But should he throw his rider once, twice or several times he never forgets that the thing is at least possible, and so he may repeat his capers for a long time to come.

All cow-horses have ever afterwards a holy dread of the rope, never forgetting its power and effect experienced during the breaking process.
Thus, in roping a broken horse on the open or in a corral, if your rope simply lies _over_ his neck, and yet not be round it, he will probably stop running and resign himself to capture.

Even the commonly-used single rope corral, held up by men at the corners, they will not try to break through.

Bronco-busters only last a few years, the hard jarring affects their lungs and other organs so disastrously.
One of our men, with the kindest consideration, much appreciated, confidentially showed me a simple method of tying up a bronco's head with a piece of thin rope, adjusted in a particular way, which made pitching or bucking almost, but not always, an impossibility.

He was perhaps a little shamefaced in doing so, but such sensibility was not for me; anything to save one from the horrible shaking up and jarring of a pitching horse! And yet there was always the inclination to fix the string surreptitiously.