Made it down to the River and back.We caught 50 head and 49 made it to San Angelo to the packer.Not a brand or earmark to be seen.The cattle were fat as town dogs and wild as deer.
We caught about 30 of 'em wholesale[the helicopter ran them into a well hidden pen we built the first day].We got from 5 to 8 at a time that way over a three day period.
The rest were taken retail fashion[driving onto greasewood flats where the cowboys could rope and tie them}.These were mostly bulls.
A lot of my pictures didn't turn out for some reason , but maybe I have enough to give y'all an idea of how it all works.
The helicopter eases them out of the draws onto a flat where the cowboys are hidden downwind:
The cowboys ride onto 'em and rope 'em.They head and heel if there are enough cowboys to go around,if not,they rope and trip them.
Either way, you wind up with this:
then he goes on here:
To wind up here:
More later.