Now they are _captured_ as _follows_: Of course, in each range there is _water_, and usually--as I have already said--where there is water there is some small timber; but should there be none upon the range of the herd you wish to _capture_, go some place _else_ and get it, and after picking out a good location somewhere upon the range, build up a high, strong _corral_ large enough to hold the herd you wish to capture. Leave an entrance at one side, and run a lane from the entrance divergingly into the prairie, until the lane is about one hundred yards wide at the mouth. Now for the _chase_. Get four horses, well shod, and put two to a light wagon, and put in feed and provisions for several days; and get a man to drive. Have two good riding-ponies, and tie one behind the wagon and _mount_ the _other_. Now start after the herd in a _walk_, and let the _wagon_ follow just in sight of you. Of course, the first day the mustangs will burn the prairie, and you will not be in sight of them _half the time_; but just keep on, and never break the _walk_. The wagon, of course, will not travel nearly as far as _you_ do, for, as the herd circles, the driver can cut across. Choose a moonlight season, and at first go all night, keeping them excited so that they neither eat nor drink. The second day you can keep in sight all day; but they become very much _excited_ at seeing themselves _pursued_, and will run frantic here and there, and by _cutting across_ you need not go half their distance. You can get to the wagon to _change ponies_ and get a _bite_ when you wish. Go this way, _night_ and _day_, for about _three days_, when they will become hungry and weak, and you can get close. You can now sleep at night and chase during the day. If any of the range has been burned over, or the ground is otherwise rough, their _feet_ become sore and they can be captured _sooner_; but _usually_ about the _tenth day_ you can ride up to the herd and drive them along. When _this_ is the case, take a _whip_ and _force_ them along until they are so worried that you can ride among them and handle them any way. Now drive them to the _corral_ and fasten them in. Now rope them together closely with strong ropes, and drive them to the railroad for _shipment_ or to the _ranch_ to break _for use_. While they are _weak_ they are easily broken. _Large herds_ are often captured in this way; and there are men who, _every spring_ when the grass is short and the ponies are poor, make this a _business_, and from it realize large profits. There are many fine, large, branded horses, which have escaped from the _hunters_, _cow-men_, _emigrants_, and the _Government_, now running with the wild herds, and, of course, belong to whoever captures them. When there are several _large mules_ or _fine horses_ in a bunch, it tickles the hunter mightily; and not having forgotten their _former_ lives, they render the herd easier to be caught, and are not much trouble to re-break.