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MUSTANGS AND MUSTANGING IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS 7
clogs were fastened around the front leg just above the hoof.
Some were "side-lined." This was done by tying one end of
a short rope around a front leg and the other end around
a hind leg. Thus handicapped, the mustangs could be driven
away with gentle horses. Whatever the means used, the wild
horses were badly bruised and otherwise injured before they
could be handled and driven away.
However, after they had been driven for two or three
days from their accustomed range, it was not so hard to
manage and control them as one might think. And usually
they recuperated from their injuries quickly. The mesteiero
now sought a buyer for his captives. Two dollars and a half
a head was a fair price, usually. Sometimes he could not
realize that much. While money was hard to get, time was
not much of an item.
Sometimes a pen was built near a watering place with one
wing reaching to the water and the other leading out so that
the mustangs might be chased into the pen readily when they
came to drink. If the mustangs had been chased, they watered
at night. Thus it was easy for the riders to conceal themselves
near by, but all of them must be on the lee side of the
mustangs. Like other wild animals, they had a keen scent and
once they "sniffed the tainted gale," they gave a loud snort,
wheeled, and were gone before reaching the position where
the riders could force them into the pen. This method could
be used only in a time of drought when the mustangs were
compelled to go to water at certain watering places, far apart.
Another method of capturing mustangs, which could not
be dignified by the term chase, was called "walking mustangs
down." This was done by a lone man on horseback who
started following the band of mustangs. Of course, at the
start, the mustangs ran away. But the man followed on, not
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964; Boatright, Mody C. & Ransom, Harry H. Mustangs and Cow Horses, book, 1940; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67653/m1/19/: accessed May 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.