Bob snyder austin

Bob was born February 4th, 1932 in Basin, Wyoming to Carl & Murial Snyder. He had 2 sisters and 1 brother. His dad was a sharecrop farmer in the Basin area. After the 9th grade he went to work as a ranch hand on neighboring ranches and worked his way over to the Tensleep area.

When he was 16, Bob trailed cattle from Tensleep to Lost Cabin and eventually loaded the cattle on a train to Omaha. He rode the caboose and went with the cattle. He had a 10 day pass and would return as a passenger.

In the late 40’s he and 2 other cowboys took the job of gathering wild horses off the BLM Bad Lands between Worland and Manderson. At this time it was open range where ranchers would turn out on it also. In a month’s time they gathered close to 150 head. They stayed at a homestead where there was a fenced pasture, corral and dugout that they stayed in. They would ship the wild horses from here. Bob recalls riding 13 days straight to get one sly mare captured. For the branded horses that belonged to the ranchers they got paid $15.00 gathering fee for each horse and f

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