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A spotted Texas longhorn near Hamilton, Texas
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A spotted Texas longhorn near Hamilton, Texas
The Texas Longhorn: Shaped By Nature.
by Clay Coppedge
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city folks who can't tell an emu from a turkey can spot a Texas longhorn
cow when they see one. There's no such thing as an Oklahoma longhorn
or California longhorn. Longhorns are as Texan as it gets.
Like the people who forged the state, the longhorn is a product of
the land. Or as Frank Dobie put it, "The Texas longhorn was bred not
by man but shaped by nature and man benefited."
A longhorn
near
Hamilton
Photo courtesy
Barclay
Gibson
, October 2004
exans
benefited the most. The longhorn is credited with lifting the state
from economic ruin wrought by the Civil War and becoming the foundation
of a vast cattle empire. The longhorn gave us cattle drives and folk
heroes we called cowboys. More than any other creature, the longhorn
gave Texas an identity separate from the rest of the country.
Other breeds of cattle, like the Hereford and Angus, were created
by selective crossbreeding. The longhorn's evolution began in 1493
when Columbus made a return voyage to the New World and dropped off
a load of Spanish cattle at Santo Domingo.
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