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  2. Texas Longhorn - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. National Ranching Heritage Center - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. XIT Ranch - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Wildfires have devastated the Texas cattle industry and the ...

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    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.

  6. Fort Worth Stockyards - Wikipedia

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    The Stockyards experienced early success. By 1907, the Stockyards sold a million cattle per year. The stockyards was an organized place where cattle, sheep, and hogs could be bought, sold and slaughtered. Fort Worth remained an important part of the cattle industry until the 1950s. Business suffered due to livestock auctions held closer to ...

  7. Cattle drives in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cattle Raisers Association of Texas. History of the cattlemen of Texas : a brief resume of the live stock industry of the Southwest and a biographical sketch of many of the important characters whose lives are interwoven therein (1914, reprint 1991). 350 pp. online; Clayton, Lawrence; Hoy, Jim; and Underwood, Jerald. Vaqueros, Cowboys, and ...

  8. DRIED UP: Texas cattle industry faces existential crisis from ...

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    AUSTIN, Texas — The megadrought in the Western U.S.,… The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of ...

  9. Texas cattle inventory down for 4th consecutive year; lowest ...

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    U.S. cattle inventory is down for the fourth consecutive year, according to data from the USDA. Texas cattle inventory down for 4th consecutive year; lowest U.S. supply in 73 years Skip to main ...