March, 1955 - Milwaukee Road Archive
March, 1955 - Milwaukee Road Archive
March, 1955 - Milwaukee Road Archive
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heading for trail's end, via The <strong>Milwaukee</strong> ...<br />
THE LAST of the WILD HORSES<br />
THE end gate dosed Jan. 24 on the wild<br />
horse chapter of central Montana history<br />
when wranglers near Winifred corraled<br />
and shipped the last of the cayuses to the<br />
meat-packing plants.<br />
Out in a country where "they ain't<br />
nobody what can't sit a hoss," Long Irv<br />
Smith, his son, Vernon, and Elmer<br />
4<br />
(Monk) Ward shipped about 130 head<br />
to the dog.-and-cat food houses of Oregon<br />
where they'll bring $2.50 the hundred<br />
pounds. Nineteen-year old Vernon,<br />
who kicked in about 30 of his own, estimated<br />
the three of them should split<br />
$2,500 on the deal.<br />
"We used to load every month,"<br />
young Vernon said of the horses. "Once<br />
Dad even shipped 600. But we got down<br />
to one loading every six months and this<br />
is the end of them." In his lifetime<br />
Ward estimated he had shipped 20,000<br />
horses.<br />
Although only 21 of the herd were<br />
"slick" (unbranded), the horses turned<br />
The <strong>Milwaukee</strong> <strong>Road</strong> Magazine
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