Customarily, herders and owners entered into contracts as to the length of service and wages. In one, often called the partido system, sheep owners hired individual herders to tend the animals. Two important systems of sheep ranching emerged. Nonetheless, mission Indians wove coarse blankets or other cloth from the wool, and ranchers in the Valley found a small market for wool south of the river. The chaurros were more important for mutton than for the small amount of coarse wool they provided. Most of the sheep were chaurros, a gaunt breed that weighed only sixty to eighty pounds. Solís and others estimated that perhaps 90,000 sheep grazed on haciendas in the Rio Grande valley from near the site of present McAllen to near Laredo.
He noted 2,200 sheep in the La Bahía area. In that year Gaspar José de Solís estimated the number of sheep and goats at 17,000 around San Antonio. Sheep ranching spread to others areas of Spanish Texas and by 1767 had become an important industry at La Bahía and in the Rio Grande valley as well as at San Antonio. Although most sheep raising in early Texas was associated with mission stations near San Antonio, where there were 9,000 sheep in 1727, and La Bahía, civilian ranchers included sheep and goats with cattle in their pastures, and a few sheep grazed near the East Texas missions. The next year flocks appeared in the San Antonio region, and during the 1720s sheep ranching spread down the San Antonio River.
Although the missionary work there was soon abandoned, Spaniards returned in 1716 under the leadership of Domingo Ramón, bringing with them a band of 1,000 sheep and goats. As early as 1691 Domingo Terán de los Ríos brought to New Spain's recently established East Texas mission field some 1,700 sheep and goats. Texas today leads the nation in sheep production. In terms of numbers of sheep it reached a peak in the mid-twentieth century. It declined somewhat at the end of the century after authorities ordered the missions secularized, but in the mid-nineteenth century, after Anglo-Americans came to dominate the industry, it increased again. It expanded during the eighteenth century with the continued establishment of mission ranches, especially near San Antonio and La Bahía. Yours truly,William Cain / and check out my Facebook page to see what goes through an artist mind.Sheep ranching in Texas began when the first Spanish explorers and missionaries came to the region. Oh by the way did I mention I paint with my fingers. I hope you get both a sense of (deja vu) and joyfulness when viewing my artwork and would like to add my art to your environment and collection. I have chosen to leave my subjects featureless so as to allow the viewer to project their own imagination onto the rainbow of characters in my paintings. I tried to capture both a whimsical and yet a sensitive slice of life which is ageless.
The images that attract me are those, which are people in their daily chores, and surroundings. I always enjoyed the way people would react and sometimes interact with the photo shot as if they were posing themselves. I would often find myself on location in a rural setting modeling some well known designers clothes but placed among the working people of the environment. actor, illustrator and being lucky enough to travel to various locations in the world. Although I have had many influences for my art this series, which I call (THE VILLAGE LIFE/SLICE of LIFE SERIES) comes from the 15 years I spent as a fashion model, T.V. As an artist who has worked in various mediums and different fields of art, I have found that working with simple forms, shapes and the use of chiaroscuro (light and dark) style of painting has enabled me to capture the basic elements of life and the world I have lived in. I have hopes that our pleasant memories will follow our spirit/soul into the great beyond. I may get tired but I am never bored except by boring self indulgent humans. a soul from the Sixties who picked up the philosophy of Dualism, Occams razor, Zen ,The Spirit of Tao, The Teachings of The Buddha ,The Book of the Secrets(Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh),Plato and Aristotle, Sexual Astrology and a few other bits and pieces from my travels around this world and galaxies far away.
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