My favorite story of Marty Campbells is when he talks about taking classes in college to become a High School English Teacher. The Professors would tend to look down on him. His Cowboy Poetry had no place in thier world. He'd say, "But last friday those Peoms landed me a $250 gig, when was the last time anyone paid you for your peoms," LOL. He went to one reading where a guy was Lauded for a two line Poem that really didn't resonate, but the proper and high society snobby thing was to laud anything this guy wrote. So MArty came up with a two line Peom that showed how this guys poetry affected him. He called it Jumper Cables......
Red is Hot,
Black is Not,
Didn't get him the grade he had hoped for, but it felt good.
On the headgear, I lost my train of thot and point I wanted to make. The best horses born to do great cowwork and ranch work, doesn't really matter what's hanging on the head, they have it in between thier ears,
You were dead on with your description of head gear of course, just growing up in this part of the country, people refer to Mechanical Hackamores as Heackamores and the gear you rode in as Bosals, so it was interesting to hear it refered to differently,
One of the reasons I like this site,
PPRM
