These tend to be on the large and rangy side, with long faces. They also tend to have longer horns, either with a Spanish twist or out and straight up. Colors ranged greatly. Colors and patterns include black, brown, brindle, red, dove, roan, color-sided, caped, spotted and speckled. Hickman and Ladnier/Lander cattle ranged very close to each other, and therefor were similar. In the 1960’s the stock law put and end to range cattle and the two strains were forces much closer together. The Hickman herd once numbered in the thousands. With the loss of range land and and the eventual death of the J.R. Hickman in the 1980’s, the herd dwindled down to less than 100. The efforts of two conservation breeders resulted in the saving, and eventual recovery of this strain. 
Hickman
