Most of the roads and some may still be used to be open range, cattle in the roads was always a hazard. New Mexico speed bumps! Nothing like flying down the road in the dark and come up on some black cattle in the road. Dead cows on the side of the road was a pretty common sight back then. East of the ranch there’s a 14 mile stretch of road that’s open range and they have a few cattle hit every year. You don’t drive away from one of those, they even disable the big trucks. You hit a cow in a open range area and your responsible and of course that particular cow will always be his best and highest priced one.
***cattle in the roads was always a hazard.***
We used to have a joke about the Navajo horses in the 4-Corners area.
Flying down the road, you hit a horse that was worth maybe $200. The instant you hit it it suddenly becomes a $5000.00 race horse!