No horses this time. I'm going to talk about the hardships on the trail.

There would be 2,500 to 3,000 head of cattle and they'd go all day, eight to 10 miles a day. There'd be about eight or nine cowboys on the trail and a lot of them didn't make the whole trip. The trip was so long, some got lonesome and others got sick from malnourishment.

We stay pretty close to home now. No more shooting acts, or Wild West shows up north like we used to. I'm more of a historian now.

This is similar to the ones made in 1865, but the real ones were about six-foot longer, a foot higher and a foot wider. I tried to fix this up as original as they made it back then. I could take this on the trail. It's pretty solid.

...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day’s work for twenty years, seven days a week, and retire sound.” He snorted. “The drive now is for pretty lawn ornaments. The Arabian horses were originally bred as weapons of war, and now they are artwork.

You need to accept responsibility to prepare ahead of time. Horses, they are large creatures, but very delicate creatures and people don't realize what a devastating role stress can have on a horse.