Traveling between Haskell and Throckmorton on U.S. 380, one thought enters your mind: That bull is huge. He stands on the north side of the road with his head cocked a certain way, testing the air for a cow. But it's unlikely he'll find one, it's 22 feet to the tip of his horn and this bull is made out of solid steel. Joe Barrington made the longhorn for a local rancher. The sculpture sits on a crest about 12 miles west of here and can be seen for miles before you get to it. He calls it Bridle Bit Bull, named for the brand he put on in. As he walked around the sculpture of the bull picking up litter, Barrington wondered where the real livestock was. "I keep thinking I'll come out here and catch the cows standing in the shade of the bull," he said. There's plenty of evidence of their visits surrounding the bull, however. Cow pies ring the sculpture, but that doesn't count as evidence for any opinion they might have reached while chewing their cud and contemplating the oversized steel cousin before them. A friend of his father's, someone he hardly knew, called him one night to tell him about it. "He said, 'I just wanted to tell you I was driving along from Haskell to Throckmorton and there was that bull. I just pulled over and cried,'" Barrington recalled. It made such an impact, the man got his wife and brought her out to see it, too. "I just thought that was pretty neat that he called," said Barrington with a chuckle.
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