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Cattle brought into a range from a distance were called `` immigrants ''.

Them new to the country were referred to as `` pilgrims ''.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

Hereford cattle were often called `` white faces '', or `` open-face cattle '', and the old-time cowman gave the name of `` hothouse stock '' to them newly introduced cattle.

Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.

The cowboy called this breed of cattle `` magpies ''.

A `` cattaloe '' was a hybrid offspring of buffalo and cattle.

`` Dry stock '' denoted, regardless of age or sex, such bovines as were givin' no milk.

A `` wet herd '' was a herd of cattle made up entirely of cows, while `` wet stuff '' referred to cows givin' milk.

The cowboy's humorous name for a cow givin' milk was a `` milk pitcher ''.

Cows givin' no milk were knowed as `` strippers ''.

The terminology of the range, in speakin' of `` dry stock '' and `` wet stock '', was confusin' to the tenderfoot.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

The term soon became used and applied to all stolen animals.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.