Outdoor
Messages from the Past
By contributing writer Jerry Williams
On or about January 4th, 2010 a King County ranch foreman shot 51 buffalo that had strayed off the QB Pasture Reserve. A neighboring ranch foreman was charged with a thirddegree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000. http://www.gosanangelo. com/news/2010/mar/13/man-to-betried-
tuesday-for-killing-51-buffalo/. The Texas Bison Association was shocked and campaigned for new legislation. Now for first time bison are protected by the Texas Estray Law authored by Sen. Craig Estes of Wichita Falls. Gov. Rick Perry signed the bill into law on May 10, 2013.
Bison once numbered in the tens of millions and were an integral part of the sustenance of the American Indian and later businessmen profited from the buffalo in their commercial enterprises. “The four main herds of buffalo in Texas migrated from northern Montana and entered Texas between the 99th and 101st meridians on established trails,” according to https://www.tshaonline. org/handbook/online/articles/tcb02. This location translates to points on County Rd B northwest of Perryton, TX, (101st meridian) and points along County Rd 126 E north east of Vernon, TX (99th meridian).
In the late 1870s and early 1880s Henrietta, TX, was a buffalo hunting center. The Old Buffalo Road ran from Cottle and Foard counties to Henrietta where Sam Satterfield had a buffalo hide storage yard that was a half mile long.
To read more pick up the March 2014 issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch.
By Tony Dean, [email protected]
If moisture is adequate, there are several winter annual grasses that dominate the landscape during early spring in Texas. One of the most common is Rescuegrass.
This winter annual is native to South America but grows over much of the United States and can be found in all ecoregions of Texas. Rescuegrass is easily recognized by its flat seed head.
Numerous seed heads produce seed that is transported by animals and can quickly spread to other areas.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Norman Winter | Horticulturist, Author, Speaker
The National Garden Bureau has designated 2024 as the ‘Year of the Angelonia’ and I am in full celebration mode. As I was preparing for my contribution to the celebration, I was, however, sent into taxonomic trauma.
For the last 26 years of deep love for the Angelonia, or summer snapdragon, I have told everyone via newspaper, radio and television that they were in the Scrophulariaceae family. Since most gardeners don’t like those words, I modified or simplified the snapdragon family, but somebody has tinkered with green industry happiness and moved Angelonia to the Plantaginaceae or plantain family. I immediately reached out to my friend Dr. Allen Ownings, Horticulture Professor Emeritus with the Louisiana State University AgCenter. I said, “Did you know this, or better yet, did you do it?” He said, as I expected, that the Taxonomist group had done it. This reminded me that someone once said taxonomists have to eat, too.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Jelly Cocanougher
Brazen rumbles cut through the daylight stillness. Enamored by the grandiose symphony of the firmament, tinged in anticipation from where the light will snap next.
The clouds dance in the sky as a love letter to the electrically-charged synergy of the ground and air. It moves unashamed, reckless, and bold. It is raw power that could command attention for any being, a reminder that we are attuned to the primal opus of flora and fauna. The spirit of the prairie was awakened, the hands of a cowboy rests at the heart of it all, a symphony in combination.
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Sam Satterfield
January 31, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Is this Sam Houston Satterfield of Henrietta, Texas? He owned and ran a drug store in Henrietta until it closed due to depression in 1929? He is burried in Hope Cemetary in Henrietta and is my father.
—Sam Satterfield, Jr. (83)
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