the story of patrick dunn is an amazing one. he was born in corpus trustee. he started being a cowboy. he was working for different cattle ranches and he loved it. he knew it was his way of life. there was something that was invented and started taking off in the 1870s that revolutionized cattle ranching in the western united states. that was barbed wire. what you used to have is the open cattle ranches that you would have somebody who could get cattle have them go all over the place, and eventually take them to market. with barbed wire all the people who actually had land claims would put fences around their land. and that almost was the end of the open cattle range. but there is a few people who really, really loved cattle ranching and who didn't want to let them stop them. and they didn't have the huge ranches like we see in southern texas. and what they did is they came out to padre island. what made it ideal for cattle ranching was that you didn't need a fence for most of it. you had water on most of the sides of the eye lend. patrick dunn came out here

eventually the land ended up mostly in the hands of a man named patrick dunn.his was in the 1870 when that really got started. the story of patrick dunn is a pretty amazing one. he was born in corpus christi in 1858. in his teenage years he started being a cowboy. he was working for different cattle ranches, and he loved it. he new it was his way of life. but there was something that was invented and started really taking off in the 1870's that revolutionized cattle ranching in the western united states. that was barbed-wire. what you used to have is the open cattle ranches. you would actually have somebody who could get some cattle, have them wandering all over the place and eventually take them to market. but with barbed-wire, all the people who actually had land claims would put fences around their land. that almost was the end of the open cattle range. but, there were a few people who really, really loved cattle ranching and who didn't want to stop. they didn't have the huge ranches like we see in southern texas. what they did is they came out to padre isla