_Snapping a Rope on a Horse’s Foot_ 130 _Hillingdon Ranch_ 133 _Fixing a Break in the Wire Fence_ 137 _Gathering the Rope_ 141 _Reaction Equals Action_ 145 _Tail-piece_ 148 _The Cheyenne Type_ 152 _Big Bull_ 155 _One of Williamson’s Stages_ 159 _The Beef Issue at Anadarko_ 163 _Indian Boy and Pinto Pony_ 169 _A Kiowa Maiden_ 175 _A One-company Post at Oklahoma City_ 187 _The Omnipotent Bugler_ 191 _United States Military Post at San Antonio_ 195 _United States Cavalryman in Full Dress_ 199 _United States Military Post--Infantry Parade_ 203 _Fort Houston, at San Antonio--Officers’ Quarters_ 207 _The Barracks, Fort Houston_ 210 _Gateway of the Garden of the Gods, and Pike’s Peak_ 217 _Within the Gates, Garden of the Gods_ 223 _Polo Above the Snow-line at Colorado Springs_ 227 _Mount of the Holy Cross_ 233 _Pike’s Peak from Colorado Springs_ 239 I FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI [Illustration: THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW By Richard Harding Davis.] I FROM SAN ANTONIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI IT is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, that Texas “is one hundred thousand square miles larger than all the Eastern and Middle States, including Maryland and Delaware.” It gives him a sharp sensation of loneliness, a wish to apologize to some one, and he is moved with a sudden desire to get out at the first station and take the next train back, before his presumption is discovered. He might possibly feel equal to the fact that Texas is “larger than all of the Eastern and Middle States,” but this easy addition of one hundred thousand square miles, and the casual throwing in of Maryland and Delaware like potatoes on a basket for good measure, and just as though one or two States more or less did not matter, make him wish he had sensibly confined his observations to that part of the world bounded by Harlem and the Battery.