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,...
