I was riding down the Yellowstone River east of Miles City, Montana around 1900. That’s when I met XIT cowboy Bob Fudge. I had heard about him and was thrilled to meet him. You see, Bob began his XIT career breaking horses for them in Texas as a kid in 1877 – big for his age of 15. The ranch was putting together herds of steers to trail north. That same year he made his first trail drive to Montana ending up on the Little Bighorn River in the shadow of the Bighorn Mountains. He returned to Texas after that...