The Deadliest Enemy

Cows, crazed by thirst, make a mad break for a waterhole when they smell water in this oil by cowpuncher artist H.W. Caylor. Cowboys tried to avoid such stampedes by keeping the herd together, although these range hands were not succeeding at that task. A Texas drought is not just a dangerous relic of the past; in 2011, all over the country’s largest beef-producing state, thirsty cows died from lack of water and then too much water