Mr. Fletcher offers Rowdy $6,000 to get 1500 head to Bent Fork in six weeks or less.  There is a penalty of $30 for each head that doesn't make it.  Lash Whitcomb, one of Fletcher's men is going along as Segundo (#2 man).  Lash and Rowdy disagree on which trail to take.  Rowdy checks his out.  It leads to a box canyon.  Rowdy's horse hits a chuckhole and he is thrown and breaks some ribs.  Rowdy tells Lash to take over.  Ten miles and three days from Bent Fork, Sheriff John Keeley, says there is a sixty day quarantine on Texas cattle.