The year was 1932, the place was the old Democratic Convention Hall, and the event was the first Houston Fat Stock Show, as it was called then. The animals in that first competition included Brahman ...

Heifer No. 836/6 padded the sawdust on stage, her silvery-white dewlap swinging, her torso swollen in gestation. The auction booklet traced the Brahman's lineage out to three generations, starting ...

Hot, humid and harsh, South Texas isn’t the most nurturing environment for raising cattle. That was until Brahman cattle arrived. “They transformed beef cattle production in the South to a more ...