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The Texas Cowboys is an honorary student service organization at the University of Texas at Austin. The organization was founded in 1922 with the purpose of serving the University of Texas and maintaining Smokey the Cannon. [1] [2] It is considered one of the "oldest and most elite student organizations" at the university.
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).
Texas A&M University is the state's largest of higher learning in terms of enrollment and largest public university, having 77,491 students [3] while Southwest College for the Deaf is the state's smallest college with an enrollment of 48 in the fall of 2023. [4]
The word cowboy did not begin to come into wider usage until the 1870s. The men who drove cattle for a living were usually called cowhands, drovers, or stockmen. [4] While cowhands were still respected in West Texas, [5] in Cochise County the outlaws' crimes and their notoriety grew such that during the 1880s it was an insult to call a legitimate cattleman a "cowboy."
University of North Texas Press, 1990. ISBN 0-929398-15-7. Slatta, Richard W. (January 1990). Cowboys of the Americas. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300056710. Slatta, Richard W. The Cowboy Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, California, 1994. ISBN 0-87436-738-7. Ward, Fay E.; The Cowboy at Work: All About His Job and How He Does It. University of Oklahoma ...
"Smokey II" was used by the Texas Cowboys for over 30 years. The current version of the cannon, Smokey III, weighs 1,200 pounds and fires up to four blank 10-gauge shells at a time. Smokey III was built by Lupton Machine of Austin, out of the trunk of an oak tree in 1988 and purchased by the Texas Cowboys Alumni Association for $15,000.
The McDowell Business Administration Building, built during the presidency of D. Whitney Halladay. The history of East Texas State University (ETSU) comprises the history of the university now known as East Texas A&M University from its renaming as East Texas State University in 1965 (after the establishment of its first doctoral program) to its admission into the Texas A&M University System ...
Entrance to the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame at the Fort Worth Stockyards Simulated campfire scene in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, is a western, historical museum in Fort Worth, Texas, United States that "honors those men and women who have shown excellence in the business and support of rodeo and the western lifestyle in Texas."