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Title: Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Dacus, J. A. (Joseph A.)
Subjects: James, Frank, 1844-1915 James, Jesse, 1847-1882 Younger, Cole, 1844-1916 Younger, John, 1846-1874 Brigands and robbers
Publisher: Cincinnati : Cinncinnati Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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hief rode on toward*the settlements of the hated, as well as dreadedTexans. Before dawn they found shelter in a patchof chaparral in the valley of an affluent of the RioPecos. No one had seen them. Thirty miles andmore they had ridden in the direction of the fatherds of the Texans. The day passed away, andonce more the curtain of night fell, and the Mexicanraiders rode in its shadow. By dawnthey had reachedthe vicinity of a well stocked ranche. A conven-ient shelter was sought and found near a littlestream. The raiders were many miles from El Pasonow, and the valleys and the hill slopes, and thelower plains were dotted with great herds of cattle.But the rancheros had not yet discovered the pres-ence of the enemy and rested in fancied security. Palacios and his band hovered near the herds allday. Men were sent out to ascertain the number ofherdsmen attending the different droves. All thistime the horses of the raiders were carefully con-cealed in a thicket by the bank of a stream. When
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319 320 FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. the evening came on, Palacios was well informed ofthe locality of all the herds in his immediate neigh-borhood. Dividing his men into two bands, overone of which he appointed a notorious murdererfrom Mier, named Jesus Almonte, and assumed com-mand of the other in person. The time appointedfor the stampede of the herds was ten oclock atnight. At that hour the western herdsmen are al-most always sound asleep. Palacios was certain thathis presence on the American side of the Rio Grandewas not known. He had met no one, and his scoutshad reported everything quiet among the herdsmen.Ten oclock came. The Mexican robbers, wellarmed and splendidly mounted, quietly left theircovert. Almonte and his band proceeded two and ahalf or three miles up the stream where a large herdof cattle were corraled. Palacios went down thecreek to *stampede another herd of seven or eighthundred head. The process of stampeding isthoroughly understood by the Mexicans. Theherdsmen were

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