horse thief

ranching on foot
I helped with the haying, kept the wild horse out of the pasture, wheat fields and herded the cows. I did this all on foot.

Somebodies horse that got lose, came into our corral, one of the horse looked like it was staving to death. I caught the horse and had papa get an old saddle and fix it up for me so I could ride the horse. I called the horse Windjammer.

I got on that old horse, rode it around the corral for awhile, then turned all the other horse out, I keep Windjammer. Boy, that horses got fat while with me. I would chase the wild horse and herd the cows on him.

One day Bob was riding Windjammer and I was riding Baba, we went into town. We brought some candy to take home. We decided to have a race. That was the fastest horse that I ever saw, he out ran old Baba, Baba was a racehorse, but he could not keep up with Windjammer. Windjammer took the bit in his teeth and ran all the way home and right into the barn. Bob could not strop him. Bob lost all the candy and we had to go back and pick it up. Bob fixed a chain stop so the horse could not take the bit in his teeth again.

horse thief?
I rode that horse all summer, until the owner came to get him. They were going to put me in Jail for stealing the horse. I think papa talk them out of putting me in jail.

After they took Windjammer, Chick brought another horse down to the ranch. I went out to the corral and caught him, put a saddle on him and rode him to the store. When I got ready to go back home, a man came out and he ask me where I got the horse. I told him that the horse belonged to Charlie Steele and that I was his sister. He said that he trade chick the horse, because he could not ride him, he would buck him off every time he got on the horse and here you are riding him. I told the man that I never know that about the horse, if I had, I would not of rode him.