Show avin ay a filhe el h orm N D 7 IL XIT A X lk C 7 A V kv w n ggs R k 4 r D 01 D 13 8 ro IP 00 ita BOUT tour four years ngo ago there y n appeared in it a newspaper in san antonio texas in the heart of the cattle V country on an item headed tho file passing of the longhorn which read as follows ord the tex longhorn to I 1 no more today a ay this ihli noble creaturo ore atura aturo han ha taken its it place along with the tb other outstanding of the romantic pioneer days 0 of sarly arly texas tho foundation and basis baals of th tb e states greatest industries the buol nucleus u s ot of ft 2 tb herds upon ft a thousand hills in rone gone by and the he oae onetime one time pride of the range to Is today but a memory succeeded by a tat at lek IC tribe of and other breeds breads that graze the open rame what changes chances time can b gl A glance fiance into the past and the th drees d sees t the he march of events in a n ni an endina d ing panorama passing before th so es tho the day of the indian and the buffalo but falo I 1 ong long since passed into oblivion the advent ot 0 the longhorn lon thorn steer the birth ot the th great reat cattle industry Indu itry and then th the passing of a creature that brought the great west through the days of 0 hardship whether or not there here was any direct connection between tills valedictory and the action taken recently by the texas folklore society la Is unknown but the fact act remains that it was a statement of what wua was in the minds of many texans texana the fact that it a picturesque animal and one which had played an important role in the history of the lone star state was in danger of extinction so the texas folklore society at its meeting this year passed a resolution recommending that the legislature appropriate sufficient funds and provide adequate means to preserve in its purity for butare generations the texas longhorn breed the most historic b breed r eed of cattle the world has haa ever kno known wn 11 back of this resolution Is in the movement to save aare the long longhorn borin by collecting almany as many as aa possible of the survivors and placing them upon a wll protected preserve A start toward that already has been made the nucleus of a herd has recently been placed in the wichita national forest reserve by will 0 barnes a veteran cowman now connected with the forest service of the united states department part ment of agriculture so 80 it appears now that the texas longhorn la is to escape the extinction which once threatened the buffalo had not the american people been aroused to the donger danger just in time not long ago a newspaper dispatch stated that a herd of 2000 texas longhorns had been shipped from south texas to kansas but old timers who should be in a position to know declare that it Is doubtful if a tenth of that number of genuine longhorns long horos could be found if a census were taken nearly every wild west show or rodeo exhibition company has a few and there are a few running wild in various western states especially their native heath of texas dut but say may the old timers the true longhorn Is so scarce that it Is now a curiosity even to the cattlemen of texas and these are all that are left of the thousands that the texas plains once knew just where the longhorn originated lg is unknown tradition has it that they descended deac ended from the original herd of spanish cattle which stocked the ranch of hernando ernando II cortez conqueror of mexico on the isthmus of f tehuantepec nearly years ago they were a hardy rangy fleet tooted footed breed whose long dortu enabled them thein I 1 K av 15 P k 10 K 9 e 4 t k R V iwaki w k ME above typical longhorn from yale university press pageant of 0 america below longhorn Lon ghorm on tho the trail courtesy Court cy dwitt a co to make their way through the thick chaparral growth that covers much of their native home and because tit f the scanty grazing they were accustomed to range over a wide territory when tie the mexican ranch owners were driven out vt of the lower border of texas after ue iba texans teanna had won their independence in 1836 many thuan thousands da of these cattle roomed roamed the wilderness for a quarter of a century they were almost as wild us as deer when the re establishment of ranches in that region took place even isvan then they were never domesticated in the true sense of the word and when the civil war called nearly all of the able bodied men of the lone star state away to battlefields in other states and left the herds in charge of boys and old men the longhorns began to break away from what tittle little civilization they their had known and run wild again the rounding up of these wild hilti herds and driving them overland to kansas shipping towns in the late six tie ties marked the beginning of the epic cattle trade and laid the foundations of texas prosperity it to Is interesting to note that texas oot not only la Is making an effort to save the longhorn from extinction but that it is in preserving its memory in another way without branding successful operation of the cattle business would have been impossible for mexican cattle thieves th levesi and dishonest ranch owners would have got away with the herds in short order had bad it not been for the stamp of em blazoned in bold characters on the bide of the animals so texas Is commemorating mem orating the longhorn and the brand he wore with the unique idea of branding garrison hall the tha new hat f mill malhon lon doll dollar ar classroom building at the university of texas with the symbols of texas gren greatest test industry more than cattle brands brandi aged at some time or other in that state were examined by U H W winkler university librarian who spent sli months at the task and from that number number 32 representative of some step in the progress of texas history were selected to be engraved upon the white stone walls of garrison hall no I 1 of the collection Is appropriately the Au ittin spanish brand of stephen P F austin the he father of texas the other thirty pictured above are as follows i 2 capt rich ard king 3 maj george W little field 4 S 8 M swenson 5 3 8 IL bur nett 0 6 sanches 7 ledro ebarbo 8 tone jose antonio navarro ft 0 jose antonto antonio de 10 la ia larza it lu ike T pryor 11 A it II Shan clerce Il erce 12 capitol land an syndicate IS 13 a 0 14 al ml cerad rien den 13 15 oliver loving and sons sona 10 bli MM R rabb 17 dillerd fant 18 john it IL blocker lo 10 allison anil and deweese Dew cese 20 joe outlier gunter 21 preston rose hose 22 charles goodnight 23 8 A maverick 24 annn martin antl and sons 25 george W saunders 20 D 11 snyder 27 J J myers 28 john lytle 29 mark withers wither 80 30 B E B bluett 31 W T dav goner oner 82 11 II L kokernot Kok erooL the full history of these brandi brand would fill volumes but bat here are aroma of the outstanding facts connected with some of the better known ones 5 8 B burnett whose brand of 0 the four sixes resulted from his him winning a largo large ranch in a poker game la in which he held four of a kind 0 9 jose antonio do de la ia barza the oldest brand was obtained from the spanish Colvern government ment by leonardo do da la ia garza june 23 1702 1762 11 A H M shanghai pierce who wha drove cattle from matagorda county on the gulf and whose steers steer were wen known from the rio grande to the canadian line as pierces cei sea lions 12 capitol land Syndi catti those rhose XIT brand was generally known as ten in texas their holdings covered ten counties and included throe three ma million lillon acres given in payment for the state capitol building at austin 13 0 0 slaughters lazy B R brand was on more than cattle A year in the trall trail driving period after the civil war 21 preston rose hose was the first man to fence land in texas and attempt to improve tile the longbord i breed 22 charles goodnight owner of the famous goodnight ranch lome of buffalo and anter in crossing buffalo and cattle to produce catalo 2 23 S A maverick Maer lck whose name tit applied to any entile cattle that bear no brand ile he bought a small herd la fit the but a negro e employed was so careless that he be had to sell tho few that remained from the hundreds stolen by rustlers 31 W T waggoner whose brand was used on horses and cattle in 1895 after lie he had bad in business with only cows 0 horses and a fifteen year old herd boy |