In the twilight, the mournful, the sad, but beautiful ghost of the great golden days of the Sierras, a hand reached out and took Washee-Washee by the queue as a man would take a tethered horse by the lariat.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
Both men had pistols, and each also had a long machete two inches wide hanging with a lariat from his saddle.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
They were abreast, ten feet apart, but the oddest thing was a lariat that dangled between them, from saddle-horn to saddle-horn.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle