Early May

Few men have looked into the lantern light of the cook tent well before dawn and experienced the taste of coffee hot off the wood-fired stove from the tin can of the cook wagon, while sharing the conversation of the cowboys gathered about waiting for breakfast.

Few have experienced the start of day so well in advance of sunrise. If you ask the men that have been there, they will tell you it is one of the special times in life. They will tell you that they relate in a special way to generations of men who made their living following the chuck wagon, sleeping in teepees and working from the back of a good cowhorse.

Few men have had the distinct honor of saddling a 6666 cowhorse in the predawn hours and covering a big pasture from sunrise to mid-day. All of those 6666 cowhorses were born there, raised there, trained there and earn their living there. The same could be said for their mothers. “Sixes” horses are bred, raised and trained to do be the best working ranch horses anywhere, and capable of doing any job required.  A man would look long and hard before he would find a finer string of horses that could carry as many riders in a single day and do all of the work required of a solid ranch horse. The CA members and guests won’t soon forget their ride that day on the horses of the Sixes.