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Identifier: handbookofwyomi00stra (find matches)
Title: The hand-book of Wyoming and guide to the Black Hills and Big Horn regions
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Strahorn, Robert E. (Robert Edmund), 1852-1944
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Publisher: Cheyenne, (Chicago, Knight & Leonard, printers)
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than the Texan steer now costs. It is a mere matter ofchoice upon the part of the breeder whether he continues raisingthe scrawny Texan, year after year, and sells him at $28, or byintroducing better blood into his herds soon produces a gradewhich brings him $45. Two per cent, is considered a liberal estimate of losses from allcauses in this northwestern region, although it would be too lowon the plains of Kansas, or even portions of Colorado, for thereason that the humidity of the atmosphere during storms, andthe almost inevitable partial melting of snows immediately aftertheir fall in those sections are most fatal to weakened animals.While snows in those regions are moist and soon badly encrusted,our nutritious grasses are at once laid bare for grazing by thealmost unceasing winds which sweep the light dry snows fromthe broad level plateaux, and pile them in narrow gulches. Early in the summer of each year the great round-upsoccur. All herders, and frequently owners of stock, gather
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STOCK-RAISING AND DAIRYING. 35 together in certain localities, and, with the most experienced andskillful stockmen for leaders, inaugurate a short season of theherdsmens wildest revelry. Mounted upon their best ponies, theherders swiftly scatter out across the range, gathering in everyanimal, and finally concentrating the property of perhaps a dozenprominent stock growers in one immense, excited herd. Passingnear the ranches of respective owners, the animals are halted ina convenient location, and part of the cow-boys hold the masswhile others ride through it, single out the brand, or animal,belonging to the adjacent range or ranch, and separate it fromthe main body of cattle until none of that description are to befound. Moving along to the next mans range, the scene isrepeated, and so continued until the cattle are divided. Thenyoung stock is branded, marketable stock sometimes disposed of,and the cattle are again allowed their freedom. Five or tenthousand head are thus frequently g

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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