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defied the moving

defied the moving herds. On arriving at the cimarron river, in reply to a letter written to my employer on leaving texas behind us, an answer was found awaiting me at red fork. The latter was an indian tradingpost, located on the mail route to fort reno, and only a few miles north of the chisholm crossing. The letter was characteristic of my employer. It contained but one imperative order,that i should touch, either with or without the herd, at camp supply. For some unexplained reason he would make that post his headquarters until after the buford herds had passed that point. The letter concluded with the injunction, in case we met any one, to conceal the ownership of the herd