The Jim W. Keeland Collection, no. 11 - Pierce Ranch Cattle Drive, Part I

Duration: 0:06:55

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This footage captures scenes from a cattle drive on the historic Pierce Ranch in Wharton County. Cowboys herd cattle on horseback, take a break by a windmill, and eat a dinner of barbecue and biscuits off the back of a covered wagon. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects.