Cattle Drive (Texas Country Reporter)
Third-generation cattle rancher Weldon Wilson must moves his herd of longhorns across 16 miles of land the old fashioned way. What did you think of this story? Please tell us in the comment section below and remember to sign up for our free newsletter.
May 7, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
This cattle drive reminds me of when I was a teacher, principal, and bus driver for a one room school house in the Sierra foothills in California. Each year a lady cowboy from the central valley would drive her herd of cattle to the high country for the summer. We went out to recess after the herd had passed by. One boy hit a baseball which clobbered a steer when started a stampede. The big kids helped the smaller kids to get inside the building. The cowboys herded the cattle to take them further up the hills.
A few years later National Geographic did a feature story about this lady rancher.
May 20, 2017 @ 11:42 am
What a marvelous story. What a lost art that is. Cattle with horns don’t make me too comfortable. When I was a kid on the farm a cow didn’t like that I was where I was and I rode on her head for a bit and this one didn’t have horns, just a nasty disposition. We called her Dynamite.. Wasn’t a lot of fun………….
May 21, 2017 @ 7:41 pm
My past husband and his extended family went to a ranch in Wyoming for over 30 years to take part in a cattle drive and roundup, branding etc. he loved so that when he died last month his family took his ashes and buried them under a Cairn they built on that ranch. It’s still happening for a lot of his family. Fun fun fun for them all.
April 5, 2019 @ 3:55 am
Very heart warming story of a very caring gentleman. One who clearly loves his life.
May 9, 2019 @ 10:05 am
Ireally enjoyed this, for cattle ranchers had it rough sometimes, but this is wonderful