Horse Critters

BALLY: a bald-face horse or cow.

BAYO COYOTE: a dun colored horse with a black stripe down his back.

BELL MARES: generally old mares (wearing a bell), used as leaders in pack trains or put in a remuda to locate where horses are grazing at night.

BROOM-TAILS: a class of range stock (horses or mares) that are not worth a thin dime.

BRONCO: an animal that has never been broken to saddle or harness use. Also spelled broncho, bronk, and bronc.

BUCKSKIN: a yellow colored horse.

(CABALLADA): band of trained or broke horses

(CABALLO): broke horse

CAYUSE: a range-bred horse.

COW HORSE: a horse that trained to roping, cutting, working out a cow-herd.

COW SENSE: a horse that has been broken to the use of roping, cutting and general cow work.

CREASING: shooting a horse through the cartilage of the neck, which completely stuns the animal though causing no serious injury - Creasing is an easy method of catching wild horses.

CRITTER: often in speaking of cows or horses a cowman calls them a "Critter"

CROWBAITS: very poor horses, decrepit animals.

CUTTING HORSE: certain cow-horses used at a round-up in cutting out cattle for ownership and brand.

(EL DOMADOR): colt in the hackamore

FUZZ-TAILS: Wild range horses.

GELDING: it is a range custom to let male colt run at large until he becomes a 2-year old, he is then castrated and becomes a gelding.

GRULLA: a mouse colored horse, a mousy-dun.

JENNETTES: offsprings from a Jack burro, and a small mare.

LOCOED: horses and cattle become addicted to the eating of Loco weed, thereby causing the victim to become thin; with injury to eyesight, muscular control and brain; causes an abnormal growth of hair on the mane and tail of horses - on cattle an extra increase of hair on flanks.

MUSTANG: a wild range horse.

OUTLAW BRONCHO: a bucking horse whose spirit is unconquerable.

PALOMINO: a golden colored horse with a creme colored mane and tail.

PIEBALD: a streak of white on a horse's forehead extending to the nostril like the letter T inverted.

PINTO: a paint or spotted pony.

(REMUDA): all saddle horses on a roundup are thrown together and are called a 'remuda'. The remuda is in charge of a cowboy whose duty is to herd and bunch them when the cowboys want a fresh mount. Sometimes called a 'caviada' or 'Cavva-yard'.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN CANARY: a burro, sometimes called a Colorado Mocking bird.

ROUGH STRING: saddle horses that buck every time they are saddled, some never become real gentle.

SPOOKY-BRONC: a horse that is always shying.

STRAY: an animal found strayed away from owner or from the range where it belongs.

SUN FISHER: when a bronk bucks and twists his body into a cresent, and throws head alternately to right and left...looks as though he is trying to sun both side of his body.

SUNDAY HOSS: a good looking horse with a good gait... Used to go to town or to go 'gallin'.

SWAPPING ENDS: when a bronk is bucking and goes up facing one direction but lands facing the opposite direction.

TOP HORSE: every cowboy has his pick of the horses in his string.. .this horse is only used as a cutting or roping horse.

WET PONIES: stolen ponies which have been smuggled across the Rio Grandee from Old Mexico.

WHEELERS: first team attached to a freight wagon.