The Bit of Crazy Cowboy in Paz
Before you read this, you should start with The Tale of the Banditos.
the Crazy Cowboy had been spending the best part of 7 years in Paz, Mexico, working at the bar, moving his way up, learning Spanish, and acquiring a taste for liquor. After he moved on from cleaning up the bar, he eventually became an assistant bar tender. The men would come in, sometimes with girls, get drunk, and leave. It was Crazy's job to make sure that they got their drinks fast, because most of these men were criminals who found Paz to be a wonderland for girls and drinks, and there was no law that could contain them. They did live by a code, the criminals and Banditos. They never caused too much of a problem to the towns people, those that served them the drinks. Crazy found it was nice.
After a while of serving, he bought a camera, a very crude camera, and he started to offer to take pictures of the Banditos and their gangs or whatever they wanted in the pictures. He made a lot of money on those, they were so happy to have a picture of themselves that they payed him well. He became very rich, and he decided to stop working. He spent his days sleeping, and his nights drinking with people. He blended in very well, speaking Spanish and having a tan, and he knew the culture. He bought a bar, but could not manage it, he gave it to the son of the Bandito that brought him here, he was thankful for picking him up in the desert. Crazy Cowboy had the drinks whenever he wanted, and a place to sleep, he had no worries. The natives started calling him Crazy Cowboy because he would get up on a horse drunk and ride around a hay covered area moving in all such directions singing.
It was the moments he was beyond belief drunk that got him in trouble. When Crazy got really drunk, he start speaking in English, about his times in San Antonia. He would be talking about how he was always with Henry Carver, and how the Cowboys that lived there would always pick on him because he was an Indian, or a Mexican. And then, one night, he spoke something, that no one expected him to speak, that he had promised never to utter.
... and then, a few days before I left San Antonia for good, rotten town, I was with that guy, the Printer Horse, Horace, or what, and he and I we went outside San Anto..nia... and we started digging... and we went out there with money... lots of mon....ey... he had been keeping money.. he had robbed banks in America, and he and I... buried the money. It was a lot of money... more than I had ever se...en ... He just kept on putting all this money into a trun...k... and we dug and we covered it up. And it is still there, about.... 50,000 dollars I bet... and some pretty other jewelry and things... but the money.. I had never seen so much mon...ey... and it is still there... buried somewhere up there....
At that same time, in the bar, was a Bandito named "El Commotion" and his gang, sitting at the table, and from that all that talk of 50,000 dollars and San Antonia his head perked up, and listened. El Commotion walked over and try to get the passed out Crazy Cowboy to wake and say some more of this money buried outside of San Antonia. El Commotion had a conversation with the bar tender, and learned about Crazy Cowboy, how he was from the states and his whole journey down South into Paz, Mexico, and how it was his bar they were all in. The bartender, the son of the Bandito who spoke English, did not like El Commotion hanging around his boss so much like that, seemed like was going to rob him or something. El Commotion and his gang were known far and wide for being ruthless pirates of the sea. They lived by the Bandito code, but they had no problem with stealing and killing. It was said that they had a secret hideout in the middle of Mexico, between the coasts of "la Baja," but it could just have been true that they were just nomads riding around causing trouble.
The bartender said it was about time for the bar to close shop for the night. El Commotion was still very much hooked on what Crazy Cowboy had said, and Crazy was waking up a bit. So, Crazy said he wanted to find treasure out on the sea, exclaiming he was a pirate. El Commotion took him outside, almost was carrying and they got into a wagon and rode away. It was El Commotion and his companion Banditos riding away Northward toward the United States, with a passed out Crazy Cowboy, who occasionally awoke to vomit off the side, the bumpy ride did not help him. The Crazy Cowboy had left Paz, unwillingly, in the back of a wagon being piloted by the the greedy El Commotion. El Commotion and his gang were headed North and going to get the money, with the help of their map, the Crazy Cowboy.