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Updated: September 19, 2025
The despatch then went on to tell of the skill of the victorious riata man, and mentioned among other wonderful feats, his lassoing an antelope running at high speed 100 feet away. To make the test more extraordinary, the correspondent wrote that he would pick out one of the animal's feet and get the noose around that alone.
Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata, Jovita bounded forward, and in another moment they swept into Tuttleville and drew up before the wooden piazza of "The Hotel of All Nations." What transpired that night at Tuttleville is not strictly a part of this record.
An ancient straw stack stood in the rear of the barn and in the shadow of this he halted, removed the riata from the pommel, dragged the body close to the stack, and with a pitchfork he hastily covered it with old, weather-beaten straw.
But Teresita was in one of her perverse moods and the mockery was not all in her voice; her eyes were maddeningly full of it as she looked from him to the stretched riata. "The señor is wise to tell the twists in his riata as I tell my beads a prayer for each," she cooed.
Every vaquero that pretends to take care of his apparatus will bury his riata and stretch it every six or eight months. "A hair rope does not make a good riata. It is useful to stretch around camp at night to keep snakes away. For some reason snakes will not cross a hair rope. "Now, as to throwing it: "The riata, say, is hanging from the horn of the saddle not tied, but ready for use.
It was of black, hand-carved leather, with sterling-silver trimmings and long tapaderas a saddle to thrill every drop of the Castilian blood that flowed in the veins of its owner. The bridle was of finely plaited rawhide, with fancy sliding knots, a silver Spanish bit, and single reins of silver-link chain and plaited rawhide. At the pommel hung coiled a well-worn rawhide riata.
If you are wielding a riata you know that each of your coils is almost two feet or two and one half feet long. So if you want to lasso something twenty feet away you let go ten coils. "As to letting go, you simply open your hand at the correct time and the rope slips off. "But even after you have roped your steer your work is not over.
Estrella still lay with her eyes closed. Brent Palmer looked up keenly. The bronco-buster saw the green hide. A puzzled expression crept across his face. Roughly Johnson loosed his enemy from the wheel and dragged him to the woman. He passed the free end of the riata about them both, tying them close together. The girl continued to moan, out of her wits with terror.
A vigorous, scrambling leap placed him beside Little Billy on the top of the fence above the watering trough. "Good thing I reserved a seat in your grandstand for myself, wasn't it, pardner?" he smiled down at the boy by his side. Then Bob's riata fell true, and as the powerful horse plunged and fought that strangling noose Phil came leisurely down from the fence.
The woman's hands were tied at the wrist to the horse-hair reins of her mule, while a riata, passed around her waist and under the mule's girth, was held by one of the men, who were both armed with rifles and revolvers. Their frightened horses curveted, and it was with difficulty they could be made to advance. "Ho! stranger, what are you shooting at?" The woman laughed and shrugged her shoulders.
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