Them Ain’t Cowboys; Them’s Ostrichboys

One of the most unusual yet lucrative types of ranching came into fashion around 1900 in Arizona’s Salt River Valley.  With a head- ‘em-up, move –em-out, and a yippie-ti-yi-yay, cowboys, er, ostrichboys were actually herding flocks of funny-looking birds. It wasn’t that the cattle business had fallen off so much, but rather that women’s fashions of the time dictated the wearing of ostrich feathers on hats and dresses. Those die-hard cattlemen who originally scoffed at such an enter