“Tickrider” live at Stubb’s

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A Tick Rider is a government inspector who rides the banks of the Rio Grande on horseback. He is looking for cattle that have crossed over from Mexico. Some of these cattle carry a fever tick and they can infect cattle on the US side. This is a real “cowboy” job. He spends all day on horseback and retires at night to a government provided shack near the river. It is a lonely job and he had better have his head on straight.
A few years ago, a group of tick riders were sent to Paris, France to teach their job to the French, who were having an outbreak of fever tick.