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No.TITLESOURCE
MEDIUM
01Music From Mato GrossoSmithsonian by Harry Tschopik, Jr.
Music
02The Crucial Crusade of an Amazon CowboyTCU Magazine by Kathryn Hopper
Article
03The Death of Chico MendesWashington Post by Miriam Parel
Article
04Murder in the RainforestVanity Fair by Alex Shoumatoff
Article
05KamaiuráIndigenous Peoples in Brazil
Web
06Hope RanchTEDx Alcatraz
Video
07The Texas Chainsaw StopperOutside Magazine by Stephanie Pearson
Article
08The Amazon’s Texas SaviourThe Economist
Article
09Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle 
ranching in the AmazonMongabay by Rhett Butler
Web
10Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Landby Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph
Book


The Crucial Crusade of an Amazon Cowboy
By Kathryn Hopper TCU MAGAZINE
FALL 2009
Century-old live oaks shelter the white clapboard Welder family ranch house and the fragrance of magnolias hangs in a breeze-less June morning. It’s barely 10 a.m. and already in the low 90s as a herd of Hereford-Brahman mix cattle idles in a nearby grove.

At first glance, life on the 131-year-old ranch in Refugio County seems little changed from earlier eras, but on this day the ranch is the site of an international exchange between ranchers and rancheiros — Brazilian cattle ranchers — who were invited to Texas by their Brazilian neighbor John Cain Carter ’93 RM and TCU’s Institute of Ranch Management for a week of on-campus lectures and tours of South Texas alumni ranching operations.
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