Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, your award-winning Texas History podcast. This is your host Ken Wise

and thank you. Thank you for tuning in today and thank you for your interest

in Texas history. I really appreciate you listening. It's been a busy few weeks around Wies about Texas

World Headquarters. I've had several speaking engagements and such around the

state. It's been a lot of fun, but it's involved a ton of preparation

and travel that kind of set back the production schedule a little bit. This episode's

being released the week after Thanksgiving, 2019.

Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving.

I took a little break over the Thanksgiving week and took the family to the Big Bend

area, which was a wonderful trip. We spent a couple days in Alpine

and a couple days with some friends on their ranch which is really not near

anywhere except one of the entrances to the Park to the Big Bend National Park. So we got some

clean air, some stars, some great fellowship. You might have seen some pictures on

wise about Texas social media. I'm sure I'll put some more out and I think about it. What a great area of Texas.

If you haven't been to West Texas and the Big Bend area, get out there. It's well worth the trip.

Well, I was inspired while I was out there to work up a few

stories about that have some big bin connections so we're going to talk about one

today. Now out west of the Pekas River is really good cattle country and in the

late 1800s which was fairly early in the settlement of that area. Men were seeking their fortune by running cattle near alpine in the high grassland country out there.

And in those days it was open range, when fenced off.

So at certain times of the year, various ranchers from the area would get together to gather

the cattle.

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