1. A Smithfield is a leggy type of collie of the sort that bullock drovers used when working cattle half a century ago. 2. Along the way you may see Chilean cowboys working cattle with dogs and fishermen repairing their nets. 3. And I spent years working cattle before I left the ranch. 4. He loved the open spaces, working cattle, the trips to New Mexico and Texas to collect cattle to ship home to fatten amid the surrounding hills. 5. He had friends in Quanah, and the countryside reminded him of the land on which he had broken horses and worked cattle as a young man. 6. I had eyed him and said he looked like a man who might have ridden a few old raw horses and worked a few cattle. 7. It left me feeling like I once did as a kid after working cattle. 8. So he still works cattle on those big ranches, often discovering something like a certain bulging muscle that he has never noticed. 9. They brought with them their whips, dogs and slaves to work the cattle. 10. Trailhands worked their cattle from the ranches of Texas to the railheads in Kansas before being paid for their work. |