Fall Work & A Purple Wild Rag For A New Cowboy

The crisp mornings of October brings us to fall cattle work on our program partner ranches in Santa Fe County. Gathering, sorting, vaccinating and branding remnants prior to weaning and shipping made the many early mornings for our Cowboy UP! staff and veterans worthwhile.We were also pleased to present a Cowboy UP! graduate with a purple wild rag symbolizing his completion of many months of hard work culminating with his going out with us to do the fall cattle gather and working. The purple wildrag is both practical as a piece of working gear that keeps you warm while horseback on those frosty mornings and symbolic as it represents our partnership with not only the Military Order of the Purple Heart but with the fraternity of cowboys everywhere.

Photo by:Connie Jo Mitchell

Photo by:Connie Jo Mitchell

Photo by:Connie Jo Mitchell

Photo by:Connie Jo Mitchell

Photo by:Connie Jo Mitchell