11-26-2010, 07:10 AM
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6th Generation Texan
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Devil's Backbone,RR 32,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Lone Star Classics #240,Candy Apple Red,Keith Craft 418w - 602 HP,584 TQ
Posts: 8,157
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In 1690, the first herd of cattle, only about 200 head, were driven northward from Mexico to a mission near the Sabine River-a land that would become known as Texas. The early missions and ranchers would not survive all of the elements. But the Texas Longhorn would.
By the time of the Civil War, nearly 300 years after setting foot in America, millions of Longhorns ranged between the mesquite-dotted sandy banks of the Rio Bravo to the sandbeds of the Sabine. Most of the Longhorns were unbranded, survivors of Indian raids, scattered by stampedes and weather, escaped from missions or abandoned after ranch failures.
The survivors of the Civil War returned home to Texas to find abandoned ranches, unplowed farm fields�and herds of wild cattle, which would soon become gold in their pockets. In the next quarter century, 10 million head were trailed North to fatten on lush Midwestern grasses or shipped directly by rail to the beef-hungry East.
Translating wild cattle into hard cash was an epic struggle between man, beast and the elements�from this grew the romantic legends of the Western Cowboy.
Longhorns, groomed by Mother Nature, carried the ideal characteristics of resistance�they were tremendous for long drives. They could go incredible distances without water, rustle their own food, fend for themselves, swim rivers, survive the desert sun and winter snow.
All of this and tasty too.
(Damn Aggies)
To give y'all an idea of just how sick Aggies are.....
Dr. Calvin Rickson, a scientist from Texas A&M University, has invented a
bra that keeps women's breasts from jiggling, bouncing up and down, and
prevents the nipples from pushing through the fabric when cold weather
sets in.
At a news conference announcing the invention, a large group of
men took Dr. Rickson outside afterwards and kicked the **** out of
him!
Damn Aggies !
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