Part 3, Chapter 22 Summary

Tom and Red travel over two days to get to Red's spread, where he meets Meo, a Mexican ex-bronco rider, who now cooks for Red. Red told the agent he would see that Tom had a home and learns a trade and he plans to train him to be a bronco twister and ride in rodeos.

Tom begins his training the next day. First, he rides the horses open, like he did back on the sagebrush range. Tom's knowledge of the horse's rhythm and timing began to return, however, these horses are bigger and stronger than the Indian ponies he had learned to ride. Next, Red works him coming out of the chute. At one point, Tom grabs the saddle to steady himself on one bronco and Red chews him out for not riding 'clean'. The work is hard and Tom...