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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]
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.
Reyes graduated from Texas A&M and served as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army during the Korean War before returning to Texas to pursue his career in the cattle industry. After completing his masters in Animal Science, Reyes worked for Texas A&M with a foreign agricultural contract in Mexico where he gained contacts that he would ...
On September 13, 1892, she married divorced cattle baron Samuel Burk Burnett. [2] Before their marriage, Burnett had made his fortune in cattle ranching, establishing the Four Sixes Ranch . He partnered with Quanah Parker to lease grazing land on Comanche and Kiowa reservations in Oklahoma , making Parker wealthy as well.
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.
The National Ranching Heritage Center, located on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, Texas, is a unique museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history and heritage of ranching in the United States. Established in 1971, the center sits on a 27-acre historical park and features a collection of authentic ranching structures ...
When Sean Pennington, a 56-year-old cattle farmer based near Canadian, Texas, first saw the flames approaching his ranch, his first concern wasn’t his home – it was his animals.
The massive fire has left a charred landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and destroyed as many as 500 structures, including burned-out homes, in the Texas Panhandle. It has merged with ...