Texas Longhorn Cattle
Posted by BobWms on 2nd September 2005
LONGHORN CATTLE. The Texas longhorn is a hybrid breed resulting from a random mixing of Spanish retinto (criollo) stock and English cattle that Anglo-American frontiersmen brought to Texas from southern and midwestern states in the 1820s and 1830s. A few old-timers, J. Frank Dobieqv wrote, "contend that both the horns and bodies of the Texas cattle were derived from importations from the States out of Longhorn Herefords of England," Read the rest of this entry »
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