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The Cow |
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| Techniques of livestock herding came to the
Americas from Spain. Vaqueros herded livestock, such as cows, goats, and
sheep, on horseback in Mexico beginning in the 1500s. Called “longhorns”
by settlers from the East, cattle adapted to the land of the southwest and
multiplied in large numbers. After the Civil War, it was estimated that
more than eight million longhorns were on the Texas range. Click here to view more animal images |  Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) An "outlaw" longhorn steer about to be released after being "stretched" for doctoring. OR Range, Arizona, 1909 Gelatin dry plate negative Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas LC.S6.174 |
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