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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. Margaret Borland - Wikipedia

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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]

4. 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 ...

5. Humberto "Bert" Reyes - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Economy of Texas - Wikipedia

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   In the early days of Anglo-American settlement, furs and hides were the major products derived from cattle. Beef was not particularly popular in the United States. However, Texas entrepreneurs soon pioneered the beef industry, and demand steadily increased. The cattle industry enjoyed its greatest financial success in the later 1870s and 1880s.

8. History of Fort Worth, Texas - Wikipedia

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   The cattle industry was key to producing the economic boom years of Fort Worth and its association as "Cowtown." Fort Worth was a good resting point for cowboys driving their cattle to Abilene, Kansas. As many northern cattle buyers established headquarters in Fort Worth, new businesses set up in the city, including Pendery and Wilson's Liquor ...

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

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   Death and destruction hit iconic industry. The cattle business in Texas is worth an estimated $15.5 billion, making it by far the most profitable agricultural commodity in the state, according to ...