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Mosty Family History
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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... was only wagon tracks through the woods. We camped by a huge log & set it on re. We slept on the ground & when we woke in the morning we were completely covered with snow. One nite some horse thieves came along & were around our horses. When Dad heard them he jumped & covered one of them with his six-shooter. The man said he was freezing & had only come to the re. The others all disappeared. The one asked if he could lie by the re till morning. He had on a heavy overcoat & layed down with his ...
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... back to the re. Later in the nite he came up screaming murder. The re had rolled down & set his overcoat on re right between the shoulders. Dad had a bucket of water sitting by the front wheel of the wagon. He grabbed the bucket but it was frozen over. He got his ax & chopped a hole in the ice. He held the man down on his face & poured the ice water on his back. When he let the rustler loose he took off into the woods.