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garage sale was held, and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise donated. Spontaneous donors, young and old, came forward, the youngest being Trip Gollihar, who was fve years old at the time. Trip donated his savings in pennies to the cause. Later that week, both sets of stolen horns mysteriously turned up on Trip’s back porch, the thief apparently having a change of heart. The

Abilene Reporter News and other media kept the “Save Our Cow” campaign in front of the public for the next several months, and by September enough money was raised to commission our own Herd ; this time the cows would be aluminum rather than wood, so it would be weather resistant and more diffcult to vandalize.

Approximately one year from

the date of the original installation, Saturday, April 25 th 1987, the cows returned, leading a parade down South 14th Street organized to herald their return. The Herd was given a permanent home by the fre station where they now greet all who exit the Winters Freeway at South 14 th Street.

The next two decades of the sculpture exhibition brought a wide

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