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Show Cattle branding day scheduled at Pipe Spring Friday As part of the Living Ranch theme, Tipe Spring National Monument will again hold & public cattle branding on the Monument on Friday, August 15. The event will start about 10 a.m. and last into the late ufternoon. Branding is one of the events which contribute to the "Living Ranch" theme i at Pipe Spring. Several brand-1 ings were held in May when local ranchers brought their; cattle back to the restored , corrals recalling the historic! atmosphere of the ranching period at Pipe Spring. Branding Is only one of .sev-oral .sev-oral methods of bringing the' old ranch back to life. Neighborhood Neigh-borhood Youth Corps girls In period dress and local Relief I Society ladies from Moccasin I have added period interest by I putting on demonstration and guiding visitors through the historic buildings n period dress. Besides the cattle which are only brought in for the branding purposes, ducks, geese, chickens, live in the Monument. Horses graze on the recently fenced historic meadow. David Johnson, local Moccasin Moc-casin rancher will brand some of his calves born since the May branding. The branding brand-ing held in May attracted wide attention and visitors from back East had a rare opportunity op-portunity to witness a bit of the Old West. |