And even in San Antonio and Austin, a man's evil repute means little.
"Then the line between a rustler and a rancher is hard to draw in these wild border days.

Rustling is stealing cattle, and I once heard a well-known rancher say that all rich cattlemen had done a little stealing.

Your father drifted out here, and like a good many others, he succeeded.

It's perhaps just as well not to split hairs, to judge him by the law and morality of a civilized country.

Some way or other he drifted in with bad men.