Texas Longhorn

Roaming across the Texas ranges were millions of longhorn cattle whose ancestors arrived with Columbus on his second voyage to the new world in 1493. The Spanish brought them into Mexico and later across the Rio Grande into what is now Texas in the late 1600’s and early 1700’s. An estimated 10 million head of these cattle were driven north from this area. Today the descendants of the wild and tough Texas longhorn live in a small herd managed by the state of Texas and freely roam the park’s pastures.

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