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After my arrival at North Platte, I found that the ranchmen or cattlemen, had organized a regular annual "roundup," to take place in the spring of the year.
The word "roundup" is derived from the fact that during the winter months the cattle become scattered over a vast tract of land, and the ranchmen assemble together in the spring to sort out and each secure his own stock. They form a large circle, often of a circumference of two hundred miles, and drive the cattle towards a common centre, where, all the stock being branded, each owner can readily separate his own from the general herd, and then he drives them to his own ranch.