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Fred Garza, 52 tick rider.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fred Garza, 52 tick rider.(The Working Life: STORIES FROM THE 9 TO 5)

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A tick rider patrols the border, the Rio Grande River, on horseback every day. Our job is to see that we don't see any fever ticks on the native livestock or any Mexico strays coming in with fever ticks. I believe there are a little over sixty riders in Texas. There's one per territory. My territory is about thirty miles northwest of Laredo on Mines Road. My dad use d to own a dairy farm in this are a, and I would see the tick inspectors back then, unloading and loading their horses, and I'd stand there just looking at them. Every day I would look at that person, at that gentleman, saddle up his horse and go on, and I'd think to myself, I'd dream to myself, "One day I'll be a tick inspector."

On a typical day we get up at six in the morning and feed the horses. Frankie Sullivan--he lives at the same camp I live in--he's got a couple of horses and I've got three, and we drink coffee, wait for...

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