Identifier: newcoloradosanta00hayerich (find matches)
Title: New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Hayes, Augustus Allen, 1837-1892
Subjects: Colorado -- Description and travel Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Publisher: London, C. K. Paul & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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roportionately increase. There arealways, however, ranchmen willing to sell, for one reason or another, andno one need despair of obtaining a good location at a fair rate, with theimprovements ready made. Then he can buy his stock, mainly, if he bewise, on the spot and in the neighborhood; for, with the great improve-ment now taking jilace in breeds, it is no longer desirable to buy largelyin Texas. Then come his cow-boys, or herders ; not Mexicans, as in oldtimes, but generally stalwart Americans, quick of hand and deliberate ofspeech. They are provided with swift and sure-footed horses, generally,in these days, of the broncho type—a mixture of the American horse andthe mustang. It may now faii-ly be asked, where else in the world, and in what otherknown way, can a man sit down and see his possessions increase before his THE CATTLE RANCHES. 37 eyes with so little exertion involvedon his part? With the dawn tlucattle are all grazing. Thin and gra ^enough the grass looks to the ine\-
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trinient, ^Mth therichest greensward of apparently more fertileregions, and re-members that it grows afreshtwice a year. Then, withthe utmost regularity, andsome time before noon, thewhole herd — the splendid bulls, the plump steers, the red, and white, and roan, and mottled cows-take their accustomed trail, and seek the water with unerrmg certamty.Then back to the grazing again, and feed until • ROUND UP. 38 KEW COLOKADO AND THE SANTA FE TliAlL. * The embers of tlic sunsets firesAlong tlic clouds burn down, and ni^lit brings tlieni repose. As in mure i)riniitive days tlic diHerent lierds ranged intermingledover the public d(»niain, so do they now stray from ranch to ranch, and atcertain seasons of the year they must he collected and scjiarated. Theyare distinguished by ear-nuirks, and more esi)ecially by brands, said brandsbeing conclusive and universally accepted evidence of ownership. InJune and July, and in September and October, rounding up, or thegrand collection and separa

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