There seems to be a slightly different philosophy about horses between cowboys and buckaroos. Cowboys value their horses and take care of them. They are the carpenter’s equivalent of a good saw and hammer – tools to be used and well taken care of. Buckaroos come from the old Spanish horsemanship school. They too value their horses as working tools – but they go a little further.
As the new Double Circle buckaroo told me yesterday, cowboys have horses to work cattle. Buckaroos work cattle to train horses. He said that if a man could make one or two GOOD horses in his lifetime, he was a success and had accomplished something valuable. Now that is a horseman’s philosophy!
there is no reason to have cattle if you don’t work them on horseback, and there’s (almost) no reason to have horses if you don’t have cattle to work with them.
Well, I still enjoy a peaceful ride in the wide open space- but I do agree that cattle and horses do go together. There is nothing better than working cattle on a good cow pony.Actually horses are the only way we could gather cattle at the Double Circle anyway– thank goodness!
Wilma