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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The origin of Texas Longhorn


As written in Jared Diamond's book (right, yet another Jewish) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, originally, native Americans do not farm big mammals except the spitting[1] alpaca (and/or llama, whatever). No doubt these Texas Longhorns are not native at all. So, what are they? They are Hispanic.

No, they don't speak Spanish. But originally, they were brought to Santa Domingo by, by THE Columbus, the Spanish, in 1493. And within the next 2 to 3 centuries their descendents were grazing (living) in Mexico and Texas. With all the battles between humans, these cattles were abandoned and were on their own. (Talking about the only animals that fight each other when there are plenty of foods.) After Civil War, people came to Texas and find those wild cattles, as many as 10 million heads. The ranger said to me, "think about how much beef steak are there..." You would've already seen the dollar sign if you business blood. (Well, at that time, it's silver coin.) Bingo, people translated these cattles North, all the way from places like Ft Worth into Kansas where there was railroad to ship them to the East. And this is where the name "Cowboy" originated.

[1] This is a common knowledge if you read Tintin to your child.

Quiz: Has Tintin been to Cambodia? How about Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days?

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