I’ve gotten a lot of email about reata ropes so here’s some more information. All ropes will break but reata ropes are more likely to do so, especially if not maintained. After use they need to be washed with water (just hold the coils under a faucet and rinse) and…
Roping is a central skill for cowboys. Although there are times when herding cows into pens and then into narrow alleys and then into squeeze chutes where they can be stopped and held for inspection, doctoring and branding is advantageous, the experience of most cowboys is that roping is still…
In the western United States there is a growing interest is using a leather reata rope (it’s actually La Riata in Spanish). These were the types of ropes used by the Spanish Vaqueros (cowboys) when they first brought cows into the southwest because obviously nylon hadn’t been invented! Reatas are…
