La Rue intended this year to have it stretched from the Roundup to the Wagon-Tire House.
Frosty and the Signorina forbore to go upon the roof of the Roundup to receive Minnie, until they should see her start from the roof of the hotel.
A wire had been stretched across Comanche Street from the top of the Roundup to the top of the Wagon-Tire House, and upon this was to be given the most ambitious performance of the evening, "Columbia Enlightening the World.
I laid down and slept for twenty hours, and when I reported at the roundup with my four hosses and the two Injun ponies besides, I got a hearty handshake all around.
The men who lost their hosses crawled under the front end of the big heavy roundup wagon, and for a wonder the herd didn't overturn the wagon, although lots of them broke their horns on it and some broke their legs.
It seemed each of us had dozens of dead friends who had met their doom by crawling into a roundup bed at night without shaking the blankets only to find a couple of rattle-snakes coiled up inside.
I didn't expect to meet any mavericks, as it was just after the spring roundup and there wasn't a chance in a hundred of seeing one.
Only for this harassment of the Dot sheep, the roundup wagons would be loaded and ready to rattle abroad over the land.
Meadow larks and curlews and little, pert-eyed ground sparrows called out to them that roundup time was come.
I've just had a roundup with Miss Ellington about this.
Not for nothing had he ridden on the roundup for many years.
We did aim to use them in some roundup sets, but I expect you've got another use for them.
When he heard some of the others complain about long hours and dangerous stunts he wished they could have ridden on the roundup for the Lone Star outfit about a week.
A roundupdistrict is usually limited to the valley of some large stream, or its boundaries are designated by other prominent and well-known landmarks.
Thus the outfit moves slowly up the stream, making a clean sweep of everything to the middle of the divides on the east and west, until the Wyoming roundup on the same stream is met coming down.
The object of the fall roundup is to gather in and cut out the fat steers and drive them to the railroad stations for shipment to Eastern markets.
He did believe--or he made himself think he believed--that the only sensible thing to do right then was to take the boys and go out and start a roundup of his own.
I've about made up my mind to take the chuck-wagon to town and stock it with grub, and hit out on roundup t'morrer or next day.
But anyway, I want the roundup outfit ready to start just as soon as possible--tomorrow, if we could get it together in time.
But he won't stay around here much longer; he's taken enough spring roundup stuff now for half a dozen pictures.
The rounduptents of the Flying U Feature Film Company stood white as new snow in the moonlight, though daylight showed them an odd, light-blue tint for photographic purposes.
So far had spring roundup progressed that Luck was holding the camp in Tijeras Arroyo for picture-making only.
Pink had himself been listening to the call of the wide spaces, and the mere mention of roundup had a thrill for him.
He had been terribly excited and full of enthusiasm for the picture at the time the tongue was cracked, but now he looked upon it merely as a vital weakness in his roundup outfit.
Soon after the sun rose next morning Mr. Sturgis's horses were being cut out of the bunch and turned into one of the big corrals, and by ten o'clock the horse roundup had started on its way again, and all the strangers with it.
In the course of two or three days the horse roundup will be here, and for a day or two we'll all be busy cutting out horses and branding colts.
Some of the poles in the big corral are getting pretty weak, and as soon as the roundup has passed, we may as well make that corral over.
Since the horse roundup had left, no strangers had been seen.
I don't expect the roundup will fetch them horses in, but it may.
The roundupought to be along here most any time now, and when it gets here you'll see quite a lot of fun when we get to working them.
Mindful of his vow, he had bought a gun in Billings, but he had not yet learned to hit anything he aimed at; for firearms are hushed in roundup camps, except when dire necessity breeds a law of its own.
No, and the Lazy Eight never had to work the Yellowstone range on spring roundup before either," Park told her meaningly.
And there was the beef roundup going to start before long--he really ought to stay and take that in; there would be some fine chances for pictures.
By the time the horse roundup was over, one Philip Thurston was in pessimistic mood and quite ready to follow the wagons, the farther the better.
When Hank heard that he was home to stay--at least until he could join theroundup again--he didn't say a word for full five minutes.
There would be no calf roundup proper that spring, for all calves were branded as they were gathered.
Then, with Mona once more in the saddle, and with Thurston leading Sunfish by the bridle-rein, they trailed damply and happily up the long ridge to where the white tents of the roundup gleamed sharply against the sky-line.
Later his old cowboy friend of the roundup arrived on the range with a trail herd of cattle from Texas.
When the roundup began he found that he was far from forgotten.
When springtime came Pan joined the roundup in earnest, for part of the cattle and outfit now belonged to his father.
That roundupwas prolific of wonderful experiences.
That roundup was Pan's real introduction to the raw range.
Doctor Dell had told him that he could go on roundup some day--the Kid had decided that this was the day, but that it would be foolish to mention the decision to anyone.
If one of the boys left to try other things and other fields, the Old Man considered him gone on a vacation and expected him back when spring roundup approached.
A day or two before the general roundup Landy and Flinthead had turned out the gentle cattle that stayed around the barns and sheds to mingle with nervous yearlings that headquartered at the Cliffs.
On the morning of the roundup young Goff and Flinthead made a wide detour to appear at the easternmost side.
A veteran cow hand or a frequenter of the modern rodeo would have walked out on the roundup of the scattered kine of the Bar-O ranch on this gray October day.
Jakie was a chef, trained to his profession in well-appointed kitchens and with assistance always at hand; which is a trade apart from cooking for a roundup crew.
Under the spell of fancy he had done more than make the roan unpopular as a roundup horse; he had made him a celebrity in the way of outlaw horses.
And in the Flying U coulee, just across the creek from the corrals, still rested the rounduptents for a space.
General roundup was about to start, down that way, and there was stock bought by the Flying U which ranged north of the Bear Paws.
The visitors, headed by their host, swooped down upon the roundup wagons just when the boys were gathered together for a cigarette or two apiece and a little talk before rolling in.
Not often does it fall to the lot of a cowboy to have served to him stuffed olives and lobster salad with mayonnaise dressing, French fried potatoes and cream puffs from the mess-tent of a roundup outfit.
Get busy, Uncle Peter, and get your outfit together; you've boasted that a roundup can beat the army in getting under way quickly, now let us have a practical demonstration.
For the second time the Flying U roundup was brought to an involuntary pause because of its cook.
The "rough string," as the bad horses were called, was corralled, and the men made merry with the roundup crew.
Except for that willing service, Jakie would have been quite overwhelmed by the many and peculiar duties of a roundup cook.
The roundup boss gave his employer a look of disgust and walked away; the crew took it that he went off to some secluded place to swear.
To bring it to pass, he would be obliged to impress the roundup cook and part of the crew.
Next day the scene of the roundup was changed, and the mustangs were forgotten.
The spring roundup was the big event of the season.
When it was not a question of roundup or herding cattle, or driving them to new grazing lands, the men at the ranch house broke in horses, mended their saddles and practised with the rope.
So he stayed out on the roundup for three days, suffering the intensest pain all the while, but never saying a word about it to anyone.
Roosevelt welcomed roundup work as a relief to the monotony of the daily tasks on the ranch.
The most exciting and dangerous part of the roundup comes when the cattle are stampeded by a storm or through fright.
Out-of-the-way parts of the country where cattle were supposed to have wandered had to be searched, so that the roundup usually extended for six or seven weeks, with no rest for the herders.
He was ten when this was discussed around a spring roundup fire, and he had studied the matter for a few minutes and then had spoken boldly his mind.
You got to Laramie, all right, but he didn't tell father in time to make a roundupback in the foothills.
The town, if it were a town, could wait; the roundupmight not.
Too often had he made dubious soup of his dishwater and the leavings from a roundup crew's dinner, and watched blanketed bucks smack lips over the mess, to run from them now without feeling utterly disgusted with life.
He did not know that when he left theroundup his going had been carefully noted, and that he was no sooner out of sight than Dirk Tracy was riding cautiously on his trail.
I watched him solemnly pounding the coffee with the butt end of his revolver, and then boiling the water and frying his bacon, just as if he had been in the lee of the roundup wagon somewhere out on the plains.
Besides, if you're taking part in the roundup you really should get some sleep.
I'll have a big roundup and dispose of every Longhorn I own.
Don't forget that theroundup starts tomorrow at daybreak," she called to Cecil and Helena as the couple dismounted and walked toward the house.
I mean to find out as soon as we get this roundup off our hands, Lefty.
While two of his men were working the herd on the roundup ground, Lafe sat Tommy on the outskirts, making one of the cordon of riders that surrounded the cattle and kept them in.
He was working through the roundup as strayman for the Gourd.
They came to see that the calves belonging to any of their cows that might be in a roundup got the proper brand; and they received free chuck, and worked as members of the outfit.
Consequently, when the Anvil wagon went on its roundup and began gathering cows and calves from valley and hill and brakes, it was joined at various points by nesters.
For that reason the language used on the general roundup is at times grammatically incorrect, and many of our leading cowboys spell "cavvy-yard" with a "k.
Early next morning the leaders of the roundup party, engaged in gathering up the cattle on the range, swung across the prairie in a great semicircle, sweeping before them in one huge drive, everything of the cow kind.
The two animals fell in with more of their kind as the trails converged until, by the time the roundup ground was reached, there were more than fifteen hundred cattle of all ages and sexes gathered in one great bunch.
Crown Prince of Sweden and Party at Buffalo Roundupin Yellowstone Park.
