Salado Museum and College Park (saladomuseum.org) is pleased to announce a special program telling the story of the historic Texas Longhorn and the legendary cattle trail drives of the 19th Century presented by educator and historian Frank Sharp and Scottish singer and folklorist Ed Miller on Sunday, September 20, at 2:00 pm in the Lucile A. Robertson Center.
The program will include an audio-video presentation, live music and song, and trail drive artifacts such as cowbells, branding irons, a cowhide, steer skull or other cowboy related items. The program is free and open to the public. Donations to support the museum and its programs are always appreciated.
“Sadly, the historic Texas Longhorn is being bred out of existence,” Sharp says. “Today these cattle are on the critically endangered list. Through our preservation efforts and educational programs, we strive to impact saving these iconic animals.”
Sharp will tell the history of the State of Texas Longhorn Herd as well as the major impact of Texas Longhorns during the great cattle trail drives. Miller will play and sing the old songs that cowboys sang while driving cattle along the Chisholm Trail (which passed through Salado).
Frank Sharp is the lead educator and historian for the Official State of Texas Longhorn Herd with more than 40 years’ experience as an educator, rancher, and nationally recognized authority on the history, preservation, and genetics of the historically correct Texas Longhorn.
Ed Miller is a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, who came to Texas as a young man and made Austin his home. He holds graduate degrees in Folklore and Geography from the University of Texas at Austin. He has led a series of folksong-based historical tours of Scotland and currently hosts the program, Across the Pond, at sunradio.com.
