Passing down ranch traditions in Oregon’s high desert | Oregon Field Guide

Tradition means everything to this Burns, Oregon family.
And springtime is the season to round up cattle and pass on skills to the next generation of ranchers.
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[@rickmeigs5404]

I spent high school and college summers (1967, 1968, 1972) as a ranch hand out in that country on the G. I. Ranch. Hard work for $75 a month plus room and board, but I loved it. Think about it and the people I worked with often.

[@amandawilcox9638]

Beautiful country, hardy people. If James decides to ranch, I can see he'll work hard to get there! Thanks, OPB.

[@rickgriffin3567]

Loved it, great video.

[@mrstringtwister4397]

Good folks doing a good job. Nice seeing the kiddos involved!! Hopefully that kid from town has the grit to stick it out and learn the skills.

[@RayNomadic]

In about 5 years i will have some land payed off. Im hoping to breed some mini/dwarf horses. They cost just as much as a full size horse but eat way less. If a person has the right barn a person can raise anything.

[@dennisg4053]

The kid - " The horse pushes them over, you push the cows to wherever you want to" - Pretty much sums up the Whole Situation !

[@archiehendricks6093]

By time I was 7 years old was driving willy jeep haul aluminum pipe, webster and john Deere tractors. I never was on a horse till 19 when I walk into table top land and seen a horse, I am going to ride him, he “the horse” geaded for tge cliff, abruply dug front hooves in, to a fast and furious stop, flying cartwheel, landing on my back. I had been observing riders and lots of horses, work on a dairy almost three years, knock out three times, foreman had a horse and australian dog. He did not even need to be on horse, Those animals work together in unison By his command. Can some one seem to be a natural. Put him on a horse, swim or drown. By time i was 9 put tractor over bank into creek, brakes stop working, i bailed. I have seen some with some kind of dis, But were bit of geniuses. Put him on a horse. 🐎

[@leilawitherspoon503]

I'm from Oregon 😊😇

[@hairbrushpic]

you're from africa.

[@jcsl78]

Should have let James ride...that is how one learns.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

The buckaroo tradition/culture derived from the Basque people in part is NOT the vacquero culture/tradition, they are different. I grew up on a Southern Oregon ranch in that culture, NOT the same.

[@Nortekman]

It derives from Mexican Cowboy and cattle herding traditions, not Basque or Andalusian. The Basques cowboys of northern Spain do their job on foot and use garrochas, just like the Andalusians. Rodeos derived from the fact that back in the early days of cattle ranching in Mexico, there were no fences and the cattle had multiplied too much, to the point that by the 1570’s there were men, that on average, had 150,000 cows. Diego the Ibarra, for example, had a cattle ranch in Zacatecas in 1578, that had 176,000 heads of cattle, and just in that year he branded 42,000 calves. Compare that to Andalusia or Castile in the 1400’s and 1500’s when, on average, a cattleman had 200 head of cattle. It was a completely different game. All the roping used by the buckaroos comes from the Mexican charros, who invented those fancy roping shot for pure showmanship while roping Spanish fighting bulls in Mexican bull fights

[@Nortekman]

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[@vaquero7072]

California had its own ranching culture that started with the mission system that came from Mexico and brought some of the traditions as well but california was unique and created it’s own culture which later moved north to Oregon Part of Idaho and east to nevada . Ewing young drove a heard of cattle from mission San Jose to the Willamette valley in Oregon in the early 1800’s bring vaqueros with him some stayed and some went back but they brought with them their ways and it spread from there. The basques came to Oregon later and most but not all were sheep herders that became cattle ranchers and adopted vaquero traditions and ways of handling stock.

[@user-xn7uu9jt9q]

too bad, the Hoyts ran into troubles, a lot was lost in the Industry, not just around Burns.

[@jamesduda6017]

Disgusting how the people who make their living and homes in the most unnatural and over developed part of the state sling mud at hard working people who barely scratch out a living. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[@benh1425]

Amen

[@captainawesome4983]

Say it louder my friend so the dumb dumbs from Portland to Eugene can hear ya.. Best regards from Pilot Rock Oregon ✌🏼😎.

[@matthewwelsh294]

@@captainawesome4983 You think people who work at Nike or Intel are dumb dumbs 😂 😂

[@bearbones4347]

I'll never go back there the cops should be ashamed

[@rockthevote398]

Making the Oregon farmers and ranchers look good since the water wars are going to be bad this year? So, Salmon and treaties be damned OPB?

[@jamesduda6017]

So ranchers shouldn't get any water?

[@rockthevote398]

@@jamesduda6017 Ranchers shouldn't get all the positive media coverage leaving the folks that are speaking out for the tribal and salmon concerns to look as it they are somehow being unreasonable. Lat time this got bad and the gov stepped in the salmon nearly went extinct from lack of the necessary amount of water they require.

[@jamesduda6017]

@@rockthevote398 so they shouldn't get any water? Can you answer the question?

[@fredthegamerschrarder7716]

@@jamesduda6017 They should get water, but it should be managed better. The problem is there’s not enough water in some areas. Its like the water issue in California. Their aquifers dried up and then desert cities are pumping water out into the middle of nowhere which is dumb. Then they got pot farms and wine drying up rivers that naturally flow all year long. It’s the same issue with loggers and commercial fishermen. There use to be a lot more loggers and commercial fishermen. If you told them that they should scale down their production they’d call you a tree hugger, but guess what it Bit them in the butt.They exploited the resources and eventually they got a bunch of restrictions placed on them and now there’s way less people working in those industries. There isn’t the same number of the salmon cannery’s and mills in Oregon now. It’s unfortunate but some people have to lose if we want to have a sustainable future. Many industries need to be scaled down and further regulated. People complained about the rules we have in place today that most people now can agree are Necessary. Back in the day people would think your crazy if you said you needed to leave a buffer of trees near a river/creek or that you can’t use so much water that it dries up a river. There’s always going to be two or more sides fighting about who’s right and what should he done 🤷‍♂️.

[@jamesduda6017]

@@fredthegamerschrarder7716 I'd be willing to bet you're not one of the "people who have to lose". It's always abstract until it's your livelihood thats affected, or worse your whole way of life.

[@FeelItRising]

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