Worth the fifteen minute wait

Two weekends ago Tom and I were with my dad checking Cecil's Mill, when dad got telling us stories.
He said when he was young they also raised colts for sale beyond just the cattle they ran. They wintered them in Cecilville and summered them on a forest permit and also the Taylor place.
They would sale the colts to the Apaches. They were pretty good horses. Had a stud and quite a few brood mares.
It was first of December. Him and Judd were to move them off the forest. They had found them earlier in November and left them in Los Burros. As they left the ranch they stopped by the Midway. Which at the time was also the post office and told Donald Goodman to watch for them. They would be a few hours and they would need someone to stop traffic on the 60 as they crossed back.
They got to Los Burros. To get them to all follow them, Judd saddled up the stud. They did a few laps around the clearing until all the mares were in tow. Dad brought up the rear. They strung out for quite a ways. Mare,foal,mare,foal.
Back at the midway, a highway patrol man had stopped by the store and Donald asked if he wouldn't mind hanging around just a little longer to help the boys and horses to cross the road. It had been about two hours and it shouldn't be much longer.
Close to that time Donald could here them coming down the road. So Donald and the officer went out to stop traffic on the 60 while the horses crossed. The officer told Donald after they had gone bye that is was worth the fifteen minute wait.
We asked how old he was at this time and he remembered it was the last winter before he went into the service.

Now that explains all the pictures of colts in at the ranch corals.