ames Robinson established the brand in 1895 at Nursery, Texas.  He farmed and raised cattle and passed his knowledge of agriculture to his son-in-law Bill Gullett. Bill and his brother-in-law Glen Davies, a prominent Houston CPA, raised Hereford cattle and used the D-G brand until the 1960's.

In 1964, Gene and Wilma Gullett Buffaloe bought out the heirs to the Robinson Estate and reinstated the JR brand in the herd.  Gene had a keen sense of cattle confirmation that was developed in Palacios, Texas under the supervision of his father, Ed Buffaloe and his uncle, Frank Buffaloe.  Frank Buffaloe and J. W. Sartwell, founder of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, were partners in the Brahman cattle business. Frank and J.W. imported some of the first Brahman cattle into the United States.

Gene acquired the Robinson cattle.  He knew the value of crossing the English Breeds with Brahmans which were heavily muscled, heat, disease and insect resistant.  He raised cattle that exhibited hybrid growth as demonstrated by high weaning weights.  Gene produced thick, heavily muscled, "Easy Keeper" cows.  In the late seventies, Gene introduced the first Red Brangus Bulls into the herd.  Those bulls were purchased from Franklin Flato at Berclair, Texas.

In 1991, Gene Buffaloe passed away and Wilma Gullett Buffaloe handed the ranching over to her son, Bruce.  Wilma and Bruce added purebred, registered Red Brangus cows and began to develop a purebred, registered Red Brangus herd.  Wilma and Bruce immediately recognized that purebred 3/8 x 5/8 Red Brangus Cattle were the cattle of choice and the premium animals to breed.

In 1995, Bruce married Nancy Wiegand Buffaloe, Buffaloe Cattle Company and Red Brangus' best saleswoman.  Nancy developed a "Good Sense" method of investing in Red Brangus by buying semen interest in bulls and high grade heifers.  She established the  brand to mark her cattle.  

In 2008, Wilma Buffaloe passed away. At the time of her death at age 85, Wilma was the oldest, active Red Brangus Breeder. She bought her last registered heifer in the CX Advantage Sale in October 2007 and she actively made decisions about which bulls to buy to improve our herd. Her last two purchases were CX Home Run 135P and Sureway's Rocky Street 227N. These bulls are held in partnership with Cox Excalibur and Triangle Farms respectively. 

In 2009, Vincent Price from Cameron, Texas joined the Buffaloes when he married Tracee. Vince and Tracee are now living in Victoria and manage the herd on a daily basis. 

We are proud of our heritage in the breeding of Brahman influenced cattle.  We have used the best bulls and top females in Red Brangus to develop our herd and will pass this legacy to our daughters Tracee and Lissa. 

Our 3/8 x 5/8 Red Brangus Cattle are derived from the top purebred Red Brangus bulls such as BCC Mr. Gene 306R, Chief Cardinal 847/G, Rocky Street 227N, Home Run 235P, Predominant 706/0, Sensation 872, Topline, Oak Creek's 27D the Forage Champion, Cardinal 107D, Powerman 307/H and Mr. High Star X19/E. 

We have recently purchased an interest in a potential herd sire from Stacey and Kelly Costello at BKC Ranch. The bull is named BKC HOT SHOT 10W and was crowned the Bull Calf Champion at every show in which he was entered in 2009. BKC HOT SHOT 10W is a ROCKY STREET grandson.

In addition, Chief Cardinal has passed on but he left behind a great herd sire prospect in his last calf crop, The Bull is BCC MACHO 124W. Watch for him in the 2010 shows. He is something special. For a preview of MACHO look in our classifieds under bulls and 124W. 

Buffaloe Cattle Company offers over 115 Years of quality and innovative cattle breeding.  Come by our ranch at Nursery, Texas; just outside of Victoria, and we'll be happy to show you our outstanding cattle. 

             We Look Forward To Seeing You Soon!

Early Texas History and More Buffaloe Family History

This Family History was told to Bruce Buffaloe by his Uncle Ken Buffaloe on March 2, 2010 while Bruce traveled to Victoria to pick up the cattle that he was showing in Houston at the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo.

Buffalo Hump was Ken Buffaloe’s great, great grandfather. That made Buffalo Hump, Bruce’s great, great, great grandfather. The story was told by Rufus Buffaloe to Ken in about 1940 when Ken was approximately 10 years old. Ken said that he would come see Rufus on Saturday afternoons and fish on the pier at Palacios, Texas. Ken always liked to come see his grandfather because he always gave him a quarter. The quarter was enough to get Ken into the movie, buy a Coke, popcorn and some candy. Ken liked to hear Rufus' stories because they were about early Texas and Indians. Ken’s brothers and sisters never paid much attention to the stories. He said his brothers were more interested in girls. They were several years older than Ken.

Rufus Buffaloe relayed the Buffaloe Family History as follows:

Buffalo Hump was Rufus' grandfather. He never knew or met Buffalo Hump. Buffalo Hump was a Comanche Indian who was a chief of a tribe that lived in Oklahoma and Texas. When Buffalo Hump was an older man, the US Army attacked Buffalo Humps’ village and killed his family and most of the women and children. Buffalo Hump escaped by hiding between some big rocks in a stream nearby. Buffalo Hump hated the white man after that and tried to kill as many as he could thereafter. He was extremely mean.

In about 1840, when Buffalo Hump was young, Buffalo Hump and a large war party came down from Oklahoma and raided the central and south Texas area. Their raiding party went through Victoria and they killed many settlers and stole their horses and cattle. They came down the coast and raided several Coastal towns. They had so much loot and stolen cattle and horses that they could not travel fast. The Republic of Texas Army gathered together forces and attacked Buffalo Hump and his braves and won a great victory over them. The Republic's Army killed many of the Indians. This raid is documented in many Texas history books.

Once Buffalo Hump was camped with some of his braves and in the night they heard noises. When daylight came, they crawled through the huisache bushes and found a rock cabin with a white man whipping a black man with a bullwhip. Buffalo Hump had never seen a bullwhip so he watched for a while and then they attacked the white man and killed him and also killed the black man. When they were about to enter the cabin a woman came out the door with a double barrel shotgun and shot and killed two of the Indians. Buffalo Hump killed the woman.

Buffalo Hump learned to use the bullwhip but it took a long time. When he was learning to use the whip, he pulled it on a backstroke and the end cut a gash in his forehead. He had a large scar on his head after that.

Buffalo Hump had a son named Buffalo Horn. When Buffalo Horn was about 15 years old, Buffalo Hump whipped him with the bullwhip and almost killed him. Buffalo Horn’s mother saved him from dying. As soon as Buffalo Horn could get away, he stole one of Buffalo Hump’s horses and rode toward west Texas. He lived off of the land and was about to starve to death. We was about 30 miles west of Fort Stockton when he came up on a two room, rock cabin. He fell off of his horse, due to weakness, and the family that lived in the cabin nursed him back to health. Their name was Lee.

Buffalo Horn lived with the Lees for about 17 years. The Lees made a living by raising cows and goats. Buffalo Horn worked for the Lees and was a hard worker. The Lees had one daughter and she was about Buffalo Horn's age. The daughter and Buffalo Horn decided to get married. They were married at Fort Stockton and when they were married; his new wife gave him a Christian name. He was renamed Jim Buffaloe and the "e" was added to his name by his wife. Jim had no middle name.

Jim and his wife lived at the ranch until her parents died in about 1870. They moved to East Texas and had 3 children. Rufus, Ivan, who died young, and Sel. Jim never returned to west Texas. Rufus was raised in east Texas and decided to live in Palacios. He was married and his first wife died. His second wife was Mary Buffaloe. That ended the story that Rufus told and Ken and Ken told Bruce

I met Mary when I was very young. I just barely remember her.

Rufus had two sons, Ed and Frank. William Edward "Ed" Buffaloe was my grandfather. Ed, Frank, Rufus and Mary Buffaloe are buried in the cemetery at Palacios, Texas. There is a center road that goes into the cemetery and they are buried close to each other just north of the road and in the center of the cemetery. Frank’s son, Hugh, is also buried with them.