Leon Metz: 'Big Die-off' wiped out many Texas cattlemen

Back during the early 1880s, much of West Texas, the state Panhandle and outlying areas extending all the way across the state, and much of New Mexico, began to be overcrowded as well as overstocked.

[Mass death]

The Texas Frontier was nothing but death during the 1800s. Mass slaughter of the wild Indian tribes, mass slaughter of the frontier farmers, mass slaughter of the buffalo, mass death of cattle. There is probalby more blood on the texas frontier than anyother place on earth.

[Cool Breeze]

A similar fate was going to happen to the buffalo at Ted Turner's Ranch north of Truth or Consequences, NM.
His bison herds kept migrating north, or trying to, so he moved to Montana.

Thanks for the story, Mr Metz.