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Cowboy equipment used in handling cattle, especially in Yavapai County

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Cowboy hat is the first thing on in the morning

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Shirt

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Levi Strauss overalls

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Levi Strauss jumper – protects from the brush

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Chaps – Spanish word “Chappareros”

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Most of the names are nomenclature and comes from Spanish

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Yavapai County cowboys influence by California cowboys of Mexico

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Boots – can tell where a man comes from by the kinds of boots he wears

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Spurs – various kinds

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Centerfire spurs – downturned shank and chap hook to keep chaps out of the spurs

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Remy spurs – go straight up and have a drop button – used by “Remies”

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Centerfire – man who uses single cinch saddle

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Takes dallies around saddle

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Remy – man who rides a double cinch saddle

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Ties rope hard and fast

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2 kinds of cowboys worked in Yavapai County

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Influence largely California and Mexico

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Early cowboys used Mexican influence

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Most were Dally Rufdy (sp?) men

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Turn around saddle when you catch something

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Centerfire – single cinch saddle

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Later on cowboys came from everywhere

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In through Southern Arizona came the “Remies”

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Double cinch saddles and tied rope

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Cowboy boots/boot jack

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Hard to get off at the end of the day

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Have to use boot jack – “forked arrangement” that you step on and put the heel in the slot and pull boots off

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Boot jacks are necessary

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Chaps have tapaderos

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Covers for stirrups

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Heavy leather covers

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2 kinds of tapaderos – monkey nose and bracamontes

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Bracamontes – Long tapaderos

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Monkey nose – Short tapaderos

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Tapaderos protect feet from the brush

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Yavapai County had lots of heavy brush

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Riding without tapaderos turns kid leather into suede

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Yavapai cowboys usually had tapaderos over stirrups

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Ropes – catch rope

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Centerfire cowboys used rawhide reata

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Reata of braided rawhide – 42 to 43 feet long

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Cowboy had to take dallies to stop something

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Rawhide reata will break with a sudden, hard jerk

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“Remies” – tied rope men – used for many  years grass rope – Seagull

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Nowadays, cowboys use nylon topes

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Yavapai cowboys of Mexican  influence used another rope thrown around horses neck and hackamore of bridle

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Macate – made of horsehair

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Mexican word – hair rope you lead your horse with

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Cowboys – Americanized word to McCarty

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Colts broken with a hackamore – bridle goes over the nose

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Snapper bit

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Branding iron

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Calves branded in the spring or fall

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Stamp iron

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Heat iron in fire and stamp on calves side or ribs

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Running iron – can be iron rod with a hook

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Can also be ordinary cinch ring

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North country -  running irons prohibited

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Running irons necessary when on the range

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Many places in Yavapai County different brands of cattle run together

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Try to brand all calves at round-up time

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Some wild calves are branded when they are caught

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Fire for brands – wood fire

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Fire fanned with hat

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Half-dozen shapes of cowboy hats

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Lately, all look like a sugar scoop

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Early cowboy hats had flat brim

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Yavapai cowboys wore them when Gail was a cowboy

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Nowadays – new hats have a sugar scoop

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Fan range fire until it is white hot

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Hot enough to brand a calf

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Horseshoes and mule shoes

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Horses have to be shoed in rough country

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Wouldn’t get very far in the rocks if not shoed

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Horseshoeing is the hardest work in the world

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Shoed 8 horses in 1 day -  4 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon

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“Man-killing” day

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Canteen – few cowboys in Yavapai County carried canteens – springs, mud holes

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Southern Arizona – canteens required

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Chew tobacco – can go all day without a drink

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Can take chew tobacco on a high run – keeps you from getting thirsty

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Bell – bell mare

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Extra horses were taken care of by horse wrangler

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Old mare – hang bell on her – horses stay with her

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Wild cattle – put bell on cow so you could find the wild bunch

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Hide in brush

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Curry comb -  left at ranch

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First thing in the morning – curry horse’s back

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Fit pad and saddle blankets

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Must not get sore back on horse

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Keep horses back clean

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Many cowboys wash horses back off every evening

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Brush in the morning

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Makes hair lay flat and blanket lays flat

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Earmarks on cattle

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Brand determines ownership

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Various kinds of earmarks

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Split

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Crop and split

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Underbit and overbit

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Crop

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Hundreds of earmarks – 1 in left ear and 1 in right ear

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Whistle and ears go up

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Fenced range – don’t need earmarks

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Mixed range cattle need earmarks

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Brand is verification of ownership

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Song: Sierry Petes – Tying the knot in the Devil’s tail

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Bob Heckle and Gail Gardner – working cattle at Bill Deering’s ranch

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Deering’s ranch – just west of Thumb Butte

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Sierra Prieta mountains

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Thumb Butte picnic grounds

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Whiskey Row

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“Devil gets cowboys that do what we have been doing.”

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1917 -  Gail joined the service for World War One

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Pilot – flier

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Going through Kansas on the Santa Fe Limited

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Broad beamed cattle – no earmarks

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Wrote the words to Tying the knot in the Devil’s tail

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“Sandy Bob” – Bob Heckle “Buster Jigs” – Gail Gardner

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Sent words to sister

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Got home and read words to sick girl in the hospital

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Billy Simon wrote the music for it

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Written in 1917

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Pirated by cowboys “who don’t know which end of cows gets up first or which end the hay goes in horses.”

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Gail sings Sierry Petes