State steps into sheep wars

 

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1881, a Texas law provided for the appointment of state sheep inspectors and the quarantine of diseased sheep.
The measure was but one part of the saga of the sheep wars. Sheep ranching already had an extensive history in Texas. The first Spanish explorers and missionaries brought their flocks, and mission ranches near San Antonio and La Bahía expanded the industry during the eighteenth century. Continued