. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. A TYPICAL RANGE HORSES PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Raising liorses on the western plains is, if possible,an even more interesting industry than that of rais-ing cattle. The first range horse was the bronco, as the Mexi-cans call their little wild horses. The name has be-come so indissolubly attached, in the American mind,with a fractious untamed horse from the West, thatbronco is now to most people merely another name foran equine incorrigible, just a« arab is now a synonymfor a little
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. A TYPICAL RANGE HORSES PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Raising liorses on the western plains is, if possible,an even more interesting industry than that of rais-ing cattle. The first range horse was the bronco, as the Mexi-cans call their little wild horses. The name has be-come so indissolubly attached, in the American mind,with a fractious untamed horse from the West, thatbronco is now to most people merely another name foran equine incorrigible, just a« arab is now a synonymfor a little vagrant of the streets. A few years ago these little Mexican and Texan ponies,or broncos, could be bad for a mere sorg, and con-sequently they were purchased by the thousands and letloose to roam the western ranges. The ranchmen paidno attention to quality in breeding. The one consid-eration which occupied their minds was that of quan-tity; if the ponies multiplied rapidly they were satis-fied. As a result there were shipped to market, lotsof wretched, inbred little brutes called horses, animals 206 THE UNION STOC
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