As you browse through our different pages
we hope you will enjoy a little bit of Texas Ranching history. From Tom
Bob's 1865 Texas Stock Directory we have displayed a few of the ear marks
and brands of some of the early south Texas Ranching pioneers. In the days
when cattle ran free over vast unfenced territory the brands and marks
were the only means of proving ownership. The brands were unique to each
individual ranch and by registering them, that brand became the property
of the owner and no one else in the county could use it. The book was printed
at the San Antonio Texas Heralds office in 1865 and
it cost $2.00 to register your brand.
