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...Santo Domingo on his second voyage. From there they were taken to Mexico. Half a century later Coronado, bound north in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drove 500 head across the Rio Grande for food along the way. Some escaped, and the famed longhorn found a home in Texas...
Bony, surefooted, able to withstand heat and live on prickly pear and little water, the longhorn was a perfect mate for the environment and multiplied on the wild ranges. By the time the Lone Star State won its independence, there were 80,000 longhorns in Texas, more critters than humans. Yet by 1920 the longhorn was almost extinct. It carried too much leg, flank and horn in proportion to edible beef, and cowmen simply could not afford to keep...
...also coy. But much bovine erudition has gone into it. Although the writing is tame and woolly, those at home in this overgrazed field will consider the book right up there at the point of the lowing herd of longhorn literature...
Purple Page. The brief and simple annals of the poor cowboy span the years between 1867 and 1885. There was a stringy breed of cattle down in Texas called the longhorn and a market for them in the North. The cowboy brought these facts together until he was defeated by the onrush of civilization and by cattle tick (which killed less hardy herds), by sheep (which competed with them) and by Methodism (which tamed the hard-drinking cowhands). At this point in the book, the apparatus of scholarship gets to work. The reader is told that a cowboy seldom fought...
...With a balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...