North American wild cattle were called bison. :’)
Aurochs were the ancestors to domesticated cattle (at least in part), and the Texas longhorns are just a breed where that atavistic characteristic was brought out.
......the Texas longhorns are just a breed where that atavistic characteristic was brought out ......
I have been reading about Texas. One of the reasons for coming was the free cattle. Apparently even the earliest Franciscan monks around San Antonio captured the wild longhorns. The Tennesseeans and Kaintucks did the same elsewhere
That is, the cattle apparently preceded the people. I know about the Bison but wonder about where the long horns came from. You would have me believe that they are European in origin and wandered up from Mexico where the old characteristics were selected to allow them to live wild.
That is logical