The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management is part of Texas A&M University in Kingsville, Texas. They offer courses for graduate students focusing on ranching careers including a Master of Science degree. Their vision is: “We are determined to educate leaders who will make a positive difference in ranching, and…
A farrier knows about horses feet. They are the ones who trim horse hooves and put on horseshoes. Most cowboys have some farrier skills but there are serious training programs for professionals. It might seem like a fairly simple set of skills but it can get quite complicated making corrections…
The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the later 19th century to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The trail stretched from southern Texas across the Red River, and on to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene, Kansas, where the cattle would…
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Virtually all of the pictures you see of old time cowboys are white men giving the false impression that African Americans were not among the men and women who settled the West. In fact, by the time the huge cattle drives of cowboy legend ended, at least 5,000 black men…
