Alice Texas and a leopard cur question

Mike, this won't be of much help if any...back in the early 1970's I rode with a friend of mine to go look at some farm equipment at some ranch somewhere around Karnes City, Texas or Kennedy, TX area...when we arrived the old cowboy comes out to greet us along with 2 dogs that looked somewhat like Australian Shepherds but looking closer I saw they were a different breed or strain of dogs...these dogs were big and sturdy...the forelegs were thick and muscular...the head on the female was of good size...but the male had a big head on him...very good looking dogs, well built and fairly long coated except for the heads and legs...I asked the man what they were and he said farm dogs or farm shepherds...I forgot the exact area and how to get there but I can see the dogs plainly in my minds eye...

I about read most of J. Richard McDuffie's writings as well and he was very knowledgeable with breeding strategies and dogs in general...I think his Nimrod dog had some of that shepherd look to him but his coat not quite as long...

It seems that as soon as the Leopard cur dropped the cur and added the Hound word instead is when so many leopard curs started to look more like they have been crossed with bluetick hound...