Artist Jay Mathesan painted this mural telling League City's special connection to saving the famous Longhorn Cattle breed from extinction. The mural is painted on a utility cabinet in League Park.

FUN FACT: Texas Longhorns are here today because of Butler Ranch in League City. The iconic longhorn almost went extinct in the early 1900s. In the 1930s, Milby Butler noticed that the pure Texas longhorns were a dying breed. In an effort to preserve the breed, he worked to perfect their corkscrew-shaped horns, and red and white color patterning, referred to as "Butler color," through breeding efforts. Milby was obsessed with their horns—the longer the better. He would carefully select his cows and match them with the bull that he thought would produce a cow or bull with long, corkscrew-shaped horns. Exquisite longhorn Butler cattle could be seen roaming his property and the Butler Texas Longhorn was a type of Longhorn all its own.

Unlike his father, GW, Milby almost never sold his longhorns. He believed they were like silver dollars, that they were on the way out and needed to be preserved. After Milby's death in 1971, other ranchers continued the Butler cattle bloodline. Now, most of the longhorn cattle in Texas can trace some of their roots to the Butler bloodline.