Retired National Park Service naturalist, writer-photographer on natural history topics, and University of New Mexico Professor, William W. Dunmire, recently wrote a fascinating article in the Historical Society of New Mexico’s publication La Crónica de Nuevo México about the impact of the Spanish moving into the state. As soldiers and…
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One of the fundamentals of raising cows is the balance between the number of cows in a given area versus the ability of the land to recover. You always want slightly fewer cows than the land can handle so it will have adequate time to reseed and regrow. Stocking rate…
From Hot Shot Video Productions: American History books are full of stories about the Wild West; from the Cattle Kingdom in Texas, up dusty trails to cow towns in Kansas and Missouri, and on to railways heading east, cattle crossed our great nation and greatly influenced daily life in America,…
The King Ranch, located in south Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville, is one of the world’s largest and most famous ranches. The ranch itself is divided into four separate land areas (Laureles, Santa Gertrudis, Encino, Norias) of approximately 1,300 square miles. King had a life long motto “buy land,…
