English: When the first settlers arrived on the watershed they found herds of wild cattle and horses, and until the late 1890s cattle comprised the majority of the animals in the riparian and prairie areas of the Armand Bayou watershed. William Vince received title to a league of land (4,428 acres) on the south side of Buffalo Bayou as one of Stephen F. Austin’s first 300 settlers. The cattle on the land were primarily wild cattle, descendants of the Spanish cattle and domesticated cattle that strayed from settlers. Armond Bayou Nature Center is the largest urban wilderness preserve in the United States.