TIPS TO THE TENDERFOOT 



BREAKING — conquering and taming and training a horse by force 



and fight. 

 BOYS — cowboys or hands on a rauch. 

 BRONCHO BUSTER — a cowboy who rides and breaks wild or 



unbroken horses. 

 BUCKAROO — or a broncho-buster — a cowboy who can ride and 

 then some. Applied generally to the riders who take part in 

 the Round-Up. 

 BUCKER— see "horses." 

 BUCKING — gyrations of a horse to unseat a rider. 



Bucking Straight Away — bucking that consists of long jumps 

 straight ahead without twisting, whirling or rearing. Usually 

 not difficult for a buckaroo to ride. 

 Sunfishing — a movement which some bucking horses have, con- 

 sisting particularly of a posterior twist, alternately left and right, 

 as the animal bucks, so that the horse's body, when it rises in 

 the air is in the form of an arc. A sunfisher is generally a very 

 difficult animal to ride. 

 High Roller or High Poler — a horse that leaps high into the air 



when bucking. 

 BUCKING-HORSE RIDING OR ROUGH-RIDING— riding un- 

 tamed horses that buck. 

 Riding Slick — consists in riding with the usual cowboy equip- 

 ment, i.e., saddle, chaps, and spurs and without aid of hobbled 

 stirrups, locked spurs or bucking rolls. 

 Slick Heels — riding without spurs. 



Locked Spurs — spurs in which rowels have been fastened so they 



will not move. When these spurs are held firmly in the cinch 



it is impossible for a horse to unseat its rider. They are also 



barred. 



Throwing the Steel — synonymous with raking and scratching. 



Using the spurs. 

 Scratching — the act of a buckaroo while riding a bucking horse in 

 using his spurs to make the animal buck its hardest. In 

 scratching, the buckaroo must necessarily allow the legs to be 

 free and thus take more chances. If a broncho-buster scratches 

 a bad horse, he is generally making a good ride. 

 Raking — synonymous with scratching. Generally applies when 

 rider gives his legs a free sweep, rolling the rowels of his spurs 

 along the horse's side from shoulder to rump. Sometimes 

 called scratching fore and aft. One of the highest accomplish- 

 ments coveted by the broncho-buster. 

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