This is from Memoirs of a Lawman, edited by Wilson Rockwell (Denver: Sage Books, 1962) compiled from accounts written by C.W. "Doc" Shores, a long-time sheriff of Gunnison, Colorado. He's after outlaws who robbed a train in September, 1891 in Cotopaxi (New Mexico?), and riding posse with him is Tom Horn:

"We continued down the Washita into the Comanche Indian country. Upon reaching their agency at Anadarko, we had covered several hundred miles amd both our horses were sore-footed and tired out. The Indian agent was a Scottish Rite Mason, and in order to get his needed cooperation, I showed him my old Scottish Rite card, which I always carried. I told him that we would like to trade our horses for fresh ones, and he passed the word around to some of his Indians. They assembled a small bunch of their best ponies, and the horse trading was soon in progress. The exchange was made in short order, I paying ten dollars to boot and Horn fifty. Horn was more of a horseman than I and more particular in his choice."

"There were no through roads or trails out of Anadarko going down the Washita. It was a cotton producing area, and what few roads there were led back and forth across the river to the various cotton gins. So, we hired a deputy named Henderson to guide us southward through the brushy, unmarked country."

"When we came in sight of Pauls Valley, a town on the opposite side of the river from the route we were taking, we crossed the bridge into the settlement. We inquired around among the residents, but no one we talked with had seen the men we described. So, we assumed that the fugitives we were after had continued on down the river without stopping off in town." (pp. 314-315)

Doc Shores and Tom Horn eventually caught the robbers. During their arrest, Shores had to restrain Horn who, showing signs of a violent nature that would eventually get him hanged, wanted to kill them outright.

--meursault

Thanks for the post. There is another great version which if I remember correctly closely parallels this one found in Tom Horn's autobiography. I wrote an article on this pursuit in an earlier issue of the Oklahombres Journal.
On the Trail
Diron L. Ahlquist
Secretary/Editor Oklahombres Journal

Interesting. Somehow I missed this when I read the Horn bio. However, there were a lot of roads going down the Washita. The old stage, post, and military road from Anadarko to Fred, Parr, Erin Springs, Beef Creek, and Pauls Valley was still in use. Cotton had just come into large scale production. Horn's bio says they caught Burt Curtis and Peg Leg Watson at Wolfe's house at Washita Station, a community on railroad east of the Washita River between present Wynnewood and Davis. The town was founded by Mat Wolf, a son in law of Dr. T.P.Howell, a mixed blood rancher near Fort Arbuckle. The railroad station there is mentioned frequently in early accounts.