Philip of Texas: A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas

CONTENTS

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My Dreams of a Sheep Ranch	9
Sheep Raising	10
Herding Sheep	12
Something about Texas	14
Land Grants	15
The "Texas Fever"	16
Why I Wanted to Go into Texas	18
Hunting in Texas	19
Father Goes to Spy Out the Land	21
Our Plantation in Mississippi	23
Father Comes Home	24
The Bigness of Texas	25
Where We Were Going	26
What I Hoped to Do	28
Cattle Driving	29
How We Set Out	31
A Laborious Journey	32
Comanche Indians	35
Father Comes to My Rescue	36
The Arrival at Fort Towson	39
Preparing for a Storm	40
A Dry "Norther"	42
Two Kinds of "Northers"	43
How Turkeys Kill Rattlesnakes	46
Deer and Rattlesnakes	47
Making a Corral of Wagons	49
On the Trail Once More	51
Mesquite	52
A Texas Sheep Ranch	54
The Profits from Sheep Raising	55
Father's Land Claim	56
Spanish Measurements	57
The Chaparral Cock	57
Our First Night on the Trinity	59
Standing Guard	60
A Turkey Buzzard	62
Plans for Building a House	64
The Cook Shanty	66
A Storm of Rain	68
A Day of Discomfort	69
Thinking of the Old Home	70
Waiting for the Sun	72
Too Much Water	74
The Stream Rising	76
Trying to Save the Stock	77
The Animals Stampeded	79
Saving Our Own Lives	81
A Raging Torrent	83
A Time of Disaster	84
The Flood Subsiding	86
A Jack Rabbit	88
Repairing Damages	90
Rounding up the Live Stock	91
The First Meal after the Flood	93
Waiting for Father	94
Recovering Our Goods	97
Setting to Work in Good Earnest	98
Sawing Out Lumber	100
Laboring in the Saw Pit	102
Wild Cattle	104
A Disagreeable Intruder	105
Odd Hunting	107
A Supply of Fresh Meat	109
"Jerking" Beef	111
Searching for the Cattle Again	113
Our New Home	114
Planting, and Building Corrals	115
Bar-O Ranch	117
An Odd Cart	118
The Visitors	120
Zeba's Curiosity	121
Possible Treachery	123
Suspicious Behavior	123
Gyp's Fight with a Cougar	125
In a Dangerous Position	127
Hunting Wild Hogs	129
Treed by Peccaries	130
Gyp's Obedience	133
My Carelessness	135
Vicious Little Animals	137
Father Comes to the Rescue	138
The Increase in My Flock	141
Unrest of the Indians	143
Texas Joins the Union	144
War with Mexico	147
Selling Wool	149
Peace on the Trinity	151
My Dream Fulfilled	152

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