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After the battle on the Sandy men returned to ranches with the a cattle and began to mark and brand them for the fall round up. and for the market. The best beef was sold off. Along in the winter afterwards we got[[strikeout]] into camp and began to break ponies. Stayed in camp on Denton creek all winter. I was with Crystal in the winter and broke mules and was a sort of general roustabout. No Indians at that time bothered is at all. In the spring we commen ced work for Sam Reynolds further down in the creek lands. He was a big stock man at that time and is now in the banking business to a limited extent. We was there in Denton with him until August [[?]]'75. Making during that time moonlight runs on wild cattle. Then we went from there to Coleman, in Coleman County. There he bought 25.000 steers around the old Stanta Ana[[strikeout]] mountains where now stands the city of the same name. Worked there. When these cattle had been bought and branded and put into shape we drove cattle to grazing. Old man and I then started to return. We met an old scout , who said, "Loook out , the Indians are out and the Commaches are in the west."Hextor, do you think that you and I can fight Indians. Yes. I said, I think that we can.  Well, we will take turns sitting up half the night.  We must not take any chances on loosing  any of our outfit. Old man Sam [[strikeout]]Reynolds, said this to me[[strikeout]]. We came back to our homes and he then bought 5, 000 cattle from a man named John Dawson. We then got these cattle in shape and took [[strikeout]] them  west and grazed them until till the buffalo regions. In Young County. We spent a number of years there working cattle [[insert]]in fall of year and until spring [[/insert]]. Buff alo was as plentiful there as cattle. We had buffalo meat for breakfast, dinner and supper.  I was there in Youn g County until the [[strikeout]] '80. During my first two years there C. C. Fitzgerald was foreman over the ranch.  Then I went from there in '76 and wenr[sic] with J. W. Medlin, L. T. Clark, was his general