REAL Cowboys

[deserteagle71]

Nevada is cowboy country. Many ranches around me here in northern Nevada so yes, I know a few.

Cowboys pushing cows to summer pasture in the mountains, around my fenceline:

Pushing a herd up one of our canyons...note the long thick braid on that rearmost "cowboy"....

Sometimes it becomes necessary to push the cows on the highway and you just have to work your way slowly through the herd...

 

[cqaigy2]

I could smell the sage brush from one of your pictures.

 

[MoKelly]

Nevada is cowboy country. Many ranches around me here in northern Nevada so yes, I know a few.

Cowboys pushing cows to summer pasture in the mountains, around my fenceline:
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Pushing a herd up one of our canyons...note the long thick braid on that rearmost "cowboy"....
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Sometimes it becomes necessary to push the cows on the highway and you just have to work your way slowly through the herd...
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Amazing pictures.

Don’t exactly know why, but in looking at all that wide open space, I thought the telephone pole was weird.

MoKelly

 

[LouNY]

Nice pictures Deserteagle,
around here when we move cows down the road it's usually for short distances 1/4 - 1/2 mile,
we stop traffic at both ends so they can't drive in among them to many complete idiots that would
go to fast and lean on their horns spooking them right through the fences.One of our main crossings is on to the road
for about 200 ft then back into a pasture.
Once in awhile you get a real entitled jerk that thinks he doesn't need to stop and can just drive through and around,
the person standing in the road.

 

[deserteagle71]

Nice pictures Deserteagle,
around here when we move cows down the road it's usually for short distances 1/4 - 1/2 mile,
we stop traffic at both ends so they can't drive in among them to many complete idiots that would
go to fast and lean on their horns spooking them right through the fences.One of our main crossings is on to the road
for about 200 ft then back into a pasture.
Once in awhile you get a real entitled jerk that thinks he doesn't need to stop and can just drive through and around,
the person standing in the road.

I believe that! I've been driving through Utah on US Highway 50 and had to wait for quite a while...the Utah Highway Patrol was escorting a herd for about 5 miles to another pasture. Patrol vehicles in front and in back with lights flashing to keep idiots from doing just what you are talking about.

 

[deserteagle71]

"Cowgirl" country..............

 

[grsthegreat]

we used to move cattle down the road in Montana. cops wouldnt help there. we had to control traffic ourselves.

and even in the 1980's there were alot of aholes that did not want to stop and drove around the people stopping traffic. probably had to change shorts when they came around the corner to see 300 head of cattle filling road. big ass bulls also.

 

[deserteagle71]

we used to move cattle down the road in Montana. cops wouldnt help there. we had to control traffic ourselves.

and even in the 1980's there were alot of aholes that did not want to stop and drove around the people stopping traffic. probably had to change shorts when they came around the corner to see 300 head of cattle filling road. big ass bulls also.

You needed a few with horns like this one as an intimidation factor..........

 

[LouNY]

Or a grumpy ol sob with a cane, that will turn and step right at them with the cane half raised and the other hand held up in a stop signal,
and a willingness to whomp them .

 

[Wagtail]

Here in Aus they're not referred to as "Cowboy/girl". (Well of course not, it's Australia. We've got different names for everything! ) Stockman, Jackaroo/Jillaroo and drover would be the three most common. Here in Tassie there's a 'Tasmanian Mountain Cattleman's Association' that hold annual competitions. (Victoria has an Association too)

My friends in Pyengana run beef cattle and sheep. They routinely muster using horses; it puts less stress on the stock. Occasionally they will have to shift the herd along the highway (100kph zone).