LA Times: The cowboys rose well before dawn, stars still high in the West Texas sky. They strapped on spurs and leather chaps and climbed into their saddles for one last roundup.
They didn't have to do much to rustle the cattle from the dusty flats about 220 miles west of Dallas. Hundreds of hungry black Angus and Herefords, tired of foraging for scarce, drought-dry grass, came running - drawn by the hope of feed. The cowboys herded the youngest, thinnest and weakest animals into a separate pen, some with......
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Drought-dry Texas driving its cattle north
Posted by LA Times: Molly Hennessy-Fiske on October 8th, 2011
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