And in parts of Wyoming for decades, old-timers would solemnly swear a last-minute switch was made, and that in some lonely place up a remote canyon somewhere one might find a white-haired old man hiding out in a cabin, braiding intricate horsehair riatas to pass the time away. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)
We roosted under a slanting shed -- where were stock saddles, silver-mounted bits and spurs, rawhide riatas, branding-irons, and all the lumber of the cattle business. ❋ Various (N/A)
Without pausing, they came trailing across the valley in two separate columns, thousands of horsemen and women, the men on the right hand, the women on the left; all riding bareback with simple _riatas_ twisted around the horse's lower jaw. ❋ Ritter Brown (N/A)
Again did the saddle boys build a small fire in a hole, over which they proceeded to cook their breakfast; while the horses cropped the grass near by, secured by the ever useful lariats, or riatas. ❋ James Carson (N/A)
Jerry had declined to shoot the grizzly when the beast was held by a cordon of riatas. ❋ Quincy Allen (N/A)
Then, too, we can coil our riatas over one shoulder, and slip our coats on over them. ❋ Claude A. Labelle (N/A)
The night before our departure the wolves ate up all the riatas by which our mules and horses were picketed; and in the morning all the animals had disappeared but one. ❋ Unknown (1916)
But now those swarthy, dare-devil riders were as gentle as women; they urged the tiny youngsters onward with harmless switches or with painless blows from loose-coiled riatas; they picked them up in their arms and rode with them. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
They rode away toward a herd of horses half a mile down the valley, their riatas soon in their hands and widening and swinging into great loops. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)
Under the shed were rows of saddles, riatas, spurs mounted with silver, bits ornamented with the same metal, curved short irons for the range branding, long, heavy "stamps" for the corral branding. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Nan had decorated the rooms with yellow and red, hung the walls with riatas, strings of red peppers and the like, obtained Spanish guitar players, and added enough fiery Mexican dishes to the more digestible refreshments to emphasize the Spanish flavour. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Utensils depending from trees, beds beneath canvas tarpaulins on pine needles, saddlery, riatas, branding irons scattered about. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
We roosted under a slanting shed, -- where were stock saddles, silver-mounted bits and spurs, rawhide riatas, branding-irons, and all the lumber of the cattle business, -- and hung out our tongues and gasped for breath and earnestly desired the sun to go down or a breeze to come up. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
If the current is very bad, you can splice riatas, hitch one end to the horse and the other to a tree on the farther side, and start the combination. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
They braided their own riatas from rawhide, and soon surpassed their teachers in the use of them. ❋ George Wharton James (1890)
But when two or three men grasped the chain that was around his body and suddenly threw him on his back, all four of his legs were in the air at once, the riatas flew from all directions and he was vanquished. ❋ Allen Kelly (1885)
What is more wonderful than the duel described in the _San Francisco Examiner_, between Mexican vaqueros, in which the only weapons used were their riatas? ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)
At eleven o'clock we saddled our horses, hitched them with their long riatas (or lassos), and then brought out a side of bacon, ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Mi riata [esta] [bien] [grande]. ❋ Joe Tijerina (2006)
