COWBOY DAYS
COWBOY DAYS COWBOY DAYS My name is Jeannie Grigsby. I want to tell you about my great-great-great-great-uncle, Carl Grigsby. He was born more than 150 years ago, and he was a cowboy. I've been hearing family stories about Uncle Carl since I was born. When Carl Grigsby was just sixteen, he went to work for the Lazy L Ranch in Texas. Mr. Tom Lambert, the ranch owner, raised a type of cattle called Texas longhorns. Carl liked the longhorns. He said they were the best cattle around. They'd eat
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COWBOY DAYS
COWBOY DAYS
My name is Jeannie Grigsby. I want to tell you about my great-great-great-great-uncle, Carl Grigsby.He was born more than 150 years ago, and he was a cowboy.
I've been hearing family stories about Uncle Carl since I was born.
When Carl Grigsby was just sixteen, he went to work for the Lazy L Ranch in Texas.Mr. Tom Lambert, the ranch owner, raised a type of cattle called Texas longhorns.
Carl liked the longhorns. He said they were the best cattle around.They'd eat almost anything that grew.
The flat land all around the ranches was called the range.The range was wide open land. All the ranchers grazed their cattle on the range.
Each rancher put his cowboys in charge of his cattle.The cowboys had to keep their herd together on the range.
Carl and the other cowboys from the Lazy L rode out each morning.They'd watch over the longhorns all day and keep them from mixing with other cattle from a different ranch.
The most important job for cowboys was the trail drive.The trail drive was when a herd of cattle was taken to the closest railroad station.From there, the cattle went east to the market.It sounds like easy work, doesn't it? But it wasn't!
There could be as many as three thousand longhorns on the drive.That's a lot of cattle to watch over!A trail drive was not just a short little trip.At that time the nearest railroad to the Lazy L was in Dodge City, Kansas.
It could take three months to drive the cattle up the trail to Dodge City.
Carl and the rest of the cowboys had to keep the cattle together, headed in the right direction.Some cowboys would lead the way.Others would ride beside and behind the herd.
The cattle raised a lot of dust as they moved along.Carl wore a bandanna to try to keep some of the dust away from his face.But dust was always getting into his eyes.
If you asked Carl, "What's the worst thing that can happen on a cattle drive?"he would probably say, "STAMPEDE!"
A loud sound could sometimes scare the cattle.A clap of thunder would startle them.All of a sudden, they would gallop off in the wrong direction.
The cowboys would have to gallop out and get ahead of the stampede.They could sometimes see the cattle charging right at them!
