Ranchers head to roundup the old-fashioned way—by wagon

WAGONS HO A 2026 water bottle in a cupholder is the only nonauthentic feature of an 1880s U. S. Cavalry ambulance driven in a cross-country wagon train expedition and parked lastThursday at the Circle Bar horse barn at Truscott. Owned by Cliff Teinert, Albany rancher, the wagon was driven by Teinert and pulled by two big Cleveland Bays, an endangered breed. The horse in the background belongs to Circle Bar rancher Jerry Bob Daniel. | PHOTO BY HANABA MUNN WELCH
WAGONS HO A 2026 water bottle in a cupholder is the only nonauthentic feature of an 1880s U. S. Cavalry ambulance driven in a cross-country wagon train expedition and parked lastThursday at the Circle Bar horse barn at Truscott. Owned by Cliff Teinert, Albany rancher, the wagon was driven by Teinert and pulled by two big Cleveland Bays, an endangered breed. The horse in the background belongs to Circle Bar rancher Jerry Bob Daniel. | PHOTO BY HANABA MUNN WELCH

When a country like the USA reaches a 250th anniversary, things happen— like wagon trains.

Except wagon trains don’t just happen. They require organization and participants. Ask Jerry Bob Daniel, Truscott rancher, an organizer of a six-wagon entourage that stopped last Thursday night at his ranch, the Circle Bar, in Truscott, Texas.

Daniel joked that he’d gotten them lost a couple of times. But wago…