Hey birdy! Still no computer, but I got an iPhone for Christmas!!!
Concerning cattle, the trade was extensive between the Spanish and French in colonial Louisiana, albeit illegal, from the 1720's on. Especially when Louis Juchreau de St. Denis ran things in Natchitoches. Only 15 miles from the colonial capital of TexAs at Presidio Los Adaes.
St. Denis' "royal corral" where all cattle and horses were gathered for shipment down the Red River was a natural depression of land now located on the southern end of the campus of Norhwestern State Univ. there in present Natchitoches. Trade between St. Denis and the Spanish continued until his death in 1745. He died owing the crown of France over 15,000 Francs, but was considered the richest man in all of Louisianne!!!!!! All assets tied up in land and cattle
The Spanish also drove vast herds of mission cattle to New Orleans and Pensacola to feed Spanish troops fighting the British during our revolution!!! Spanish troops under Gen. Bernado Galvan did capture both Baton Rouge and Pensacola from the Brits!!!! As a side note Gen. George Rogers Clark troops were supplied by the Spanish in St. Louis for their campaigns against Cascaskia and Vinncennes.
