On the Original Speckle park cattle site, there is an account written by Bill Lamont about where the early cows came from.
http://www.speckleparkoriginal.com/
he says:
We had worked up to about thirteen head of Speckle Parks after about thirteen years of trying. I went out to the pasture one time and on the way I discovered three dead, good marked cows on the road. Another farmer had rented some crop land fairly close to our pasture and had been combining wheat in the dark; of course when he pulled the combine into the bin, the door boards had never been put in, so the wheat ran all over the ground. I hadn't even known that a few of our cows had been getting out as this was after we had moved down near Maidstone. That set us back a few years with our numbers, but we carried on. Later, Mary wrote me to come by if I had room for any more cattle. They had run Dave Lindsay's Galloway bull in with a bunch of spotted cattle and Mary was able to sell me about six or seven heifers. So that is where the Galloway blood got into the herd. There were at least four of these, which made very good cows and I was proud of them.
HAB: I wanted to buy some Pericles semen one time, but never got to it because I found a White Galloway bull. Here is a picture of him. He and my Shorthorn bull started out together and both throw a lot of females, so I have a sort of collection of their daughters out of one family of Angus cows. I would like to find a Red Galloway bull to use on some of these to get red points. I'm looking for red semen on a low and thick, big barreled bull with a short head and lots of lung capacity, super sound on his legs and moving like a panther. Do you have anything like that? I actually saw a Galloway bull that moved like that one time.
And a picture of a red bull calf sired by my Shorthorn bull on a White Galloway/Angus cow that I sold as a bred heifer. That's when I stopped selling bred heifers.
And another of the the same white calf. I also have a really nice white heifer calf out of a White Galloway dam and that stout Wye-ish Angus bull I posted a while back.
I can't say enough good things about the Galloway/Angus cross. I feel guilty for crossing the Galloways, though, because I feel the Galloway blood should be kept pure.
So thanks for doing so much to keep it going.
I also have some blacks out of the same sire as the whites. The blacks are all much shaggier than the whites.