minutes, we provided details of what we had found at the Coker ranch and explained where we found Graciela and that we had left her with Lucio, the ranch's other cook. We recounted the burial of the four ranch hands and spelled out our mission to bring the Bledsoe gang to justice, one way or another.

Ba related his adventure after he headed down the river in the rowboat. After floating for several miles, his boat crashed into a boulder and shattered.

Ba managed to swim to shore, but in the process, he had lost what little food he had taken from the storm cellar. He made his way to a road that ran along the banks of the Canadian River and, after walking for a day, managed to get a ride on a freight wagon that was heading north toward a mining operation. "I know Mr. Coker going...

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