They showed no sign of injury by rough usage, only their damnable tempers, rage and chagrin were responsible for their deaths.
Inside the corral everything, of course, had to be roped and thrown to be branded.

It was rough and even dangerous work, and individual animals, again generally cows, would sometimes make desperate charges, and even assist an unfortunate "puncher" in scaling the walls.

In after years we built proper corrals, and in the course of time, by frequent and regular handling, the cattle became more docile and better-mannered.
For one thing, they were certainly easily gathered.

When we wanted to round them up we had only to ride out ten or twenty miles, swing round and "holler," when all the cattle within sight or hearing would at once start on the run for the ranch.

These were not yet domesticated cattle in that they always wanted to run and never to walk.