The Pilar Hide and Tallow Company were in trouble—their enormous profits looked like dropping if Colonel Charles Goodnight's scheme of driving cattle across country came to fruition. In order to protect their interests the five partners came to an agreement—an agreement that Mark Counter had to brea
From Hide and Horn (A Floating Outfit Book Number 5)
✍ Scribed by Edson, J T
- Book ID
- 108983279
- Publisher
- Piccadilly Publishing
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Series
- Floating Outfit Number 5
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Other States were carved or born,Texas grew from hide and horn.There were problems to be solved before that became true. Where to sell the cattle which swarmed across the Texas ranges and how to get them to the market; also whether sufficient longhorns could be delivered at one time to make a long journey to a market profitable.Charles Goodnight thought he had the answers and aimed to prove it. Backed by Ole Devil Hardin's already legendary floating outfit, he set off with three thousand five hundred head of cattle for distant Fort Sumner. With Dusty Fog as his segundo, Goodnight meant to deliver his herd and so pave the way for Texas to grow from hide and horn.
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