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Margaret Heffernan Borland (April 3, 1824 – July 5, 1873) was a pioneering frontier woman who ran her own ranch, as well as handled her own herds. She made a name for herself as a cattle baron and was famous for the drive of Texas Longhorn cattle that she took up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Wichita, Kansas, with her three surviving children and her granddaughter. [1]
Bradley is a rancher and a cattlewoman. She and her family own and operate the Bradley 3 Ranch in Childress County, Texas. [5] Bradley and a handful of women were first to earn a degree in animal husbandry from Oklahoma State University (formerly Oklahoma A&M). She is the first woman to join the Intercollegiate Livestock Judging Team.
A steer. The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. [4] It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. [5]
Death and destruction hit iconic industry. The cattle business in Texas is worth an estimated $15.5 billion, making it by far the most profitable agricultural commodity in the state, according to ...
Data shows the nation's cattle supply has steadily dropped since 1998 from about 110 million cattle head, despite a small bump in inventory between 2013 and 2018, to 87.2 million head this year.
Florence Terry Griswold (May 28, 1875 – July 7, 1941) was an American cattlewoman and rancher from Texas. She was the first woman delegate of the Texas Cattle Raisers Association to attend the Trans-Mississippi Convention and for several years, the only woman delegate.
According to a CNN report, 86% of Texas' cattle industry is located in the Panhandle where he fires have taken over, and a local news station reported that thousands of them have already died in ...
Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).