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Headed North - Texas Longhorns By Frank McCarthy

Headed North - Texas Longhorns by Frank McCarthy

As the buffalo were killed off of the great open grasslands and the Indians were driven to reservations, cattlemen were never long in filling the vacuum. The cattle industry, as it flourished in the West, could trace its roots to Spanish stock brought over for beef by the conquistadors.

As the Spanish padres founded missions in Mexican Texas, they brought cattle to feed their Indian converts. Through neglect, abandonment and occasionally, Indian destruction of the missions, many cattle strayed. Wild herds spread in the brush-lands and across the Rio Grande plain. These evolved into the Texas longhorns which were the foundation for the early cattle kingdoms.

After the Civil War, plentiful beef was worth next to nothing in Texas although demand was strong in the East and the North. Daring cattle-poor stock-men drove a quarter of a million head to Missouri in the spring and summer of 1866, searching for a market. These cattle are being brought to the mining towns of Montana for sale and consumption.

Headed North by Frank McCarthy is available for sale as a signed and numbered limited edition print with a 16 x 29-1/2 image size priced at $___ unframed.

Order yours today. All artwork is professionally boxed and insured and guaranteed to arrive in mint condition. All of the prints have been hand signed and numbered by Western Artist Frank McCarthy.

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