SC Cowboys - Slsamz
Subject: SC Cowboys
From: Slsamz
Date: January 11, 2000

Some time ago I asked the list what they knew about SC cowboys.  Someone let 
me know about an article in the SC Historical Magazine.  I ordered it and 
wanted to let you know about it.  It is in Vol. 87 1986 and starts on page 
117.  The Author is John S. Otto.  It was very intersting to me and if you 
don't know about this part of the SC history you might want to read it.  
Essectially some of our SC ancesters introduced cattle ranching to the US and 
it gradually spread west.  There are no surnames mentioned, but there is a 
reference to Colleton County.  "Colleton County became the leading center of 
Carolinian cattle-ranching in the years between 1694 and 1715."  -- "By 1860, 
the descendants of Carolinian cattle-ranchers were found from southern Texas 
to southren Forida. Cattle-ranching, which had originated with colonial South 
Carolina, had diffused throughout the lower Saouth by the eve of the Civil 
War."  Thought some of you might be interested.  Sandy

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