The King Ranch
The King Ranch, 825,000 acres right here in the great state of Texas! The King Ranch started as a small cow camp in 1853, no one knew how big it would soon become in later years. Richard King started the small camp with 15,500 acres, the ranch is now 825,000 acres full of some of the finest cattle and horses in the world. Each year more than 35,000 people go to Kingsville, Texas to visit the ranch.(Hollandsworth)
Richard King in his earlier years was a steamboat captain traveling the Rio Grande. A couple of years later he bought 15,500 acres in 1853 and started a small cow camp. Soon after he married Henrietta King, they lived in a hut so small that she had to hang her pots and pans on the outside! During the Civil War Richard kept buying land kind of secretly. He kept taking large groups of his cattle to large sales in Kansas. As his ranch grew he built him and his wife a five room Prairie House. Soon after the Prairie House he built another house, this time a Victorian style house that was three stories and was the only residence for miles. Richard Kind died in 1885 at the age of 60. When he died he was named the greatest cattle baron, with over 40,000 cattle on about 500,000 acres! He left everything he owned to his wife. Two times a year Henrietta would ride around the
Bob played a very huge role in making the ranch what it is today, Bob and his cowboys invented the cattle prod. However one of the greatest accomplishment they had was that they made the Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle. They also bred the first registered American Quarter horse. Bob took up training racing horses. In 1946 the King Ranch stallion who went by Assault won the Triple Crown. Bob died in 1974 there were over a thousand people that came to his funeral. The funeral was held in the main house and in the front lawn.
Berry came to Florida for the first time at the age of 17 or 18 when his family moved to Hillsborough County in 1851. They settled on the Alafia River, twenty-two miles east of Tampa. That was where Berry discovered and established himself in the cattle business. As noted by Spessard Stone, “On April 19, 1852 he registered his mark and brand: crop and split in one ear, upper square in the other, brand A.” Berry became one of the most successful cattlemen in Florida and continued to work with cattle for the rest of his life.
King’s stowaway status soon came to an end, and he was employed as a crewmember on steamboats. Captains taught him to navigate the boats on rivers in Florida and Alabama, and his acute sense of learning gave way to him becoming a captain (KING RANCH). Capt. King plied the waters of Alabama until 1842. In that year he served aboard boa...
When Stephen F. Austin brought the “Old 300” to Texas, they got about 4,338 acres for grazing, and 177 acres for farmland and labor. This is where the first slave-based cotton plantation came into being. The Texas’ farms were starting to be a commercial business. Small family farms were becoming more frequent, and the livestock business became popular, all between 1836 and the Civil War in 1861. Cotton production generated most of the state’s agriculture production and sales. 58,000 bales were produced in 1850, but in 1860, there were 431,000! The number of slaves grew to more than triple as well, from about 58,200 to about 182,500. The whole population of Texas tripled too. It was kind of like a ‘Texas Cotton Rush’!
Austin first settled at the mouth of the Brazos River in December 1821. Stephen F. Austin came to Brazoria County for the land and business opportunities. Stephen F. Austin also brought a colonist of 300 families, where each family received approximately 1200 acres at twelve cents an acre. The 300 families that came to settle in the Austin colony are now known as the “Old Three Hundred” in Texas history today. (……) Stephen F. Austin was known as a “pioneer leader in the movement to colonize Texas” (Awbrey and Dooley 263). The original gravesite of Stephen F. Austin is in a church cemetery located in the town of Jones Creek. The cemetery is located on the “Peach Point Plantation” (Awbrey and Dooley 263). Austin's remains were taken to the state capital in Austin at a later date. Jones Creek is located in “Southwestern Brazoria County along Highway 36”. (……..) It is located close to Bryan Beach, Quintana Beach, and Surfside Beach. There are also several areas to go shopping in the nearby cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Brazoria. (……..) (internet site of villageofjonescreektexas.com) Surfside Beach is “a quaint little town on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico”. (gulfscapes magazine) It has been voted as the number one beach community in Texas. Surfside beach is known as a nice place to take your family with fantastic fishing and little traffic with the nearby
Professional rodeo is one of the more popular equine competitions.The beginnings of rodeo can be traced back to the ranches of the early 1700’s, when the Spanish ruled the West. The Spanish cattlemen on these early ranches had duties including roping, horse breaking, riding, herding, branding, and much more. These events are now competitions in our modern day rodeos (Clark).
The Flint Hills Rodeo is an important yearly event with roots deeply embedded in Chase County history. It is said that in the 1930s, the children of E.C. Roberts, including Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductee Marjorie Roberts and her brothers, rodeo stars Ken and Gerald, used to "play rodeo" on their ranch using their family's livestock. Gradually, local interest in these impromptu performances grew, and in 1937, Roberts, his son Ken, and his son-in-law Eddie Boysen staged what is widely considered to be the first professional rodeo in Chase County. At that time, no rodeo facilities existed, so Roberts offered the use of the big corral on his ranch located two miles west of Strong City. The event was such a rousing success, the Flint Hills Rodeo Association was formed the following year and plans were made to continue the Flint Hills Rodeo annually ("Flint…Rodeo," 348).
Along with culture, food, and people, Louisiana offers many historic attractions. Plantation homes have been apart of Louisiana’s unique culture since the late 1700’s. Many wealthy people migrated from the north to the south to make a profit by farming. These owners bought slaves to do various activities such as picking cotton or farming. Slaves lived on plantations in slave homes where they remained for the rest of their life or if they could work enough to pay for their freedom. Many know that these plantation homes were built for farming tobacco and other cash crops such as rice and indigo, but most do not know the history and who built them. There are over 40 known plantation homes and the most popular plantation homes include Oak Alley,
The California Gold Rush was an event that became prominent in 1849. The event consisted of the discovery of gold in the United States territory of California. That year, over 89,000 people from many countries moved to the territory to try to find gold for themselves. This resulted in the territory eventually having enough people to become a state. The event also brought 81 million dollars in gold production to California.
1988-2000 Starting over with a $100,000 gift from his dad, he started feeding cattle and drilling oil wells using the newly developed “horizontal drilling technology”. In 1990 he moved to Lufkin, Texas where he continued feeding cattle and drilling oil wells. In 1992 he assembled a 36,000 acre drilling block in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana and through 1996, had drilled the five deepest horizontal oil wells in the world. Unfortunately the Louisiana venture was a technical success, but it was a financial failure. None of the five wells ever paid out. In 1993 he married Rita Irene Ambrosia and they still live in Lufkin where he continues to manage his oil and gas properties and invest in cattle futures.
Lane Frost was born in La Junta, Colorado on October 12, 1963, while his dad was still competing in the rodeo circuit. Lane grew up with a desire to ride bulls. He was showing an interest in the sport as young as 5 months. His mom, Elsie Frost, said that whenever they went to rodeos Lane would always fight to stay awake to watch the bull riding. If they tried to leave before it was over, he would scream and cry and throw a huge fit (Frost 1). At the age of five Lane started riding dairy calves on the family dairy farm in Vernal, Utah. He rode calves and steers when he was younger, entering and competing in any rodeo he could. In 1978, when Lane was 15 years old, his family moved to Lane, Oklahoma. There he began to compete regularly in bull riding, and in 1981 he won the National High School Rodeo bull riding championship. Lane graduated from Atoka High school in 1982. He was offered rodeo scholarships from many different colleges, but he turned them down and decided to pursue a professional bull riding career instead...
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The wagons ahead stretched for miles. Everyone was all going to the same place, California, to seek a fortune that they could only dream for, gold. The California gold rush lasted from 1848-1850. During this time people from all over the world were all going to California to seek a fortune of gold. However, not everyone was able to make this dream come true because there were many difficult challenges to deal with in order to make it to California. During the California gold rush many immigrants found challenges on their way to California, there was an abundance of people going to California, and there was a large crime rate.
Ranching goes beyond chasing cows and riding horses. Ranchers are businessmen. They carefully manage their operation's expenses, income, and taxes like other typical businessmen. Income only comes once a year when they sell their calves in the fall. Therefore, each dollar is spent wisely on equipment, feed, and advertising.
also said that Richard was always plotting ways that he could become king such as killing his brother Clarence and killing young
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