Table of Contents

• List of Plates
  • Chuck Wagon on the Move
  • Pitching Camp
  • Sour Dough for Dinner
  • "Come and Git It!"
  • Chuck
  • Two Range Outfits Camp Together
  • Cleaning Up
  • The Day Herder Comes in to Eat
  • Long Shadows and Early Supper
  • Picking a Side of Barbecued Ribs
  • Breakfast at 4 A.M. on the JA
  • Shoe Bars Catching Horses
  • A Border Boss Telling Off His Riders
  • The Drive
  • On the Roundup Ground
  • Day Herd on the Spurs
  • Picking His Matador Cow
  • Cutting Her Out
  • Working the Roundup
  • Turning on a Dime
  • Holding an LS Herd
  • Heeling
  • The Calf-Roper
  • Dragging Him to the Fire
  • Flanking a Big One
  • Hot Iron and Sharp Knife
  • Coordination with Cows
  • Anxiety of Mother Cows
  • Strung Out
  • Ga'nt Horse in a Big Country
  • Rolling His Own on Day Herd
  • Counting Them Out
  • Tallying for the Trail
  • Herd Formation Matadors on the Trail
  • In the Dust of the Drags
  • Then Barbed Wire Played Hell with Texas
  • Saddle Horses
  • LS Hand Staking His Night Horse
  • Shoe Bar Wrangler Rides a Mule
  • Day-herding the Remuda
  • Little Joe the Wrangler
  • Smearing His Loop on a Wild One
  • Matador Remuda Goes Back to Grass
  • Tying Up a Foot to Saddle a Bronc
  • A-settin' in His Tree
  • Sunnin' His Sides
  • A-rarin' to Go
  • A-leavin' Cheyenne
  • Coming Back down the Cattle Trail
  • Packing Their Bed
  • Leaving for the Work
  • Dropping off the Cap Rock
  • Clear-footed Horses for Rough Country
  • Coming into Camp
  • Shootin' Craps
  • Clog Dance in a Cow Camp
  • Mumble-Peg
  • Hunting Season at Hand
  • Hitching Posts at Old Tascosa
  • Settling the Dust
  • Coming into Town Catching a Matador Outlaw
  • Hobbling an Outlaw Steer
  • Picking Up His Heels
  • Turning an Outlaw Loose
  • Bringing the Herd to the Wild One
  • Turning Him into the Gentle Bunch
  • Fighting Stock
  • Taking Care of Cows
  • Range Branding
  • Odd Jobs in Camp
  • A Pet Horse Gets His Biscuit
  • A Range Manager's Rig
  • Matador Outfit in the Eighties
  • Breeds Change but the Range Stays
  • The Symbol of Texas
  • The Nester at the Water Hole
  • Sun and Shade
  • Still in the Sun
• Erwin E. Smith: A Biographical Introduction
• Plates