Excellent story.

T-Bones like walking around for the taking, provided it doesn't take you first....I'm hungry now...

Bobby Tomak,
There was a guy South of Marathon and Sanderson that was selling wild bull hunts, actually they were Mexican fighting bulls that got across the river...He didn't have much success at selling the hunts so he hired a bunch of us kids to gather them up or rope them or dart them..Being kids we roped most of them and when we had a load we offed them to San Angelo...I was told they would charge when you shot them, but they didn't seem all that bad to us, just like any other wild cow, but really fun to rope, get them down, sew one eye shut and most of the other eye shut and then you could drive them to the pens..

We also had a herd of wild Longhorns from the original Cap Yates herd on the Rosillas Ranch South of Marathon, Texas..When I leased it, we roped all those cattle and sold them to JC Bloodworth in Colorado, some of those Long horns were at least 25 years old..The Bull was really old and we sold him at auction in Midland, Texas, He got loose and came home, about 300 miles btw, quite a trip, so we roped him again and just let him go finish his life out, sans his nuts!

Jerry Huffaker, the good taxidermist, who posts here was a good friend of the Yates family. Cap Yates was the sole owner of Yates Field, and never knew he was one of the richest men in the world, he was just a cowboy and a grand old man, as was his son Fayette...