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Cowboy link Roundup
The cattle drives stop
after the late 1800 because of several factors --
1. Land owners along the trails started to fence off
their lands with
barbed wire.
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(video)
2. The train companies expanded their tracks to the towns in
Oklahoma and Texas.
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3.
The 1885 Kansas quarantine law (link -
because of Texas cattle
fever) helped put the nail in the
coffin.
Bandana - a cloth made of silk or cotton, usually worn around the neck to
protect against winds, rain, and sunburn.
Bedroll - the cowboy's bed, made up of blankets and quilts wrapped up
in a tarp, which fastens with hooks or snaps on the sides. The bedroll also
serves as the cowboy's suitcase.
Broke - trained. A horse that has been given some education is called a
broke horse; a green-broke horse is partially trained; a well-broke horse is
well-trained.
Boom town - a town that grew up rapidly, usually a mining town
or a town where a cattle trail met a railroad line.
Branding - marking cattle or horses with a hot iron that imprints the
symbol of the owner on the animal's hide.
Bronco - a wild horse
Bronco buster - a cowboy who had special skill in taming wild
horses
Cattle drive - the movement of a herd of cattle from ranches and
grazing lands to the railroad lines for shipment to meat-packing plants
farther east.
Chaps - long leather leggings worn by cowboys over their pants for
protection against cactus and other range plants.
Chuck wagon - the cooking and supply wagon used by ranch cooks
during roundups and cattle drives.
Clove hitch - a knot used by cowboys to tie a rope or lariat to
a post.
Cutting horse - a ranch horse specially trained to single out
(or "cut") a steer or horse from a herd.
Half-Hitch - a knot often used by cowboys to tie a lariat to the
saddle horn.
Hobbles - restraints that fasten around a horse's front legs below the
ankle, to keep him from running off while the cowboy is out of the saddle.
Jerky - strips of dried meat that could be stored for long
periods.
Lariat - a braided rope used by cowboys.
Lasso - a lariat tied with a special knot so that the lariat could be
tightened when thrown over the head of a steer or horse.
Mustang - a wild horse.
Outlaw - a horse that cannot be broke or ridden.
Poke - a pouch or bag used by cowboys to carry small personal items.
Pulling Leather - holding onto the saddle horn to keep from
getting thrown when a horse is bucking.
Quirt - a weighted, short-handled whip made of braided rawhide or
leather.
Range - an open area of grassland where cattle and horses grazed.
Rawhide - the un-tanned cattle skin; a skin that has not been processed
to make leather.
Rodeo - a display of skill in bronco busting and roping that began in
the 1870s and remains popular in the West today.
Roundup - the bringing together of a ranch's cattle for branding or to
start a cattle drive.
Spurs - made up of heel band, shank, and rowel, the spur is a tool used
to persuade but not injure, the horse.
Stampede - a wild and uncontrollable run by a herd of spooked cattle.
Tenderfoot - a newcomer to the cowboy life; also called a greenhorn.
Wrangler - the person on a ranch or cattle drive who took care of the
horses.
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