The mountains . er. Accidents are common in the hills. The repair-kitis normally rather comprehensive. Buy a number ofextra latigos, or cinch-straps. Include many copperrivets of all sizes — they are the best quick-repairknown for almost everything, from putting togethera smashed pack-saddle to cobbling a worn-out horseshoeing outfit should be complete withparing-knife, rasp, nail-set, clippers, hammer, nails,and shoes. The latter will be the malleable soft iron,low-calked Goodenough, which can be fitted a dozen front shoes and a dozen and a halfhind shoes. The latter w
The mountains . er. Accidents are common in the hills. The repair-kitis normally rather comprehensive. Buy a number ofextra latigos, or cinch-straps. Include many copperrivets of all sizes — they are the best quick-repairknown for almost everything, from putting togethera smashed pack-saddle to cobbling a worn-out horseshoeing outfit should be complete withparing-knife, rasp, nail-set, clippers, hammer, nails,and shoes. The latter will be the malleable soft iron,low-calked Goodenough, which can be fitted a dozen front shoes and a dozen and a halfhind shoes. The latter wear out faster on the box or so of hob-nails for your own boots, a waxedend and awl, a whetstone, a file, and a piece of buck-skin for strings and patches complete the list. Thus equipped, with your grub supply, your cook-ing-utensils, your personal effects, your rifle and yourfishing-tackle, you should be able to go anywherethat man and horses can go, entirely self-reliant,independent of the towns. 20. Your grub supply ON HORSES Ill ON HORSES I REALLY believe that you will find more va-riation of individual and interesting characterin a given number of Western horses than in anequal number of the average men one meets on thestreet. Their whole education, from the time theyrun loose on the range until the time when, branded,corralled, broken, and saddled, they pick their wayunder guidance over a bad piece of trail, tends todevelop their self-reliance. They learn to think forthemselves. To begin with two misconceptions, merely by wayof clearing the ground: the Western horse is gen-erally designated as a bronco. The term is consid-ered synonymous of horse or pony. This is not horse is bronco when he is ugly or mean orvicious or unbroken. So is a cow bronco in thesame condition, or a mule, or a burro. Again, fromcertain Western illustrators and from a few samples,our notion of the cow-pony has become that of a lean,rangy, wiry, thin-necked, scrawny beast. Such maybe
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