True Eveyday Life Of A Cowboy In The Old West.

[Dispatch]

Thats great to hear, had no idea that it is still so massive. I would like to see it for myself, maybe even work on one. As Shotgun said, it is all corporate business. You know right now, some corporation is just dying to take over someones ranch and put up a Wal-Mart or low income housing project. American farms have been endangered for the same reasons. The civilwar battlefields are slowly disappering everyday. I hope I don't live to see the day when they are all gone.   

[Delmonico]

Thats great to hear, had no idea that it is still so massive. I would like to see it for myself, maybe even work on one. As Shotgun said, it is all corporate business. You know right now, some corporation is just dying to take over someones ranch and put up a Wal-Mart or low income housing project. American farms have been endangered for the same reasons. The civilwar battlefields are slowly disappering everyday. I hope I don't live to see the day when they are all gone.   

If you think it's all "corporate bussiness" you both better think again.  Real research done on your own is a valuble item to learn.

[Shotgun Franklin]

I have several ranches around me, I've worked on a Ranch and managed a Ranch, that enough research for ya?
While there are a few family ranches around the bottom is still profit.
Usually the Chilred are more interested in getting the money the land's worth than actually working on the land.

[Delmonico]

I have several ranches around me, I've worked on a Ranch and managed a Ranch, that enough research for ya?
While there are a few family ranches around the bottom is still profit.
Usually the Chilred are more interested in getting the money the land's worth than actually working on the land.

And yet you don't even have where you are from in your profile.  Not everyone or even the majority are as you say, so where were these ranches, what was the brand?

[Ranch 13]

 Many of these so called "corporate" ranches and farms, and merely corporations or llc's formed by the family that's been there for a hundred years trying to beat the government away from stealing the whole thing for death and inheritance taxes.
Yes profit is important, the only business that is allowed to run on and on with out a profit, is the government. The rest of us have to pay cash for our feed, land , taxes, gas, vehicles.................

[Delmonico]

You ask a question, you get good and honest answers and then you whine.  As I said, do a little research on your own.  Don't have the slightest idea who you are talking about, don't watch stupid reality shows, fact is don't bother with TV.  I will say, why don't you post a good picture of what you can do to look "Old West."

Some of us here have spent a lot of time doing research over the years, other simply ask others to do it for them.

[Delmonico]

I could respond in-kind, but I remember what grandma always said.....       Never make fun of the ------.

What ever you want, you seem to be the one with all the questions.   Haven't seen you pass on much of any imfo since you showed up.

[St. George]

Another negative posting and personal attack and I'll delete the thread.

Scouts Out!

[Stillwater]

I have seen a cattle drive, twice a year, for several years... In southern California, with all of it's population.

This happens twice a year in the early spring, and then in the late fall. The herd that is driven is pretty small by most standards, 500 head or less. I don't see much herding going on, the people herding the cattle ride along beside the cows, slumped in the saddle, with a couple riding ahead to stop cross traffic when an intersection is approached.

The cattle seem so well trained, that it seems like the cattle could make the trip by themselves.

I'm out of Columbus, Montana, born on my grandfathers old ranch in the middle thirties. I grew up on another small ranch in the Okanogan Valley of eastern Washington State. My first job, where I made a regular paycheck, was tending Rodeo stock. I was just a kid, but I thought I was a real cowboy. Thought is the operative word here.

The town I lived in, Omak, WA, has a well known rodeo, the Omak Stampede. I think the Omak Rodeo is the only place that has a suicide race, where riders race down a steep bluff, cross the Okanogan river, and ride into the arena. A Colville Indian fellow, a friend of my Uncle, won that race eleven years in a row. The rider, named Alec Dick, was a little guy. He was about 5'-3" tall, must of weighted 110 pounds, soaking wet, with a rock  in his pocket. But damn, could he ride...

Have any of you "Cowboys" ever heard of the Kelsey-Moomaw rodeo strings? They are a think of the past now, but there must be people in Washington or Oregon that remember how good K/M's rodeo stock strings were...

K/M had a bucking horse named Badger Mountain. That horse and I got along really well. We got along so good that he followed me around like a dog, when ever he could.

Take Badger Mountain to the Rodeo, put him in a chute and attach a sursingle (sp) to him, put a rider in the saddle, and that horse would explode, when the gate was opened.

K/M had another well known horse named Two Spot. Two Spot, an Appaloosa, with only two spots, equally located on either side of his tail, on his hind quarters, had been a saddle bronc, but was retired to the status of pasture ornament, until one day K/M needed a horse for one of the pickup riders too use. Two Spot, a big hose, established a reputation, as one of the best pickup horses in the Pacific Northwest area (Washington, Oregon and Idaho).

It really makes a person long to relive their past life, when you think about those old times. Looking back on it though, I have probably ridden a tractor, more than I rode horses.

Bill

[FEATHERS]

Thank you St George,I love reading the posts on western history & altho each has an opinion,the ones that really know have been gone for over 100 years.Feathers

[Doc Neeley]

This is one of my favorite websites. I posted this a couple years ago. It is a photographic record (over 2000 photos) of the late 1880's through early 1900's of cowboy life, clothes and entertainment. All of us 'chubby' cowpokes take note of how many chubby ranch hands there were. This is from the Amon Carter Museum.
The link is: http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/smith/collection.php?mcat=4&pagen=8

Enjoy.

[Skeeter Lewis]

Thanks, Doc. Those are beautiful, evocative photographs.