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Cattle rustlers using running irons were ingenious in changing brands. [3] The most famous brand change involved the making of the X I T brand into the Star-Cross brand, a star with a cross inside. [4] [5] Brands became so numerous that it became necessary to record them in books that the ranchers could carry in their pockets. Laws were passed ...
An open range sign along the Interstate 10 Frontage Road in southern Arizona.. Where there are "open range" laws, people wanting to keep animals off their property must erect a legal fence to keep animals out, as opposed to the "herd district" where an animal's owner must fence it in or otherwise keep it on the person's own property.
The standard Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association identification sign; photo taken near the ranch of Gene S. Walker, Sr., in Webb County, Texas.. Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Inc., is an organization established in 1877 by forty Texas cattlemen for the purpose of combating unbridled livestock theft.
Dec. 26—About $3 million in federal funding will be made available to New Mexico ranchers to help them protect livestock against predators, including Mexican wolves in an area designated for ...
The use of livestock branding allowed the cattle owned by different ranchers to be identified and sorted. Beginning with the settlement of Texas in the 1840s, and expansion both north and west from that time, through the Civil War and into the 1880s, ranching dominated western economic activity.
2. Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo's Wild West roots lie not in gold or silver but cattle, as the wide, open spaces attracted ranchers to the area in the late 1800s.
A mysterious virus has been infecting cattle herds across the central and southern U.S. for the past few weeks. For Texas ranchers recovering from recent wildfires that burned more than 1 million ...
The price of cattle rose up to $75 a head (around $1,493 today). [5] Ranchers could turn a profit driving cattle from as far as Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to California even though the Chiricahua Apaches took many cattle. [6] The ranchers would drive the cattle up California's Central Valley.