Texas Longhorns are very strong and enduring, and they are excellent both on the beef market and show ring. They retain intelligence, ease of training and usefulness even in the old age. Texas Longhorns arrived in Texas in the fifteenth century with Christopher Columbus and Spanish Conquistadors. They throve until the turn of the century, when massed slaughter and trade set the breed on the decline. In 1964, the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association was established.