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	Dickinson Cattle Co. Inc. > Home > Longhorn Info > Longhorn History > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The cattle of the world, regardless of their wide and diverse body types and color patterns, are believed to originate from Bos indicus (the humped cattle of Asia) or Bos taurus (the wild cattle of Europe).
		Although "Mexican" cattle of the long horned variety provided the basic strain, historian J. Frank Dobie documented that an infiltration of cattle of mongrel American blood contributed to the evolution of the Texas Longhorn.
		Through the mid-1800s, these range-rugged, big horned cattle multiplied without the help of man. Traits were genetically fixed, and as a result of survival of the fittest, resulted in ecologically adapted bovine families with extremely good heath, fertility, teeth, disease resistance, and soundness of body and limb.
	www.texaslonghorn.net /longhorn_info/index.cfm (972 words)

	Texas longhorn (cattle) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Longhorns is also the nickname of the sports teams of The University of Texas at Austin and the school mascot is a longhorn named Bevo.
		Though some historians disagree, the Texas longhorn is generally thought to have been created as a cross between the Spanish retinto (criollo) stock left in the United States by Spanish explorers and English cattle brought to Texas from southern and midwestern states in the 1820s and 1830s.
		The leaner longhorn beef was not as attractive in an era where tallow was highly prized, and the longhorn's ability to survive on often poor vegetation of the open range was no longer as much of an issue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas_longhorn_(cattle) (619 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Texas Longhorn Cattle
		However, the romantic Longhorn era came to an end when their range was fenced in and plowed under and imported cattle with quick maturing characteristics were brought in to "improve" beef qualities.
		Fortunately, beginning in 1927, the Texas Longhorn was preserved by the United States Government on wildlife refuges in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
		Thus, the Texas Longhorn was rescued from extinction.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/cattle/texaslonghorn (1016 words)

	JC Longhorns Texas Longhorn Cattle Breeder
		The Texas Longhorn had the strength and endurance to walk the hundreds of miles to market and were known to actually gain weight on the trail.
		Only the strongest cattle survived- those which could handle the droughts, the floods and the blizzards- those which could utilize the forage available and still raise a live, healthy calf- those with sound feet and legs that enabled them to walk miles to water and to breed- and those with adequate horns to protect themselves.
		Texas Longhorns, groomed by nature for hundreds of years, carry the genetic characteristics of fertility, calving ease, mothering ability, disease resistance, longevity, browse utilization, a wide range of climactic adaptability and the general inherited ability to take care of themselves.
	www.jclonghorns.com /history_info.htm (615 words)

	Sekely Longhorns - History
		Texas Longhorn heifers have been known to conceive while still nursing their mother and produce a living calf without assistance before they are even 16 months old.
		Longhorns have a natural resistance to the most common cattle diseases and parasites, including the worst enemy of range cattle, the screw worm.
		The legendary age of cowboy and longhorn lasted only about 20 years, but before it was over, ten million cattle had followed such celebrated "herd highways" as the Chisholm and other famous trails to railhead's primarily in Kansas and Missouri.
	www.sekelylonghorns.com /history.php (1514 words)

	Longhorn Cattle: WhoZoo
		The early explorers brought Longhorn cattle of Spanish ancestry to the island settlements in the "New World" In 1521 Cortes stocked his Mexican Ranch with cattle from the island settlements Cuba and Santa Domingo.
		The two previous paragraphs talk about how this Longhorn cattle population arrived, however nothing extensive was done with the Longhorn cattle population until after the mid-1860's when the U.S. Civil war had left cattle herds decimated and the Texas fever tick plauged cattle drives of the day.
		Longhorns have no real problems in the wild besides predatory animals and the avoidance of habitats in droughts or frosts with inadaquate forage to support a herd.
	www.whozoo.org /Anlife99/brentmor/longhornindex2.htm (876 words)

	Cowboy Showcase: Longhorn Cattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These cattle mingled with cattle lost or abandoned by settlers, or scattered by Indians, and propagated on their own without benefit of man. These animals survived by their own ingenuity - developing through the years the traits of hardiness, endurance, disease resistance, longevity, fertility and the ability to utilize whatever browse was available.
		The same characteristics that the Texas Longhorn developed through the years of neglect are in demand by the cattleman of the twentieth century.
		Longhorns are being crossed with Mexican corrientes for roping cattle.
	www.cowboyshowcase.com /longhorn_cattle.htm (584 words)

	Genetic Advantages of Texas Longhorn Cattle
		On the male side, Longhorn bulls are known to have higher live semen counts than bulls of other breeds, a fact which not only makes them more prone to successfully service their entire herd but is also directly linked to younger breeding ages in female offspring.
		Longhorn cattle are known for their excellent immune systems and natural abilities to ward off diseases which are common and debilitating to most other breeds.
		Several nationally known longhorn breeders make it a point to saddle break their steers, and young bulls and heifers are frequently halter broken for 4-H projects and so that they can be shown by children.
	www.fairlealonghorns.com /Articles/genetic.html (1492 words)

	Longhorn Cattle Society - About Us
		The Longhorn is beyond equal as a suckler cow.
		The Longhorn was renowned for the high butterfat of its milk which, in days gone by, was used in the making of famous cheeses like Stilton and Red Leicester.
		Today’s Longhorns are clean, modern cattle, well capable of producing lean beef with superior eating qualities to suit today’s discerning market.
	www.longhorncattlesociety.com /about.php (444 words)

	History of Texas Longhorns
		Most of the Longhorns were unbranded, survivors of Indian raids, scattered by stampedes and weather, escaped from missions or abandoned after ranch failures.
		Longhorns, groomed by Mother Nature, carried the ideal characteristics of resistance—they were tremendous for long drives.
		The purpose of the Association was to recognize the Texas Longhorn and its link with American history, to promote awareness of Texas Longhorn cattle, to recognize present breeders, to encourage others to develop and maintain herds and to preserve for posterity this magnificent breed of cattle.
	www.tlbaa.org /Resources/lhhistory.html (565 words)

	Bar L Cattle Company About Texas Longhorns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Texas Longhorns grazing a pasture, with their many different colors and impressive horns, give a ranch the ambiance and atmosphere of days gone by.
		Texas Longhorn cattle have a presence about them that is hard to convey until you have seen them in your very own pasture.
		The gentleness of these cattle can be observed at these dozens of shows as children as young as six or seven years old lead Texas Longhorn cattle into the show ring with a halter and lead rope.
	www.texaslonghorncattle.cc /look-here.htm (680 words)

	DWD Longhorns
		Texas Longhorn cattle were driven north from Texas up legendary cattle trails to railheads in Kansas and Missouri as well as to other northern and western states where they became the seed stock for the cattle industry throughout the Great Plains and beyond.
		This movement of cattle has been called "the largest movement of animals under the direction of man in the history of the world." The very traits that facilitated survival of the Texas Longhorns in the wild are of economic importance to agricultural producers today.
		Texas Longhorn beef is preferred by health-conscious and discerning consumers because it ranks highest or near the top in sensory panels for taste and tenderness compared to other certified branded beef, marbles predominately to the choice grade, yet has the fat and cholesterol content of the leanest of seafood or skinless poultry.
	www.dwdlonghorns.com /philosophy.html (1086 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Texas longhorn is a hybrid breed resulting from a random mixing of Spanish retinto (criollo) stock and English cattle that Anglo-American frontiersmen brought to Texas from southern and midwestern states in the 1820s and 1830s.
		Longhorns, with their long legs and hard hoofs, were ideal trail cattle; they even gained weight on the way to market.
		Longhorns were bred almost out of existence; by the 1920s only a few small herds remained.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/atl2.html (940 words)

	Texas Longhorn History
		An estimated 10 million Texas cattle were trailed to northern markets between 1866 and 1895 bringing in the staggering sum of $200,000,000.
		The same characteristics that the Texas Longhorn developed through the years of neglect are in demand by the cattleman of the 21st century - calving ease, fertility, disease resistance, and longevity.
		Despite the movie director's love of good stampedes, the Texas Longhorn is a very docile bovine and easy to work with as witnessed by the number of men and women who work with cattle on foot and by the number of youngsters who exhibit these long horned cattle in the show ring.
	www.obryantranch.com /longhornhistory.htm (785 words)

	American West - Cattle Industry
		The longhorn cattle were kept on an open range, looked after by cowboys called vaqueros.
		Homesteaders who had established themselves in Kansas objected to the cattle crossing their land because they carried a tick that killed other animals.
		Cattle were to be driven from Texas to Abilene and were then taken East by train.
	www.historyonthenet.com /American_West/cattle_industry.htm (824 words)

	Cattlemen's Texas Longhorn Registry
		All Texas Longhorn cattle that pass the requirements for registration in CTLR are welcome, regardless of their bloodline or previous registration in any other Texas Longhorn breed association.
		The entire federal government owned herd of Texas Longhorns at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma was registered with the CTLR through 2002 prior to their management change to natural selection.
		Cattle produced through live cover, artificial insemination and embryo transfer shall be considered as initial registrants and subject to both visual inspection and blood typing.
	www.ctlr.org /registration.html (341 words)

	TEXAS LONGHORN CATTLE
		Cattle arrived in the Americas with the first Spanish settlers – many of them long-horned Andalusian varieties.
		There were forty million longhorns in Texas alone by the end of the nineteenth century.
		They should not be confused with the English Longhorn, an historic breed which is not thought to be related to the American stock (see » English Longhorn).
	www.rarebreeds.co.nz /texas.html (226 words)

	Texas Longhorn Country:: History of Longhorn cattle and places to see a longhorn herd.
		Texas was the original home of ranching and became the major blending pot for the evolution of the history-making Texas Longhorn breed of cattle.
		Most of the cattle for the first stocking of the central and northern plains came from these herds.
		The cattle conditions at the end of the Civil War are also given credit for the beginning of cattle rustling.
	www.dfwnetmall.com /e-mag/longhorn.htm (1124 words)

	DWD Longhorns - Texas Longhorn Cattle with Twisty Horn Genetics
		Texas Longhorn cattle are small- to medium-framed beef animals that mature early and have no difficulty calving.
		Longhorn cows are fearsome protectors of their young, ensuring their survival even in remote, predator-infested wilderness.
		Texas Longhorn cattle were driven north on several cattle trails where they became the seed stock for the cattle industry throughout the Great Plains and beyond.
	www.dwdlonghorns.com (475 words)

	Mammals » Cattle » Texas Longhorn Main Page
		The Texas Longhorn was the cornerstone of American cowboy culture and is once again regaining popularity in the modern demand for new genetic material that can be used to improve domestic cattle.
		Cattle ranchers populated the empty plains and the northern part of America with Texas Longhorns, breeding them in earnest and bringing the breed to the forefront of the beef industry.
		Texas Longhorn Cattle are useful in crossbreeding and may be served to heifers on their first breeding.
	www.centralpets.com /animals/mammals/cattle/cow5328.html (644 words)

	Why Longhorn? LeanAndTender Longhorn lean grass fed beef – natural beef
		Longhorn cattle are "naturally lean" (no fat to cut off).
		The American Longhorns had to fend for themselves on the open range and "survival of the fittest" was nature's way.
		Longhorn cattle are lean by their nature, and we do not send them to a feedlot or force feed them grain.
	www.leanandtender.com /why_longhorn (472 words)

	Longhorn cattle
		Beef ranches in West Marin are known for their Herefords and Angus, but another type of cattle - the Texas Longhorn - has been introduced to ranches near Nicasio and Soulajule reservoirs in the last three years.
		Longhorn calves are born "about the size of a jackrabbit," and that eases a cow's first birth, the veterinarian said.
		He contrasted longhorns to the Holstein dairy cattle that were grazing on his ranch when he first bought it in 1993.
	www.ptreyeslight.com /stories/nov27/longhorn.html (937 words)

	Bar L Cattle Company - About Texas Longhorns
		Texas Longhorn cattle have a presence about them that is hard to convey until you have seen them in your very own pasture.
		Survival of the fittest contributed to the Texas Longhorn’s genetic resistance to diseases and parasites and their hardiness to tolerate extreme heat, drought, freezes and other weather conditions that other breeds cannot tolerate.
		The gentleness of these cattle can be observed at these dozens of shows as children as young as six or seven years old lead Texas Longhorn cattle into the show ring with a halter and lead rope.
	www.barlcattle.com /about_texas_longhorns.htm (688 words)

	Cattle Drives
		A typical trail driving outfit consisted of a boss, who might or might not be the owner; from 10 to 15 hands, each of whom had a string of from 5 to 10 horses; a horse wrangler (remudero), who drove and herded the cow horses; and a cook, who drove the chuck wagon.
		A narrative of one of the longest cattle drives in history can be found in "The Log of a Cowboy" written in 1903 by Andy Adams, a writer who spent 10 years in Texas and eight of those in trail driving.
		"A herd of 1000 she cattle, three and four years of age, and 2000 four and five year old beeves" were gathered to fill a million pound beef contract set for delivery on Blackfoot Indian Reservation in the northwest corner of Montana, nearly 3000 miles distant.
	www.co.wilbarger.tx.us /cattle.htm (1850 words)

	Longhorn Cattle Society - Welcome
		The Longhorn Cattle Society is a registered Charity in the U.K. and was founded in 1878 to promote and improve the breeding of the ancient and magnificent English Longhorn Cattle, and to maintain their purity.
		The Longhorn Cattle Society has now passed the VAT threshold and has to register for VAT to take immediate effect (December 2006).
		The Council of the Longhorn Cattle Society recognises the important role that showing has for the promotion and development of the Longhorn breed. Showing challenges the pedigree and encourages improvement of...
	www.longhorncattlesociety.com (316 words)

	Triple R Longhorns Texas Longhorn Cattle
		We are working with a blend of the Seven Families to produce cattle with size, conformation, color, gentleness and lots and lots of horn.
		Peg and I love the cattle and spring is the best time of year when the new calves are hitting the ground.
		We hope you enjoy our cattle and web site and we hope to see you down the road.
	www.rrrlonghorns.com /index.html (186 words)

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		Being located on the old Chisolm Trail, we decided that it was only fitting that we should raise Texas Longhorn cattle.
		Cattle and lean longhorn beef are for sale at all times.
		Longhorns are beautiful animals and everyone with an acreage should consider having a couple.
	www.sblonghorns.com (193 words)

	Texas Ranch Life - Longhorn Cattle Drive
		As a part of the Bellville Heritage Gathering, Texas Ranch Life will make 9-mile cattle drive from its Lonesome Pine Ranch pasture to Bellville, Texas, with the intention of penning the herd at pens located at the Austin County Fairgrounds in Bellville on May 6, 2006.
		On May 5, 2006 there will be a cattle camp gathering at Texas Ranch Life at the chuckwagon with steak dinner and a band and dancing.
		This cattle drive through Bellville is reminiscent and authentic of the way local ranchers and stock raisers trailed cattle from their outlying pastures to Bellville.
	www.texasranchlife.com /cattledrive.html (268 words)

	CATTLE :
		Our Longhorn cattle of today bear a striking resemblance to them with their wide horns and attractive line back markings and brindle colour.
		Another ancient breed the Highland is one of the hardiest breeds of cattle in the world, able to survive the cold and wet winters of the Scottish Highlands and Islands where they are not rare.
		The breed was developed in the Eastern Counties of England from cattle brought into this country by Viking settlers, and they were originally used as drauht oxen and to produce milk, meat and laether.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/bounty/170/cattle.html (1681 words)

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