£xGSlave Stories	Page Two
(Texas)



a broom handle . T~ie boa s m~n had a white preacher ‚ •omet lass ‚ and.

there was plenty good beef cornbread. But if the boas didn‘t cars much, he jus‘ lined ‘em up and said, ‘Mandy, that ‚ e your husband and, RUf~1B, that ‚ B 7O~ wife ~


	Kater the war ~ were Bent to Tixas, tue 9t~i U. S. Cavalry,

under Capt. Francis F. Dodge. I was at Port $111, Port Davis, Fort Stockton and. Port Clark. I was in two battles with Indians in the Guadalupe Mountains. I ßerYe& under Col. Shafter in 1871 and I got my discharge under Oen. Merritt in 18?2. Then I come to Sa~i Antonio.

	“I helped bring the first railroad here. Ph. S.P. in them days only ran near Ssgttin and I was a spiker and. worked the whole distance. Then :i helped build. the old railroad. from Indianola to Cuero and. then fron Cuero to Corpus,and Schleister~ I think, and Cunninghaa wers the contractors. That was in 1873 and 1874.

	lii	drove cattle for big outfits, end drove 2,000 or 3,000 head. fron South Texas sometin~es clean up to Dakota. I drove for John Lytle. Brockha~ts, heran and Bill Sutton. There wasn‘t no trails and. no fencea.

The Indians would co~ ask for seat and. we knew if we dicin ‚ t give it to tea they‘d stampede the cattle.

	“If 1 wasn~t so old, I‘d. travel ‘round again. I don‘t believe any man can be educat ed. who alu‘ t traveled. soue. „
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