. Industries of to-day. ese times, or when chancetravelers pass by their place. A primitive andgenuine hospitality prevails on most ranches; alltravelers feel free to stop at them, and by nomeans the least of the fatigues of the ranchmanslife is preparing meals at any time for as manyas happen to come. These are some of the drawbacks of ranch the other hand, there are advantages by nomeans to be scorned: open air, year in and yearout; freedom from all conventional and trouble-some customs; independence^ and the indefinableexhilaration which almost all men find in a wildand untrammeled
. Industries of to-day. ese times, or when chancetravelers pass by their place. A primitive andgenuine hospitality prevails on most ranches; alltravelers feel free to stop at them, and by nomeans the least of the fatigues of the ranchmanslife is preparing meals at any time for as manyas happen to come. These are some of the drawbacks of ranch the other hand, there are advantages by nomeans to be scorned: open air, year in and yearout; freedom from all conventional and trouble-some customs; independence^ and the indefinableexhilaration which almost all men find in a wildand untrammeled life. [i6] Ranch Life The cattlemen for a great part of the year haveHttle to do except to keep their buildings inorder and attend to the few animals they keepwith them. When the cattle are to be gatheredtogether, branded and counted, or driven fromone range to another, then the cattleman rides,day after day, as madly as a Bedouin in thedesert. There is probably no better riding than can beseen at the sum-mer round-ups,. where vast herds of cattlehave been gradually drivenin from their ranges andcollected in a dense mass in some open placewhere the owners may pick out their respectivecattle. Any cow or steer found unbranded thenmay be taken possession of by any one. Suchcattle are called mavericks, and there are moreof them than would be supposed; they mightbe called Ishmaelites among cattle. 1^7] Industries of To-Day As the ranchman prospers, he adds buildingafter building to his ranch. You may read thehistory of many ranches in the successive stagesof buildings, from the roughest of log cabins,which was at first the dwelling and is now merelyan outhouse for tools, implements, etc., up to thetwo-story wooden house, possibly clapboarded,which was at first the dream and is now thehome in which the ranchmans wife takes pride,and in which you will find one or more carpetedrooms, a rocking-chair or two, and a newspaperor magazine. , I know one ranch, a sheep ranch, in whichthe reco
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