Along the cattle trails, a good wrangler was as important as the cook. A horse wrangler's job was a serious one. Legendary writer J. In the border country, a band of saddle horses is still called a remuda — the Spanish term, the man in charge of them being the remudero.
A good wrangler knew every horse in a remuda of, say, 60 to head. One of them is the PO dun. Another is the Pico Blanco snip nose. Knowing the nature of the country and the horses, he would set out for a certain spread of land. If they had walked on grass coated with dew, the trail was easy to follow.
Whether it was easy or hard to follow, he was expected to bring in the strays and have the entire remuda at the noon camp a few miles up the trail for change of mounts. There were no pens on the trail to put horses in. Several cowboys made a circle of ropes held in their hands. While a horse was being broken, he had learned better than to try to run over a rope. A big remuda of cow horses would stay inside this one-strand temporary fence.
One man, usually the boss, roped out the horses, each cowboy calling out the name or description of the horse he wanted. Like the cook , the wrangler was apart from the men who drove the cattle. Home the history of the wrangler: a job for true horsemen.
The History of the Wrangler: A Job for True Horsemen A little history about remudas, remuderos and the importance of the horse wrangler. Knowledge of trail safety procedures for rider and horse, how to respond to weather, and other unplanned conditions.
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