In the 90’s I would see cowboys moving cattle around small towns as the train passed thru. But that’s much different from having to spend the night with them. I have a photograph from my grandmother’s Colorado ranch that shows an old type car where the side of the car folded down into a shelf/table and the side was filled with cans and utensils, much like a chuckwagon. There’s one photograph of father’s stepfather watering his horse at the watering hole, so horses were still used there around 1910.
Henry Coe owned a HUGE ranch in the hills east of Morgan Hill, California. They conducted roundups and drove the cattle to market until the late 20s or early 30s when trucks were used to drive the cattle to the railroad loading yard. His daughter grew up on the ranch and loved those cattle drives and riding the range. It’s a magnificent public park now.