White Ranch – TX. Great Ranches of the West

“Swimming cattle is a centuries-old practice, unique to the state’s oldest family ranch. It’s held over from the days when ranch founder and patriarch Taylor White drove cattle to New Orleans across four rivers by way of the Opelousas Trail. ‘The Mississippi had barges,’ Bill White tells me, prodding one of the cows forward, ‘but none of the other rivers did. The cattle swam.’” – Jim Keen, Great Ranches of the West Author & Photographer Please note that Read More …