Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Western Heritage Parade & Cattle Drive is the kick-off for the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo and celebrates Texas heritage. The mile long route through the streets of downtown San Antonio. Hadley Barrett (1929–2017), for twenty-eight years the voice of the San Antonio Rodeo, had just completed announcing twenty-one rodeo performances a ...
The engine is painted green and inscribed with the brand name Wolseley, and has a metal manufacturer's plate which reads: Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company Ltd Birmingham England. The plant, weighing 550 kg, was used on a sheep property named 'Emoh Ruo' in the Rockley-Black Springs area of New South Wales. It was used by Roy and George ...
Alamo Stadium is a horseshoe-shaped football and soccer stadium in the Monte Vista Historic District of San Antonio, Texas.Nicknamed "The Rock Pile" due to its primarily limestone construction it was completed in September 1940 as a Works Progress Administration project.
In 1868, David Morrill Poor, a former Confederate officer from San Antonio, drove 1,100 cattle from east of San Angelo into Mexico over the Chihuahua Trail. This event, the "Great Chihuahua Cattle Drive," was the largest cattle drive attempted over that trail up to that time, but the market was much better in Kansas than in Mexico, so most ...
A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators. When traversing rough terrain, a crook is an aid to balance.
In response, San Angelo City Council and City Manager Daniel Valenzuela approved the sheep statue.
Sheep struggle less using the Tally-Hi method, reducing strain on the shearer and there is a saving of about 30 seconds shearing each sheep. When finished, the shorn sheep is removed from the board via a chute in the floor, or wall, to a counting out pen, efficiently removing it from the shed.
[1] [2] By age 15, she was working as a prostitute in San Antonio, Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] By the age of 20, she had started her own brothel. [ 2 ] She became extremely popular for having a cordial and sincere attitude, choosing only the most attractive young women as her "girls", requiring that her "girls" practice good hygiene, and for maintaining ...