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John Horton Slaughter with his shotgun Incorrectly identified as "Terry's Texas Rangers" in fact these were cowboys of John H. Slaughter; see [1]. John Horton Slaughter (October 2, 1841 – February 16, 1922), also known as Texas John Slaughter, was an American lawman, cowboy, poker player and rancher in the Southwestern United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
On April 6, 1984, more than 30 federal, state and local lawmen raided a 3,500-acre (14 km 2) ranch near the Texas Hill Country town of Mountain Home. The officers were responding to reports that workers on the ranch, kidnapped from Interstate 10, [1] were being forced to work and that at least one worker had died and was cremated on the premises. [2]
The years 1856–58 on the Texas frontier were particularly vicious and bloody as settlers continued to encroach into the Comancheria. They plowed under valuable hunting grounds, and the Comanche lost grazing land for their herds of horses. [1] In addition, the United States had done a great deal to block the Comanches' traditional raids into ...
Horse slaughter is the practice of slaughtering horses to produce meat for consumption. Humans have long consumed horse meat; the oldest known cave art, the 30,000-year-old paintings in France's Chauvet Cave , depict horses with other wild animals hunted by humans. [ 1 ]
Meanwhile, Slaughter ranched near the Green River in Utah, followed by eastern New Mexico. [3] Slaughter acquired a ranch in Glasscock County, Texas, in 1890 which he managed it until 1898, when he sold it. He was the vice president of the People's National Bank of Colorado City, Texas. [3] Slaughter acquired the 99,188-acre U Lazy S Ranch in 1901.
Nearly 80% of horse owners surveyed report fear of the slaughter pipeline as a key reason they delay seeking help or rehoming their beloved horse past the point when they can provide adequate care.
A Texas community is mourning the death of an 18-year-old junior rodeo champion who died in a freak accident involving a horse. Ace Patton Ashford of Lott, Texas, was taking care of a sick calf at ...
The Nueces Massacre, also known as the Massacre on the Nueces, was a violent confrontation between Confederate soldiers and Texas Germans [5] on August 10, 1862, in Kinney County, Texas. Many first-generation immigrants from Germany settled in Central Texas in a region known as the Hill Country.