Juan, have the remuda driven up and let every man saddle his horse.
Several days after this some new horses were added to the remuda of the Lunar Company.
The remuda is at the other end of the pasture under the care of a boy," explained the cowpuncher.
White Stockings, one of the fastest mounts in the remuda of the company, had been brought in from a long hard run within the past half-hour.
Shrill yells rose from the far corner of the horse pasture; there was a rumble of feet, a din of hoofbeats growing nearer, and then with a noise like thunder the remuda poured into the corral.
Maybe some of them ain't quite as good cowboys as you are, but I can depend on them not to turn myremuda loose the first night I leave 'em alone, and I'm going to make them top hands.
Behind him came the horse wrangler and his helper, doing their best to keep the remuda out of the barbed-wire, and jerking up more fence with their ropes than Gus laid down with his nail-puller.
A third and a fourth man leaped in to join the conflict; and as they roped and ran and fought with Dunbar the remuda went crazy with excitement and threatened to break down the fence.
Brig and Bowles stood guard all night and brought up the remudain the morning.
Put them into the pens for the night, and hold the remuda out on the flats.
They ain't a bronk in the remudathat can't throw this Englishman a mile!
Breakfast's waitin' and the remudais in the c'rell!
Consequently the nearby grass is fed down to the roots, and the remuda had to be held up on the high mesa.
He'll be turnin' theremuda loose pretty soon, from the way he's been makin' signs.
The great remuda of over two hundred horses was driven in on the gallop; then the cowboys rounded them up, and each man dropped to the ground.
The shouting of the wranglers and the bells of the remuda came musically as from a great distance.
Fresh horses had been roped from the remuda and were carrying them at an even Spanish jog-trot through the night.
The trail boss had been out at the remuda with the jingler when the trouble began.
Out of the soft shadows of the summer night a boy moved from the remuda toward the camp-fire.
It was possible that the lost broncos had rejoined the remuda of their own accord or had been found by some of the riders gathering up strays.
Hart joined his friend and the two young men walked out to the remuda together.
Even the first view of the remuda revived my spirits, as I had been allotted one hundred fine cow-horses.
Only a few days were required in securing the necessary foremen, a remuda was apportioned to each, and credit for the commissary supplies arranged for, the employment of the men being left entirely to the trail bosses.
I made a trip out to the new ranch, taking along ample winter supplies, two extra lads, and the old remuda of sixty horses.
I hastened home and out to the ranch, gathered our saddle stock, outfitted wagons, and engaged all my old foremen and twenty trusty men, and we started with a remuda of five hundred horses to begin the operations of the coming summer.
I counted the remuda and found them all there, but the wrangler was missing.
The cattle made a few surges, but once the remuda was safe, there was an abundance of help in holding them, and they quieted down before sunrise.
My weakness for a good horse was the secret of much of my success in ranching during the early days, for with a remuda of seventy picked horses it was impossible for any unowned animal to escape us.
Security of the remuda and wagon was a first consideration, and danger of an ambush prevented our men from following up the redskins.
There was no sign of daybreak, and, fearful for the safety of our commissary, we threw a cordon around the remuda and started for camp.
The remuda was running at the time, and as we cut through between it and the savages we gave them the benefit of our rifles and six-shooter in passing.
I had made arrangements to return to Texas with the last one of Major Mabry's outfits, and the wagon and remuda had already started, when I located my traducer in a well-known saloon.
As the herd happened to land on our course, after the usual count the commissary was sent for, and it and the remuda were brought up.
My beeves were sold for delivery north of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the buyers, who were ranchmen as well as army contractors, taking the herd complete, including the remuda and wagon.
Seay and myself put behind us the few miles between the two wagons, and dashed up to mine just as the outfit were corralling the remuda for night-horses.
After the noonday halt, the wrangler and myself took our remuda and went on ahead to the river.
Little time was lost in starting the herds, mine in the lead, while the wagons got away well in advance, accompanied by Forrest's remuda and the isolated contingent of cattle.
Forrest had passed out of sight, Sponsilier's wagon and remuda crossed opposite us, going up the valley, followed by his cattle in loose grazing order, and still we loitered on the hill.
In my remuda over one half the horses were afflicted with ticks, and many of them it was impossible to bridle, owing to the inflamed condition of their ears.
Forrest and I turned to and helped our old foreman cut out his remuda of the year before.
Bob's outfit will go home from Miles, and if he can't sell his remuda he'll bring it up here.
Forrest's outfit had been furnished horses from my remuda for guard duty, and about midnight, wrapping ourselves in slickers, we lay down in a circle with our feet to the fire like cave-dwellers.
We loaned our horses to the wrangler and another man, the remuda was brought in, and before we sat down to the midday meal, every vaquero had a horse under saddle, while two of them had ridden away to look after the grazing cattle.
You have a good remuda without him, and the only way you can get another horse out of that herd is with the permission of Quince Forrest and Tom Quirk.
It started in snickers, and before the cutting back was over developed into peals of laughter, as man after man learned that the dapple gray in Tolleston's remuda was blind.
But as soon as we received any cattle, night-herding the remuda would cease, and we must either hobble or resort to other measures.
At the end of a week I had a remuda of probably two hundred animals.
Then I got an Injin boy to help, and we rustled over the remuda and held them in a blind canon.
The remuda had been driven by its leaders to a corner of the pasture's wire fence, and there held.
In a moment the first of the remuda came into view, trotting forward with the free grace of the unburdened horse.
As they rolled up the lane the freighters could see the chuck wagon drawn up before the house, the remuda milling round the big pasture lot and a number of men moving among the buildings.
From where she rode between Evans and Harris, the girl turned in her saddle and watched two men throw open the gates of the big corral where the remuda was held.
Five miles up the valley, at the spot where Harris had crossed it a few hours before, they found the wagon waiting at the new stand, the corral refashioned and the remuda inside it.
The remuda trailed behind the wagon under the combined supervision of the nighthawk and the wrangler.
The sheriff stripped the saddle from his horse and the wrangler swooped down to haze the animal in with the remuda as Alden joined Harris and the girl.
The scene round Billie was one of strenuous activity, every effort bent toward whipping the remuda into shape for the calf round-up in the least possible space of time.
They drew aside as the remuda thundered past and on toward the corrals.
The jar of hoofs had ceased and she knew that the remuda had bedded down; and having at last reached a decision she fell asleep with the crooning voice of the nighthawk drifting to her ears.
The surplus horses had been cut out and thrown back on the range, only those required for the remuda remaining in the pasture lot.
The remuda streamed down the valley, the two first riders swinging wide to either flank while the nighthawk and wrangler brought up the rear.
You'll be breaking out the remuda right soon now," he suggested.
The night-hawk had relieved the wrangler and she could half-hear, half-feel the low jar of many hoofs as he grazed the remuda slowly up the valley, singing to while away the time.
The hands would start breaking out the remuda the following day.
So they rounded a bend in the creek and came upon the scattered fringe of the remuda cropping steadily at the meadow grass there.
As boss, Johnson had the privilege of topping the remuda for his string--that is to say, he had first choice of all horses.
In the gray of dawn, as the Anvil men were roping their mounts from the remuda and the horses were plunging wildly into the press of their brethren, Lafe called his strawboss and told him to take charge of the work for the day.
The different bunches of horses had seen service on the trail, were gentle to handle, and attention was called to observing each individual horse and the remuda as a whole.
The wagon and remuda never halted; on being joined by the two horsemen, they continued on into the Beaver.
A small remuda was corralled within ropes, running from choice to common horses, all of which were looked over carefully by the trio, including the wagon team.
Early morning found the outfit astir, and as on the previous occasion, the wagon and remuda were started home at daybreak.
Mr. Quince says that that old horse has cow-sense to burn; that he can scent a camp at night, or trail a remudalike a hound.
Instead of allowing the wagon to reach the station, at sunrise on the morning of shipping, it and the remuda were started homeward.
The remuda was in fine condition, four changes of mounts a day was the rule, and on the hour named, the cavalcade moved out, leaving its foreman behind.
After passing the drag end of the herd, the wagon and remuda were sighted, later met, with the foreman still at the rear.
The herd numbered a few over fifteen hundred cattle, the remuda fifty-six horses, a team and wagon, the total contract price of which was a trifle under twenty-five thousand dollars.
But after the first wild dash, the remuda began to scatter, and the Indians gained on the cavalcade, coming fairly abreast and not over four hundred yards distant.
A reduced mount of horses was allowed them, and starting the beeves at daybreak, the wagon and remuda followed several hours later.
The wagon andremuda will start for Hackberry Grove at sun-up.
As the remuda stands, its make-up is tops and tailings.
On the present work, those horses which had proven apt were held in reserve, and while the first contingent of cattle was quieting down, the remuda was brought up and saddles shifted to four cutting horses.
He hired two riders, gathered together a smallremuda of culls, and went into the cattle business with energy.
We-all will tell the old man how tender you was of his remuda stock.
Out near the grub-wagon the remuda was grazing, and thither at intervals came the perspiring horsemen to change their mounts.
He finished yesterday and sent the remuda to the Six Mile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remuda" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
