These days, longhorns are raised as Texas icons. "They just kind of keep getting bigger all the time," Dube said. In October 2014, a longhorn earned the Guinness World Record for longest horn spread on a steer with a measurement of nearly 10 feet. These days, seven feet is merely impressive, not at all the upper limit. Longhorn cattle, in Texas bigger-is-better fashion, are being bred for longer horns. Seven feet? Wrong, he said: That is not the biggest spread a longhorn can have. But he raised "old-fashioned longhorn cattle for color and romance." Ted Rozumalski Show More Show LessĪs Bob Dube dropped off his Texas longhorn at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, he noticed the educational sign near its stall and proclaimed it incorrect. Marks said that he raised other kinds of cattle to make money. Ted Rozumalski Show More Show Less 7 of7 E.H. Spartan endurance and a fierce nobility," J. The breed "possessed an adamantine strength, an aboriginal vitality, a Cecil Thomson Show More Show Less 6 of7 In this 1966 photo, Marks throws out hay for for his Longhorns. Marks built Texas'īiggest privately owned herd. Brett Coomer Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of7 AOther ranchers abandoned the breed in the 1920s, favoring beefierĮnglish breeds of cattle. 1 of7 Bob Dube, of Round Top, Texas, measures the horns of his"ABrett Coomer Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of7 Nathaniel Faske, left, and Bob Dube get ready to show a young longhorn bull.
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