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...organized in Arizona a plan for accustoming men and horses to severe work by rides across the plains by a party of " raiders, " followed by another of "pursuers. " The parties were usually about twenty strong. The pursuers were not allowed to start until eighteen hours after the raiders, but the raiders were bound to rest six hours after marching eighteen hours, and again twelve after marching twelve more. The pur- WHO WINS THE PRIZE? 83 suers could " go as you please, " but were ordered not to injure stock by hard riding. Of these rides, which are not under the spur of compulsion, a few may be given as of interest. On September 17th, Lieutenant Scott, Sixth Cavalry, and twenty-five men, started from Fort Stanton towards Fort Bayard, and was overtaken in forty-two and one half hours marching time, at a distance of one hun- dred and thirty miles. The pursuers, Lieutenant Persh- ing and twenty - seven men, made the one hundred and thirty miles in fifty-four and one -half hours from start...

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