Everywhere a man looked around the town there were herds of Texas cattle.

This plains city of 300,000, which once boomed as a railhead for Texas cattle, runs these days on airplane production.

Texas cattle were immune to this disease; but the ticks that they left behind infected the local cattle.

McCoy opened the first railhead to large shipments of Texas cattle in 1867.

They also owned "Texas cattle without number."

They got the crazy notion that Texas cattle spread disease.

This was a feeler-a lead to the Comancheros who might have stolen Texas cattle to sell.

Then began the great exodus of Texas cattle.

In the towns, state houses, dance halls and saloons catered to the Texas cattle drive trade.

Some of these men included "several certified Texas cattle thieves".