When did Americans First Eat Beef?

Beef seems so American, but it was actually an import. Spaniards brought the first cattle to the United States in the sixteenth century.

Originally, the settlers regarded them as beasts of burden, but the Indians found them delicious. The Indians, in fact, were the first cattle herders, and they were the ones who moved the cattle across the Mississippi River to the grasslands of the plains.

What type of beef are we talking about here anyway!