The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-21
THE GENUINE COWBOY
DESCRIBED ny A MAN WHO Talks
FROM EXPERIENCE.
my AMOUNT OF Hard work, win
"'ncr Features Calculated to
""mren Youthful Enthusi-
nsm-HorScmnnship

'i'sl boys In some stage Of their lives
se' the wild West fever. This was OK.
"e'lE my case. Being naturally fond of
hunting riding and rouphug, and having
I my brain crowded full of these stories thar
lel so little of the true life Of cowboy.
! thought } would be in a perfect heaven
IL could only get on the roundup" But
found out afterwards to my sorrow that 1t
more closely resemhled the other place.
AT the beginning Of my sixteenth year.
got a chance to work ON ranch In
the Bad Lands OF North Dakota Wei. l
knew about us much of the appearance Of
the Bad Lands as broncho docs of oats.
My expectation was to see a level prairie
as far AS my sight would carry, with roll
ing green grass about as high as u horse.
What l did see looked like the clay mod
els OF a mountainous country on large
scale Barren bu,tes of red and white clay,
the open country between covered with
scrubby grass, sage grass and cactl and
the town-well, the less we say OF 1t the
better. But as boy and baggage-more
boy than baggage-got there at Z a. m,
ihey mad to play game OF frce2e-out until
about II O'clock when a real. live man
was seen in the town" About noon Mir.
NJ, the ranch owner arrived with his
team of bronchos and l was only too GLAD
to start for the ranch. As we had twenty
five miles to 20 and had Go ford the Lit
Tie Missouri river over twenty times
mad plenty of uae for imagining how it
would all look and how would be rc-
,,,,,.., "o"''' Wv
''', oS tue cowboys. AT last AFTER hVe
,'y''9 '','e' we arrived AT the lons-IooNel
-, ''''',- 'i,' o''''"s o' seNe'''
7"si'"eIu uoES' Maybe wasn't dlsappolul-
ed with my first sight of q rauCh | had
expected TO see the COW puuehcrs at work
with the cattle on the ranch. but / founu
out that they were ont in the open coun-
iry on the roundup and that the only work
that was done around the home ranch
was jus, what you may see on any Eust-
ern farm with the execution of breaking
bronchos and branding colts
CHARACTERISTICS on RANr,rfaBs
,,
ne majority Oh ranches you see IN ihat
county DeIo"6 10 what are called rang
20 s. HaI ~ d man mas " shlil amount
o. money 10 lhFeat-hot enough 10 buy
'Hous"'l"9 "i CallIt 3he hlIe humpef
", COW punoHeIs-oul ne takes out
= ''' O. 1~" ''"A 7-', "'i' S"I'tH "t'H
guards Them from the wolves harG Win
lers ana stealing, so that they greatly in
crease In number lie mas Few hired
hands to help put up hay in the sum
mer ami take care of the stock in winter
~" 'HtSe are ho' Ita' COWBOYS OF 60"
puncners, as they are known in the West,
bur simply farm hands. The large cattle
owners or companies buy thousands OF
cattle 10 begin with and keep adding each
year. These cattle are not kept at the
owners ranch, but are branded and all
lowed to run over the whole state until
Old enough TO strip East for beef The COM
pany nts out what is called an outut,
usually consisting of the boss" a cook,
with his mess wagon, two horse wrauglers
TO take care OF The horses the boys ride
and about eigu ol ten COW punchers to
brand ard ship the cattle.
While working through the summer on
NJ. ; ranch ! learned how to Iide-after be-
INK pitched cG more times than | have
fingers and tces-as well as how 10 rope,
throw and brand cattle, ana most all the
other work done by a COW puueher Be-
side this l got plenty of chances to nuut,
for ! had to supply the ranch with fresh
me- i','''i i ta' ''w wa. l%',' Lnt IIl-e