The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-25
ROUNDING UP HORSES,
Exciting Feature of Life on the Hill
Ranges of Montana.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
did you ever see a horse round-up?"
queried the stockman. "No?" Wen you've
missed the sight of your life. A cattle
roundup amt in it with a horse roundup.
and I ought to know, for I've been in some
of the biggest of both kinds A cattle
roundup is exciting enough, perhaps, with
the saddling up, The drive, the night herd.
the stampede and all that, but if you want
real action you want TO see horse round
up. 1 guess it would be pretty hard to find
a horse roundup nowadays. If horses are
valuable they don't let EN- loose like that
ana real Wild range horses are hardly
worth rounding up any more. When was
up in Montana in 1892 there was a horse
roundup on nearly every range. The
Swedes and Norwegians were coming into
Dakota and taking up the wheat lands.
They had some money, but not very much.
They had to have horses but they couldn't
pay over $50 or SlOO a team, so they bought
almost anything in the shape of a horse
that was brokE enough to put a harness
on.
Range horses were pretty cheap I'D in
Montana then. Some buyers used to nut
out standing offer of $25 a head for any
old. They'd collect hundreds of these. take
a bunch of horse wranglers and riders win
them antdrive overland to Dakota. The
men would be breaking horses to ride and
drive all the way down. They'd go to some
Dakota town and rent a corral Here
they have headquarters They'd break
horses day and night and it wouldn't cost
nlueh Tor feed, because they'd herd the
punch out on the prairie. 1t used 10 be a
what l started to tell you about.
For ten years before this the rancbars
had been raising horses in Northern Mon
tana Just dke they raised cattle. Thai is
they'd let them run loose all the vear
round. In the summer they'd have COLI
roundup just like calf roundup onIv
they pun II OIL toward fall, just before
the Deer gather. The horsemen would hold
meeting and agree upon the boundarIas
Of big circle say go miles across Taok
one would furnish so many men and saJSIa
horses, ana they'd start on a certain da,,
on the outside of this circle ana drive al,
the horses they found toward Tho $50, 90
where there was big corral. This corral
mad big wings built, one from il leadine 70
the gate, because driving horses was
dlferent thing from driving even Tho nil.
est kind of cattle VIM
The men as they rode from the o,,.a,,.
OF the circle would start the bands ~ ,,,,iS
horses toward this corral Thev,d 80,
them as gently as they could b,,t 49,
horses were as wild as deer ana th<.. .i
run like the wind. Each dav Inc 49,. =
wranglers would get nearer and nea,ar ,, se
corral. The circle would get srnal1a, -
smaller and it would BERN 10 -, anu
though all the horses in the worsI IN ,., as
grazing and running In those bn- VIZ
valleys. After two or three DAYS the MIA S
STOCK would get more accustomed M saa IT,
the horsemen and they were easier -
drive easier 10
BY the time the circle was dravs, ..,.,
in five or six miles Of the corro, vim, WIN
would get exciting There Uo,id mugs
or 1000 head Of horses inside The li,'. o'oV v
it puzzled the riders TO keep The ia ,''e s ana
spreading. The bands which had - - On ON
customed TO run together would lssse "a az
~ well punched, but the stalIions ple,-
break away once in a white ana "ouiu
hght with some stranger. II wss ~
work for the riders and took lots &c uulek
horses, for every one rode at ton sneed l',
the time. wy speed all
These horses were a pretty stsh. IN,
shaggy coats, long names and taiIs S,,, win
ing the ground. Once in a will sweep
stanton would be found herding NE Use
ny ana oHering battle to a man on ba LII
back Sometimes we had to sb1at . piss-
they made so much trouble Tbo. 'l,elh
me cutting out of the mares and cote es ait
Soi's "ouia be branded and they ana tbsis