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‘The kid’ turns out to be a lady cowhand
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News Staff, on March 4, 2020
‘The kid’ turns out to be a lady cowhand

Pushing cantankerous cattle up the trail was no easy undertaking under the best of circumstances, but the drive Samuel Dunn Houston made in 1888 beat anything he’d ever experienced. Originally from San Antonio, Houston made his first cattle drive in 1876 and by 1886, knew the business well enough

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