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tenances for cooking it. Each outfit was under its own 

 foreman until in the saddle for the day's work, when 

 they were then under the head foreman. 



It seems likely that the term, "wrangler," comes 

 from caverango — the Spanish for the man who had 

 the care of the saddle horses. East of the Columbia 

 River the term "wrango" or "rango" was used. From 

 "cavo" the term "cavy" was undoubtedly derived, 

 while "wrango" was undoubtedly derived from 

 "rango," from which in turn the anglicized ultimate 

 of er was added with an / and we have the range term 

 of "wrangler." Also it is not illogical to assume that 

 "rancho," "range," "rancher," "ranger" are all deriva- 

 tives of the same root, origin. 



When the rounding-up outfits are on the move, a 

 temporary rope corral is provided. A rope corral is 

 sometimes made of a rope simply laid off the ground 

 on some sagebrush, being safer it is said than some 

 fence corrals in keeping the horses in. The horses are 

 broken to a rope corral by being allowed to try to es- 

 cape from a fence corral over a piece of rope stretched 

 at a certain height across the open gateway. They 

 rarely jump clear of a rope, which gives them some 

 nasty spills and they learn their lesson. 



Horses are trained for special work — hence a good 

 "ropin' hoss" might not be a good "cut hoss," used for 

 cutting out cattle from the peratha, the bunch of cattle 

 which are being "cut into" for the purpose of being 

 "cut out." 



The Round-Up has the hardest buckers to be found 

 anywhere and are sought everywhere from New Mex- 

 ico to Canada; for real top-notchers, like Long Tom, 

 for instance, fabulous prices are paid. The bucker U 

 Tell 'Em was originally bought by his owner for forty 



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