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This story is about the time that I was a cowhand on the Red River Ranch in Oklahoma. I had to tend to the cattle on horseback. Then, everything changed when the owner of the ranch came and told me that I had to take all the cattle to Dodge City, Kansas so that they can be sold. I saddled up with eight other cowhands and we headed off North. The trail was extremely rough and narrow. Some of the cattle wondered off the trail and got lost in the woods on the up way there. There was one cow in particular that I remember, she got stranded from the herd. We went looking for her. Then, we heard her cry out in pain, so we blazed to the cow of sorrows and when we found her she wasn't alone. To her side was a little, fragile
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