User:KarenTHigh/Herman Meyer

Hermann Meyer was born in the Black Forest Region of Germany January 5, 1873. When he was about ten he herded his family's sheep, taking them into the hills where they could graze on the lush carpet of grass to be found there. Around midnight he would bring them back home. At the age of twelve he was hired out to herd cattle, which was what all the boys did at that time.

There was always a lot of competition among the cow herders and whenever two cattle herds met, the herders would fight the cattle against each other. One day Herman and another herder egged two of the cattle on until they charged at each other.The two cattle fought until one of them was rammed in the side by the other's horns. The two herders pulled them apart, and Herman took the cow home, patched it up and didn't say a word of the incident until many years afterward.