Annual Round Up and Cowboy Cookout Photos (from previous years)

The pit is dug, the wood is stacked and now, to start dinner, but first a fire and coffee.

Coffee is first.

Everybody wants it an hour ago!

Now we’re cooking!

Breakfast will be ready when I say its ready!

Jack Kalsing at the cook fire.

If I help, will we eat sooner?

Joe Usher and Stephanie Barrett cooking for the annual roundup crew.

I hope everyone is hungry.

Nathan Robinett cooks the eggs.

Real chuck wagon coffee and peppers on the fire.

Relaxing after a meal.

Giulia Chapman (left) and Taylor Cain.

We need a branding iron fire too.

Heading out for the round up.

At the end of the round up, the cattle are herded into pens.

With the cattle in the pens, John Chapman gives orders for the days work.

Karla & Karen are attempting to solve a rope problem.

John Chapman looks down from his horse to check the progress of the work at hand.

John wipes blood from his hands as he helps with the castration.

Barney Chapman digs the fire pit at the Azle ranch.

Barney Chapman with his daughter, Livia Chapman.

Beef fatjas served at the Aledo ranch.

Cattle heading to water at the Aledo ranch.

Coal fire pit is ready at the Aledo ranch round-up.

Dinner is finished, now it is time for coffee and bed.

Giampiero Chapman, from Rome, Italy eating dinner at the Aledo ranch.

Keith Harrison cooking dinner at the Aledo ranch round-up.

One of the Squaw Creek Ranch horses.

Reese Wilhite with a Squaw Creek Ranch horse.

Some prefer to say in the TeePee.

Start of the camp fire.

The fire pit is ready at the Aledo Round Up.

Wall tent is set up and ready for sleepers.

Some Chapman Family ranch stock.

Working the calves.

Azle round-up, 5-30 AM fire.

Barney Chapman and Brad Brown cooking biscuits.

Barney Chapman by the fire at the Azle ranch round-up.

Barney Chapman cooks pancakes before the work starts.

Barney Chapman stokes the fire to cook the breakfast potatoes.

Early morning coffee drinkers.

Everyone gathers around the Azle coffee pot when the day starts frosty.

John Chapman ready for the day to start at the Azle ranch.

Dave Rubinson and Keith Harrison.

Bruce, the bear dog.

Giampiero Chapman from Rome, Italy having a great time at the Aledo round up.

Roscoe Chapman, John Chapman, Hugh Brown and Barney Chapman by the breakfast fire.

John Chapman (on Lonnie), Livia Chapman, Rick _____, Karla Stailey and Karen Monez (Chapman).

John Chapman at the Azle ranch round-up.

John Chapman really wants everyone to understand exactly what he wants done at the Aledo round-up.

Karen Monez (Chapman) at the Azle ranch.

Livia Chapman

Livia Chapman cooks fatjas for dinner.

Livia, some of us have more fun than others.

Roscoe Chapman having lots of fun.

Barbara Graham speaking with Barney Chapman while others watch the activity at the Azle round-up

Buster Frierson, Reese Wilhite and other cowboys at the Aledo round-up.

Karla Stailey at the Aledo round-up.

“Don't tell me I am not dirty.”

- Don Conrad

Cindy Bursey, “I am here, behind the horse.”

Keith Harrison and John Chapman at the Aledo round-up.

Some just come to look.

Troy _____, a friend, and Josh _____at the Azle round-up.

Lorrie Clifton at the Azle round-up.

Taylor Cain helps with the biscuits (at home she tells Mom she does not know how).

All the kids want to ride the Bursey horse, Barbara _____ and Peggy Brown look on.

Bruce the bear dog loves the attention.

How much longer can I ride?  (Cindy Bursey leading the horse.)

It sure would be more fun on the inside.

These boys came to ride.

Great grand son of Hugh Brown.

I want to get in there, too.

Rifle, the horse has a new friend.

Everyone helps, however, the cattle do not always cooperate at the Azle round-up.

Some time the cattle spook and then, things are off until another day.

Ten cowboys are after the herd at the Aledo round-up.

Barney Chapman moves the coals to the fatja cooker (note the wind board) at the Azle round-up.

Cooking biscuits, fatjas, cornbread & cobbler all at once is always a balancing act.

Fire kissed peppers really make the fatjas better.

Stephanie Barrett cooks while Hugh Brown stokes the fire.

Branding on a wet day at the Aledo round-up.

Onions and pepper melting in the big skillet while the beef cooks elsewhere at the Aledo round-up.

Branding at the Azle round-up.

Karla Stailey at the head of the calf and Reese Wilhite at the hind feet (notice the mud) at the Aledo round-up.

Everyone has a job and it takes about 60 seconds at the Azle round-up.

Fred Bursey settles the cattle at the Azle round-up.

Guess what goes into the bucket Livia Chapman is holding?

John Chapman applies the brand at the Azle round-up.

John Chapman branding at the Azle round-up.

Livia Chapman applies the ear tag and brother, Roscoe Chapman, is castrating

Roscoe has this one at the Azle round-up.

Keith Harrison at the branding fire.

Reni Gustafson has her equipment ready (notice the dust).

Six work on the calf at once as the heeler watches at the Aledo round-up.

The Burseys are always there to help.

The calf is down, and, you have your choice, dust or mud.

The calf is the one in black.

The calf is pulled over at the Azle round-up.

The heeler approaches the pen of cattle at the Azle round-up.

The heeler with a broken foot and an improvised stirrup.

The Squaw Creek Ranch brand being put in place.

This calf is so big he is heeled and headed, both to get him over at the Azle round-up.

This calf got the best of Roscoe Chapman before the others came to the rescue.