ranching

Ep. 154: When Lone Star Cowboys Took the Sport of Kings

Polo is called the sport of kings — but in America, it ran on Texas cow ponies. In this episode of Wise About Texas, host Ken Wise traces the interesting but often ignored history of Texas polo, beginning with cavalry drills in sixth-century B.C. Persia and ending on a ranch in Kendall County. The game…

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Ep. 134: The Fence Cutting Wars

Barbed wire revolutionized livestock fencing. What a great invention…or so it was thought. The real effect was the gradual elimination of the open range and the free grazing and watering of cattle. Cooperation was discouraged and now it would be every man for himself. This didn’t sit well with the “free grazers” and the war…

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