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see ole Pistol grazing on me native Indian grass. Oklahoma £tar on his mother’s side and Tex-• as Hancock on his dad’s. What a heritage for a quarter horse! This breed, famous for being the fastest horse for the first quarter mile, is a far cry from the wild musts.' gs the Oklahoma, Texas cowboys used in the past.
Let’s mount ole Pistol and see an Oklahoma ranch. The first thing a • Virginian would notice about this flat country is the lack of trees and the tall big blue stem grass. It is not unusual for grass to drag your stirrups here. This abundance of grass and lack of trees is due to an abundance of Phosphate. Cowboys like a land rich in phosphate.
We are riding only a few miles from Osage County, the home of over a million beef cattle. This high ratio of cattle per acre is tops for the west and is only exceeded nationally by certain areas in Florida.
Have you ever seen a buffalo wallow? I am looking at one now. This shallow impression in' the earth is where buffalo rolled and kicked, stirring up clouds of dust to chase flies away. The buffalo are gone, but the Indians who hunted them are very much in evidence. A part of our ranch house used to be an Indian school. The Seneca Indian tribe, located about twenty miles away, is keeping alive
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