CHAPTER 6
The war raged on in Europe for much longer than most had envisioned. With the 1st Cavalry now dismounted, and Fort Bliss not purchasing horses, the market for the stock at the KF ranch is limited to individuals, who’re buying horses for pleasure or to help work their farms. Killian and the Freeman family turned a significant portion of the ranch into grazing land and began raising steers. Their Longhorns were some of the finest in the region. Over the following months, Killian and the Freeman family were ever-present at the rodeos and livestock shows that thrived at the El Paso Country Coliseum.
When the war ended in 1945, and for a few years afterward, some of the cavalrymen, who had survived the war, returned to El Paso. They came to the KF ranch looking for, and to purchase
