Bean went over to the store, and soon returned with a straw hat, and dragging a new linen duster by the sleeve. They insisted that 'Gene join them in the celebration, but Hall said the country was settling up with civilized folks, and that he did not aprove of the "rough stuff" they were pulling off, and that he told them as much. Which little lecture on proper etiquette was received with much merriment by the four hilarious men.

In the Texas Panhandle, and along the Texas trail as far north as Dodge City, the gun man was much more in evidence, than in the northern ranges. In the south range country, feuds sprang up that sometimes wiped out an entire outfit. There were many gun fights, and homicide whenever there was the slightest provocation. The northern ranches tried to evade the mistakes of the fire-brand, hairtrigger south.

If a sure-enough bad man became affiliated with an outfit, he was the first one to be let out by the management. Hunter & Evans were not so vigilant as Shiedleys, Daters, Boslers, Coad, Swan, Creighton, Paxton and many others, in keeping out the undesirables, but all had their troubles.

Floyd Grey was a "Bosler terrier" one season, but was let out at its close, as many another was let out for the same reason. Grey

was a very angry man, and said if he ever met George Bosler, he would knock his teeth down his throat with his six-shooter. George died a short time after, so that if the threat was ever put into execution, it was on Another Range.