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He left Santa Fe in a sweeping gallop, and
that was the pace he kept up during nearly
every hour of the time until he fell fainting
from his foam covered horse in the square in
Independence. No man could keep up with the
rider and he would have killed every horse in
the west rather than have failed his undertak-
ing. It took just five days and nineteen hours
to perform the feat, and it cost the lives of sev-
eral of his best horses. After being carried into
a room of the old hotel at Independence, Aubrey
lay for forty-eight hours in a dead stupor be-
fore he came to his senses. He never would
have recovered from the shock had it not been
for his wonderful constitution. The feat was
unanimously regarded by western men as the
greatest exhibition of strength and endurance
ever known on the plains.