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When the spring bluebonnets are blooming, these cowboys can be              maneuver through cattle-filled corrals and skillfully rope baby calves’
     found in the branding corral, around a ring of fire where smoke swirls      feet to bring them to the branding fire. A cracker-jack shot from a roper
     around branding irons. While the herd settles, they serve up coffee and     will elicit dust-stained smiles from the rest of the crew and earn him
     colorful stories. They smell of singed hair and sweat from flanking and     bragging rights, at least until the next roper throws an equally great
     branding the year’s calf crop. Their talents are on display as they quietly   loop.
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