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In 1845 Samuel A. Maverick, a lawyer and real estate man who I had settled at San Antonio in 1835 and had taken an active part in the revolution, sought to collect a debt that was owed him by a man at Decrow's Point on Matagorda Bay. The bill amounted to $1,200.00 and being without other means, the man paid the debt in cattle, transferring to Maverick four hundred head at $3.00 a head. He left them in charge of a Negro family and returned to San Antonio. In the meantime the branding of the calves had been neglected to such an extent that after seven years the herd still consisted of four hundred head. Three years later Maverick sold the entire herd for $6.00 a head.
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Photo shows “Three Circle,” said
to be the only living sacred bull in this country that
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