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Show " This is tape number two of interview number two between Gary Shumway, interviewer, and Albert R. Lyman, interviewee, in Blanding, Utah on July 31, 1968, S: Brother Lyman, you were just talking about having Posey helping you with your cattle up on Elk Mountain, go ahead at this point. L: Yes, I had to bring them across the mountain into this country and I had him helping me, and he knew what he was doing. He was good help, he was willing. And I sat with him around the campfire in the evening and looked at him, I recognized that there was ability there. And I thought that if maybe I had been as he was, I would have been worse than he was in what he did. But I would tell him what to do, I'd tell him at night, ' Now Posey, I want you to go out in the morning and have those horses in here by daylight so we can move these cattle.' And he would go, now I had trouble with him after that because at that time he had a horse of mine that I knew about and later on I had trouble. That's too much of a story to tell about here. It goes into a whole lot of things, more than I can tell. But when he went off down in there, of course I was not feeling kindly towards him, and when he came back if took me some time for me to be reconciled to him again. But I felt very kindly toward him. In my book, Outlaw on Navajo Mountain, in the latter part of it that I've spoken about my personal interest in Posey, and I've said among other things, that when I go into the world, as I expect to not so very |