cloth on
the road over which a Spanish explorers horse
would walk to show their awe of the Spaniard's
useful friend. It took many years for the Indians
to learn that they could, ride horses.

After Indian resistance to the Spanish conquest
had been overcome, the Spaniards turned to
mining and cattle ranching. The first cowboys
in America were the common sqldiers of Cortez _
and other conquistadors. More important men
usually received rich gold and silver mines as
rewards from the Spanish king for the part tliey
took in the conquest. The soldier turned to
cattle ranching for his living.

At first, the Spaniards herded cattle as they
had done in Spain. They used their long "picas"
or pikes much more than they did their lassos.
These picas were really long war lances which
they used to urge cattle into pens and other
enclosures, much as they would have done, in the
crowded civilized ranches in old Spain.

But before long, lhfi^5paniards learned to let
their cattle range" freely on the wide grasslands.
They only rounded them up at market time, or
when a herd had to be gathered for some other
reason. ,Soon, they became experts with the lasso,
or, as they called it. the "reata "

The Sf/uiTYBh cowboy and the Mexican vaquero
used a braided leather reata made of cowhide.
Pieces of leather were braided together to form
a line sometimes forty or more feet long. Even
today, Mexican vaqueros prefer the heavier
braided leather to rope. With roping as a fine
art, good horses and the long-horned steer,
ranching in America was born.

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