Some folks don't realize it, but in the early days of the great west, cattle ranchers had a great responsibility to the big cities in the east to keep the stock moving to the packing houses on time so that they could handle it all right. Now once in a while, if a rancher didn't have the cattle he had promised to deliver, he would try to buy or borrow it from a friend - but sometimes on account of drought, rustling, or freezing weather, that might be hard to do...