The Jim W. Keeland Collection, no. 13 - Pierce Ranch Cattle Drive, Part III

Duration: 0:05:13

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This footage captures scenes of the cattle industry as a cattle drive comes to its end on the historic Pierce Ranch in Wharton County. Cowboys and their cow dogs herd cattle in and out of pens while the family looks on. Later, cattle are put into trailer trucks and driven away.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.