He turned to the horse thief sitting by the road.
I hear they're barely good enough to stop horse thieves.
About three hundred yards down the road the horse thieves were trying to come to terms with a new experience.
He went with you on a hell of a hard ride after some horse thieves.
Creed didn't place himself into the story, but did know the horse thief who lost his head.
An Indian who was a good horse thief, he could have the pick of the girls in the tribe.
"Three months later he was hanged as a horse thief."
Even though the horse thieves were down in that tangle it was not going to be simple to get at them.
It figured that a horse thief had an eye for a good animal.
"After all, this is where we used to hang horse thieves."