Where science and history meet at the horns
Cattlemen's Texas Longhorn Conservancy
Expand Your Horizons!
Our team of Geneticists are developing a DNA analysis that will identify cattle possessing the genetics of bovines that trace back to the original 1800’s Texas Longhorn.
Peruse our site for detailed information about the origin of the Texas Longhorn and its evolution into America’s first breed of cattle, helping you to understand its historic significance to the American west and its place in the future of our nation’s food security.
Your donation will help preserve the legacy of the Texas Longhorn for future generations. Join us and rally at the horn conserving the legend and heredity of the Texas Longhorn!
Call to Action
"Local breeds are at risk of being completely replaced or crossbred out of existence. Every week, we lose an average of two domestic animal breeds around the world. Thousands are endangered."
Jeannette Beranger
The Livestock Conservancy
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”
Genesis 1:24
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of earth.”
Henry Beston (1928) The Outermost House