James Gordon Bennett took care of him after that, and for eight years before his death he was utterly helpless.

One of the old Two-Bar men tells me that Harry, who though not married, was infatuated with a theatrical celebrity, who frequently visited the Oelrich ranches ; namely, Lillian Langtry, well known on the stage a generation ago.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

AROUND CAMP WAGONS -- A HORSE TRADE WITH DOC. MIDDLETON --

ARBUCKLE'S BREAK POST-- SCOTCHMEN BUY BIG RANCHES

-- TOHN CLAY AND THE TWO-BAR

Merry making around the camp wagons of the round-ups, and in the frontier towns was of the cruder sort, if you measure by the standards of the effete east. But wags, and there are wags everywhere, and humor, uses the instruments at hand. If it does not appeal to cultivated taste, it is due to the setting.

Stories are told of the old "desert rats" whose passion for gambling took every conceivable turn, and used every excuse to make a wager. It was the monotonous life of the desert which made them seek diversion in gambling. The life of the early cowboy was a gamble ; a fair-paid hazard whether one would return from the round-up, whole or in pieces, or at all.

One of the old time boys, much of whose life had been spent in the saddle, was Chris Streeks. He was here in the days when the Likens-Middleton contest, or feud, or man hunt, was stirring to partisanship every dweller or transient between Colorado and the Dakotas. Yet old as he was to the ways of the round-up, he, in an unguarded instant, let a wild horse at the end of his lariat catch the horse he was riding with the taut rope in a sidewise position. Anyone versed in the work of the range knows that to meet the jerk at the end of a rope it to have the horse end to, with the front end towards the careening animal.