They'd drop in on these little fellers and pass 'em a couple of twenties and make themselves solid for life.

Afterward they used 'em for stoppin' places.
"They'd pull off a couple of hold-ups, then they'd ride off to one of these squatter places and lay up for ten days, maybe, drinkin' and feedin' up themselves and their hosses.

That was the only way they was ever caught.

They was killed off by each other, fighting about the split-up, or something like that.
"But now and then a gang held together long enough to raise so much hell that they got known from one end of the range to the other.

Mostly they held together because they had a leader who knew how to handle 'em and who kept 'em under his thumb.