A History of Emulous Line Cattle
Copied with permission from Brad James of Touchstone Angus Emulous of Sangamon The recorded Emulous story starts in 1934 at Pleasant Plains, Illinois. It was a drouth and depression year. Water, feed, and money were scarce. Carlton Corbin, Charles Bates, and Lee Leachman (then with Bates) were once in Indiana looking at cows, and on their return trip, they stopped to view the herd of J. Garrett Tolan, Pleasant Plains, Ill., before a sale. As we drove in that morning,…