It has been nothing unusual for ranchmen to haul cedar posts on wagons forty or fifty miles.
Ranchmen among the high mountains build corrals, pens, sheds, and fences of it; but the fibers of the wood are so twisted and involved that splitting is nearly impossible, and round timbers only are employed.
This was putting a new face on matters, and the ranchmen realized that more serious work was required of them than rounding up the strayed cattle.
He was a powerful, wiry Indian, in middle life, who had long been detested by the ranchmen for his thievish and brutal propensities.
Her eyes, shining with excitement, passed the crowd moving in and out of the store, for already the news of the hold-up had brought riders and ranchmen jogging in to learn the truth of the wild tale that had reached them.
Balancing probabilities, it had seemed to Flatray that these might be the tracks of ranchmen who had arrived after the hold-up and were following the escaping bandits up the lateral.
They were shipped to San Francisco for manufacturing purposes, the oil factories there both supplying the ranchmen with seed and pledging themselves to take the harvest when gathered.
Being questioned on this point, Bozeman as well as the Texans replied that such was undoubtedly the fact, for it was far different from the flimsy structures of wood used by ranchmen in other sections.
Hundreds of cattle had been killed or run off by the Apaches, whose chief hunting grounds are further west, until the ranchmen who essayed the business became discouraged and gave it up.
His wife had gone to San Pedro a couple of days before, under the escort of the two ranchmen hired by him, and he was looking for ’em back every hour.
During the last decade many ranchmen in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, have developed packs of greyhounds able to kill a wolf unassisted.
The men who pursue them for the bounty, or for their fur, as well as the ranchmen who regard them as foes to stock, ordinarily use steel traps.
Nowadays the ranchmen of the cattle country not only use their greyhounds after the jack-rabbit, but also after every other kind of game animal to be found there, the antelope and coyote being especial favorites.
Many ranchmen soon grew to own fine packs, coursing being the sport of all sports for the plains.
It is difficult to obtain accurate data, as the ranchmen believe that any information as to the prevalence of the disorder would interfere with the value of their stock.
A somewhat similar condition to the loco in stock is sometimes attributed by the ranchmen of our Western States to eating various sages.
Your little local crowd of ranchmen and mining men will never be allowed to hold that dam and your ditch right of way; never in this world, Smith.
As if the night of fiascos had been the turning-point, he saw the carefully built reorganization structure, reared by his own efforts upon the foundation laid by Colonel Baldwin and his ranchmen associates, falling to pieces.
I'll promise to break Baldwin in two and throw him and his ranchmen backers out of the Timanyoni.
The two ranchmen were holding a conference in the sitting-room when a Mexican boy came to me at the corrals and said I was wanted in the house.
Sma' wonder he brands sae mony calves and sells mair kye than a' the ither ranchmenin the country.
Many cowboys and ranchmen thought the tool bag was a liquor flask, but the little bottle above mentioned was carried in the knapsack, and everywhere the knapsack went the bottle was sure to go.
The ranchmen don't pretend to house their stock or store up fodder enough to keep them alive when the snow has covered the few spears of grass too deep to be uncovered by pawing.
In time they drive away many horses, and in the old days ranchmen often united and killed wild stallions as they killed wolves.
They were led by Captain Jack Crawford and were in pursuit of the murderous band of Apaches who had been killing ranchmen in the upper country.
Often half a dozen families would arrange a friendly dinner at some neighbor's house, and the hotel men would make a big dinner and invite the ranchmen to come in and enjoy the festivities.
A young man who went under the name of Soapy Wyatte, was working the train on a three-card monte game, and was very successful until he cheated a couple of ranchmen out of quite a sum of money.
What interest had I in a few ranchmen and bullwhackers more or less?
For though Del Pinzo and his crowd knew the ranchmen were in the neighborhood they would, as Snake believed, await the return of the spy they had sent out, before doing anything.
Here the animals were turned loose, their blankets and trappings removed, and the ranchmen themselves at once setting to work to rub the fine creatures down and to supply them with ample fodder for the night.
But the boys were not interested in "young mutton" as Monty called it, and sought the ranchmen at their quarters to learn when they could go fishing, or what was better, hunting.
The house-servants, and such of the ranchmen as would, filed into the spacious music-room and took their seats in reverent quiet.
There was a fairly good team among the ranchmen and they entered into the sport with vim.
In any case they would be safer among theranchmen than here in this lonelier spot, and Lemuel's manner had been quite different from fear.
Sorrel," as his fellow ranchmen called him, had more conceit than common sense.
There was no fellow ranchmen to ridicule his oft-told tales, but eager ears to which they were new; and eyes as eager to behold the scenes of these same marvellous stories.
Ranchmen who own more than a certain amount of acreage, grazing ground and range, are barred from taking any of this Indian land.
And as the sheep are kept constantly on the march, as they greedily eat their way, they spread ruin--at least so the ranchmen thought.
Haven't any idea," answered Bud, glancing back to note that his father and the visiting ranchmen had gone into the house.
Before leaving Bell County, I left word that we could use fifty good men for the trail, but they would have to come recommended by the ranchmen with whom we were dealing.
Four prominent ranchmen were to supply the beeves to the number of three thousand.
I spent two weeks among my ranchmen friends on the headwaters of the Frio and Nueces rivers, and while they were fully awake to the advance in prices, I closed trades on twenty-one thousand two and three year old steers for March delivery.
Ranchmen were so indifferent that many never went off their home range in branding the calf crop, not considering a ten or twenty per cent loss of any importance.
The same group ofranchmen expected to drive another herd the coming spring, and I made it a point to see each one personally, urging that nothing but choice cattle should be sent up the trail.
As to the future, the Illinois buyer could see little to hope for in his own country, but was enthusiastic over the outlook for us ranchmen in the Southwest.
Only a single incident occurred to mar the otherwise pleasant relations with our ranchmen friends.
Our best patrons that fall were small ranchmen from Kansas and Nebraska, every one of whom had coined money on their purchases of the summer before.
One of the ranchmen with whom we were contracting took the insult off my hands and gave the man his choice,--to fight or apologize.
The proposition was a fair one, the ranchmen yielded, and we ran the whole herd through the chute, cutting the brush within a few inches of the end of the tail-bone.
Matters were in an unsettled condition, and less than one per cent of the State's holdings of cattle had found an outside market during the year 1867, though ranchmen in general were hopeful.
The elder Edwards had moved to his present home some fifteen years previous, carrying with him a stock of horses and cattle, which had increased until in 1866 he was regarded as one of the substantial ranchmen in the Brazos valley.
My beeves were sold for delivery north of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the buyers, who were ranchmenas well as army contractors, taking the herd complete, including the remuda and wagon.
Our thoughtful host had sent ranchmen ahead to prepare the place for our reception, and we were as surprised and delighted as he could desire.
Yet we were not especially concerned, as we were near enough to the fort to reach it on short notice, and besides our home there was another house where the ranchmen lived.
We did stay with 'Lias till he got through, then we played ranchmen and made believe round up the cattle the way the boys wrote us they do.
One of the oldest living ranchmen still has a private herd near Amarillo and has made many experiments in breeding the bulls to domestic Galloway cows.
This article also describes the losses of the ranchmen from cattle stealing.
As this sort of game made excellent eating, ranchmen and regular hunters did not hesitate to bring them down at every opportunity.
The report was true, for the horse was what is called by ranchmen a "bad bucker.
The ranchmen up that way have had a pretty bad scare.
Daniels was the man who talked to me, and he says it's a Gordon movement, though the ranchmen are trying to keep it quiet.
All the neighboring ranchmen and homesteaders with their families and all the available cowboys had been bidden to the frolic.
But the ranchmen themselves, with two or three exceptions, were content to be solicitous at long range--an abstention that relieved and at the same time troubled Huntington.
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