The herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen

Usage examples of remuda.

There were probably half a dozen present who knew of his blindness, but not a word was said until all the extras were chosen and the culling out of the overplus of the various remudas began.

Crown Vee animals were branded, eighteen hundred and ten cows and heifers ready to breed, one hundred and forty-two good bulls eager to breed them, and eight hundred and twenty-six steers, a herd of twenty-seven hundred and seventy-eight, all marked on the left hip, plus one hundred and thirty-two remuda horses and six mules branded lightly on the left shoulder by Nacho and the wrangler.

After the noon break he took the grulla from the remuda and went scouting.

Drenched and blinded by the slashing rain, the men were trying desperately to turn the frightened cattle away from the chuck wagon, where Jiggers was hanging on to the frantic mules, and the horses in the remuda were squealing their terror as the thundering herd swept toward them.

She added that her uncle, as close to being a chief as the free and easy Papago would abide, kept a remuda of riding stock.

Like the Papago encampment itself, their remuda of over a hundred head had been hidden up a side canyon, watered by a recently dammed pool, with plenty of thorny but tasty mesquite for the ponies, mules, and burros to browse as a couple of Indian kids kept watch at the mouth of the natural stock pen.

I attempted to explain that he had a good remuda, but he still insisted, and I promised him if he would be at my wagon the next morning when we corralled, he should have a good one.

We were encamped about three miles from the corrals, and leaving orders for the cook to follow up, the camp was abandoned with the exception of the remuda.

Once fully accoutered, knights mounted their high horsesbattle-trained destriers big and strong enough to bear fully armed men at a fair speed for the time it might take to make contact with the enemy aheadwhile grooms led their amblers back to the remuda.

All three of the outfits kept in touch with each other, camping far enough apart to avoid any conflict in night-herding the remudas.

The different outfits dropped out as their wagons were reached, and when my remuda was sighted, old man Don ordered it brought in for a change of horses.

They had bought two whole remudas, and picked over five or six others until their purchases amounted to over five hundred head.

There had been nothing said about the remudas before leaving, and while we had an abundance of horses, no one knew them better than I did.

The men were jubilant and light-hearted as a lot of school-boys, and with the exception of a feeling of jealousy among the foremen over the remudas, we were a gay crowd, turning night into day.

Add those to your old remudas, and cull back your surplus, allowing ten to the man, twelve to the foreman, and five extra to each herd in case of cripples or of galled backs.