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Night herding |
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| Cowhands would serve a shift of night herding,
which meant taking shifts sitting in the saddle throughout the night and
keeping an eye on the herd. Sometimes the cowboys would sing “hymns”
or cowboy lullabies to the easily rattled cattle. Because of this particular
job many cowhands were short of sleep on the trail. Click here to view more night herding images |  Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) "Waking a night rider". This duty of the early day cowpuncher, like many others, went out of practice with the coming of the barbed wire and the closing of the free range. Before then, each man took his turn at holding the herd. [The "sleeping" cowboy is George Patullo.] Three Block Range, New Mexico., 1908–1909 Gelatin dry plate negative Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas LC.S6.186 |
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