This brief and entertaining history of the Texas Longhorn details the development of the first distinct American breed of beef cattle.  The Spanish herds that had roamed Texas for generations, when mixed with English Longhorns brought by Anglo settlers in the early 1800s, yielded a rangy hybrid that could thrive in Texas’ climate and was ideally suited to ranchers’ aspirations.   Almost extinct by the turn of the century, the Texas Longhorn was preserved by the efforts of just a few people who recalled with fondness the days when the cattle had thundered on the trails.  Some U.S. Forest Service officials, several ranchers, and even a folkloristJ. Frank Dobiegathered the animals for breeding and successfully managed the small herds until they stabilized and began to increase.  The Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America was formed in 1964 to preserve and promote the breed, and a growing interest in improving health by eating leaner meat has spurred renewed interest in the lean Longhorn as more than just a nostalgic novelty.

The Texas Longhorn, relic of the past, asset for the future (Essays on the American West)

Engineering & Transportation

Worcester

Engineering

Texas A&M University Press

1684. 1884. Celebration of the two Hundredth Anniversary of the Naming of Worcester October 14 and

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

Hoar, George Frisbie

History

BiblioLife

Memorial Observances of George Frisbie Hoar

Laws and Ordinances, Together with the ACT to Incorporate the Town of Worcester, and Other Special Acts of the Legislature Relating to the Town and City

Massachusetts

Nabu Press

1684. 1884: Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Naming of Worcester, October 14 and 15, 1884

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