The Black Mustanger

1885 · 32 pages

The Black Mustanger; or, The Wild-Horse Hunters By Captain Mayne Reid and Captain Frederick Whittaker, this serial adventure follows wild-horse hunters on the Texas frontier. The opening depicts professional mustangers driving an exhausted herd of over a hundred wild horses toward a cunningly constructed corral. Through relentless pursuit across days and nights—denying the animals food, water, and rest—the hunters exhaust the horses into submission, then trap them behind converging fences and rails. The narrative then shifts to Colonel William Magoffin's emigrant party, traveling by wagon across the prairie with family members, enslaved workers, cattle, and attendants. Magoffin, a former military officer from Tennessee, seeks a settlement site in the Cross Timbers region. His party includes his fair-haired daughter Tennessee and his Creole niece Louisiana Dupre, along with his nephew Eugene. The group debates whether the fertile prairie land suits cotton, tobacco, or sugar cultivation before deciding to establish their homestead there.

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