Cattle Punchers: How the Real Ones, Described by Andy Adams, Compare with the Picturesque Cowboys of Fiction. (NY Times September 5, 1903) American novelists and playwrights have, to the best of their ability, made his familiar with the picturesque and romantic, and,...
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During the age of the Great Cattle Drives, the practice of branding made it easy to identify the owners of cattle. Branding allowed herds to be combined and help fight against rustlers. A man approaches with a glowing iron, fresh from the fire, and clasps this,...
If you’re going to ride trail and drive a herd of cattle along the Chisholm Trail, then you need to make sure that you’ve got a fair stable of horses. Strong horses that comfortable with a cowboy in the saddle on their back. During roundup and the drive,...
When Texas became a part of the United States certain obvious phenomenon of nature were at once recognized. Take a Texan steer, bred and born there, carry him northerly, and the same grass that fatted the Buffalo would improve the gaunt flanks of the southern beast....
A wrangler was someone, usually a young boy, who was employed to handle animals professionally, especially the horses used by cowboys on a cattle drive. The wrangler’s primary responsibility entailed looking after the remuda. The remuda was the herd of horses,...
