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A remuda is a horse herd from which ranch-hands select their mounts. The word is of Spanish derivation, meaning 'remount', i.e.: "change of horses", and is in common use in the American West.
The person in charge of the remuda is generally known as a wrangler. The wrangler provides spare horses during roundup, when cowboys change mounts 3 to 4 times a day.[1]
- ^ Haley, J. Evetts (1929). The XIT Ranch of Texas: And the Early Days of the Llano Estacado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 153. ISBN 0806114282.