By gathering them up like snow balls and rolling them down the hill. :)
owners branded cattle that roamed freely, and then cowboys rounded them up
A cattle drive.
Not what, but rather who. And that would be the cowhands that rounded up the cattle and drove them to the railway stockyards.
owners branded cattle that roamed freely, and then cowboys rounded them up
owners branded cattle that roamed freely, and then cowboys rounded them up
They rounded them up and sold them.
The open range system of cattle ranching allowed herds to intermingle without serious problems. As system of branding made separating the cattle by owner allowed this activity.
In the book The Devils Arithmetic, the villagers are rounded up and forced into cattle cars to be transported to a concentration camp. They were locked in for four days and nights.
They have to be rounded up in order to herd them. Rounding up involves gathering them into a large group (cattle tend to spread out over a large area in small groups of 5 to 10 animals) so that they can be put in a corral for when the drive will need to commence.
The ambush was successful and they slaughtered their enemies. The cattle where rounded up and driven into the ravine where they were sluaghtered for their hides.
Nothing. The only "contribution" they ever made to the early American cattle industry was let loose a bunch of Spanish cattle that are now ancestors to the Texas Longhorn and Florida Cracker cattle. After the civil war, there were millions of cattle in southwestern USA that needed to be rounded up and shipped to eastern markets to meet the increasing demand for beef.
Vaqueros is not an English word. It is the South American term for cowboys. The vaqueros rounded up their cattle.