The Cattleman’s Pages of History T
HE CATTLEMAN MAGAZINE IS 100 YEARS OLD. WE THOUGHT WE’D TAKE A FEW MINUTES EACH month to look back at 100 years of covers and coverage of the cattle business of the Southwest.
Our historic cover this month comes from May 1925. Excerpts from an article writ- ten by The Cattleman Editor E.B. Spiller tell the story of this image.
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Edited by E.B. Spiller A once familiar but now a rapidly disappearing type. A type familiar to
the cattle country of the West — one or more in every cow camp and in every activity pertaining to the cattle business. A terror to cattle thieves or rustlers of former days; watching over the interests of his employers with the intentness of the honest watch dog. Ready to battle for the interest of those he chose to serve and a man whose reputation for hard, desperate fi ghting helped in the care of the herds and property he had in charge. It was in the days of open ranges and large herds of cattle were held in
control by line riding. The professional cowboy knew where the fattening grasses were best; he knew where the winter protection and winter feed excelled, and he saw that the stock used each in its season and tried not to disturb either out of season. He knew the ways of the cattle thieves and he knew how to circumvent and protect his charge against invasion by them. He thought in the terms of his profession and knew what his cattle and horses intended doing before they began it. The owners of the cattle residing long distances away felt secure in
leaving the herds in the hands of these cowboys of that day, and love and loyalty to his employers and his fi delity to their interests were the out- standing traits of character of these men — carrying their lives as lightly in their line of duty as they carried their meager belongings from camp
The Cattleman May 1925
to camp. He is fast disappearing more surely and rapidly than the Indian, the buffalo, the antelope and the longhorn steer that inhabited the western plains and ranges side by side with him, and this photo was taken with the express purpose of perpetuating the memory of this type to future generations, and was taken of a man that had no peer in his profession — Harry Wade, respected by all who have known him — who served through stormy and troubled times in a new and wild country.
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