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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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