The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 52
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
in the end of the chuck wagon, and gets a tin plate, knife, fork,
spoon, tin cup and a serving of sugar; then he helps himself to
the food in cafeteria style.
The horse wrangler is the man in charge of the remuda. His
duties consist of guarding the horses during the day, driving them
to water and rounding them up three times per day. He rounds
them up the first time in the morning so that the boys, after they
have made the day's round-up can change for their "circle" horse,
that is, the round-up horse, to their "cutting" horse. These cut-
ting horses are the mounts the boys use in working the round-up.
They cut out the class of cattle wanted from the main herd with
these horses. He rounds them up again about noontime so the
boys can change again when they come to dinner. Some cowboy
guards the horses a few minutes at noon so the horse wrangler
can get a "snack." The third time the horses are rounded up is
just before sundown so the boys can catch their stake horses which
they intend to use on the round-up early the next morning. After
this the horse wrangler drives the horses back in the country to
good grass and water and leaves them until the next day.
Every time the horse wrangler rounds up the horses he gets them
in a small circle just as close together as they can stand. Then the
cowboys make a rope corral around them by tying lariats together.
The horses never attempt to get over this rope until a lariat is
thrown around their neck and the rope corral is let down. This
seems very strange to anyone who is not used to ranch life. The
explanation is very simple. When the cow horse was a colt and
was being "broke" he was put in a corral and a lariat rope was
stretched across the corral from one side to the other about a foot
and a half or two feet high. Then two cowboys with a slicker
each, standing on each side of the rope, would scare the colt, and as
he ran across the tight rope it would throw him and burn his legs
badly. About the time he got up the other cowboy would scare
him back and this was repeated until the colt refused to run over
the rope. A cow horse never forgets this lesson, and that is the
reason they never attempt to get over the rope corral?1 When the
rope corral is completed around the remuda, two of the oldest
hands with the outfit rope the horses for the cowboys as they call
"Cow ponies make good polo ponies. Jimmie Moore, present cook at
the J A Ranch, used to train cow ponies for this purpose.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929, periodical, 1929; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101089/m1/56/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.