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Albert McIntire

Early in 1896, McIntire rejected a last-minute insanity defense appeal of the Park County rancher Benjamin Ratcliff, who murdered three members of his local school board with whom he had quarreled over the education of this three children.

Alfred S. Gage

Alfred Stevens Gage (February 6, 1860– June 23, 1928) was an American rancher and businessman who founded the A. S. Gage Ranch in west Texas.

Bull riding

Many early Texas rangers, who had to be expert horsemen and later went on to become ranchers, learned and adapted Hispanic techniques and traditions to ranches in the United States.

California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.

Charles Woodward

Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward - (1924 - 1990), Canadian merchant and rancher, grandson of Charles A. Woodward

Cochrane, Alberta

Cochrane was established in 1881 as the Cochrane Ranche, after Matthew Henry Cochrane, a local rancher.

Darwin Falls

Darwin Falls, the Darwin Falls Wilderness, the nearby town of Darwin, California, and all other areas named "Darwin" in the vicinity are named after Dr. Darwin French (1822–1902), a local rancher, miner, and explorer.

Darwin Falls Wilderness

The Darwin Falls Wilderness, falls and town are all named after Dr. Darwin French, a local rancher, miner and explorer.

David Wylie

David James Wylie (1859–1932), English-born civil engineer, farmer, rancher and political figure in Saskatchewan

Dawson, New Mexico

Dawson was a coal mining company town founded in 1901 when rancher John Barkley Dawson sold his coal-rich land in northern New Mexico to the Dawson Fuel Company.

Drew Springer, Jr.

It initially appeared that Springer had lost the 2012 Republican primary election, when his chief opponent, Trent McKnight, a rancher from Throckmorton County, backed by Governor Rick Perry, state agriculture commissioner Todd Staples, the Texas Farm Bureau, and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

Ezra Riley

Ezra Hounsfield Riley (June 5, 1866 – January 5, 1937) was a politician and rancher from Alberta, Canada.

Fabio Ochoa

Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (1923-2002), father, Colombian rancher and patriarch of a notorious crime family associated with the Medellín Cartel

Frank Richter

Frank Richter, Sr. (1837–1910), Canadian rancher and settler of British Columbia

Franklin Leslie

During 1884 to 1886, he served during the Apache uprisings as a scout for the Fourth Cavalry, and afterward as a mounted customs inspector along the Rio Grande area and became a rancher.

George Spahn

George Spahn (February 11, 1889 – September 22, 1974) was a rancher who once owned the Spahn Ranch near Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California.

Glenn Corbett

In movies, Corbett also starred with John Wayne in the 1970 film Chisum, as sheriff Pat Garrett, opposite Wayne's role as Lincoln County rancher John Chisum.

Greenwell Springs, Louisiana

It is the home of former Louisiana State Senator Gaston Gerald, a farmer/rancher in East Baton Rouge and Washington parishes.

Hugh Shaw

Hugh Murray Shaw (1876–1934), farmer, rancher and Canadian federal politician

Hugo, Colorado

"Bev" Bledsoe - Colorado's longest serving Speaker of the Colorado State House of Representatives was a rancher from Hugo.

John Spoor Broome

He acquired the nickname the “Flying Rancher” for his frequent use of a Mitsubishi MU-2.

Kempster Blanchard Miller

His brother was businessman, rancher and citrus farmer Azariel Blanchard Miller (1878–1941), founder of the city of Fontana, California.

Lane Chandler

He was born as Robert Chandler Oakes on a ranch near Culbertson, Montana, the son of a horse rancher.

Livermorium

The city in turn is named after the American rancher Robert Livermore, a naturalized Mexican citizen of English birth.

Marie Clotilde Bonaparte

Anne de Witt (b. 28 September 1953 in Bergerac, France) married Henry Robert de Rancher (1949–1995) on June 7, 1975, in Cendrieux, France, and had two sons.

Matthew Mechtel

Mechtel served as Chairman of the Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Committee, Chairman of the North Dakota Soybean Council.

Nadine Wilson

A fourth-generation cattle rancher, she and her husband own and manage Hereford and crossbreed Angus cattle.

North Palisade

The following year, Lil Winchell called it Dusy's Peak after local rancher Frank Dusy.

Perkins School of Theology

It is named for its benefactor Joseph Sterling Bridwell, an oilman and rancher who was a neighbor of the Perkinses in Wichita Falls.

Picabo, Idaho

The pristine Silver Creek is renowned among fly fisherman and was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway, who enjoyed hunting and fishing along the stream with local rancher Bud Purdy.

Rancho Las Positas y La Calera

Thomas Hope moved to Santa Barbara in 1850 to become a sheep rancher and prospered, especially when the price of wool skyrocketed during the American Civil War.

Raymond Stampede

Under the direction of rancher Raymond Knight, cowboys from the surrounding ranches were invited to participate in this first rodeo, which consisted of saddle bronc riding and steer roping.

Recluse, Wyoming

Sue Wallis - rancher and Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from Campbell County, served 2007 until her death in January 2014

Red River Valley Museum

The William A. Bond Trophy and Game Room features mounted exotic game collected by the local hunter and rancher.

Richmond P. Hobson, Jr.

His books, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, and The Rancher Takes a Wife, inspired a CBC television program (Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy).

Scobey, Montana

The city was named by local rancher Mansfield Daniels, after whom Daniels County is named, for his friend Major Charles Richardson Anderson Scobey, a cattleman from the Glendive area who served as a Montana Territory legislator and an Indian agent at Fort Peck and Poplar.

Sir Barton

As a sire, Sir Barton enjoyed only moderate success and spent the better part of the rest of his life as a working horse with the U.S. Army Remount Service in Fort Robinson, Nebraska until being sold to rancher J.R. Hylton in Douglas, Wyoming.

Straight Arrow

The protagonist, rancher Steve Adams, became the Comanche Indian, the Straight Arrow, when bad people or other dangers threatened.

Sumo people

However, problems with the land continue, and in Wasakin (a Mayangna community near Rosita) a state of violent confrontation between the Mayangna and invading Mestizos has led to the killing of a rancher and the subsequent murder of two young Indians.

Take a Hard Ride

Pike (Jim Brown), the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan (Dana Andrews), is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Sonora, Mexico after his boss dies.

The Rare Breed

Martha Price is told by daughter Hilary about a conversation she overheard between Burnett and two men working for competing rancher John Taylor (Alan Caillou).

Thomas C. Stanford

After a brief stay there, he located a homestead in the Little Wood River valley, which was the center of his operations as a rancher and stockman.

Thomas M. Storke

He was editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press and its predecessors, a rancher and citrus fruit grower, and postmaster of Santa Barbara from 1914 to 1921.

United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, 2008

Other Republicans running include conservative former state Treasurer Cynthia Lummis, state Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, businessman and rancher Mark Gordon of Buffalo, and retired naval captain and 2006 candidate Bill Winney who had garnered 40 percent of the vote against Cubin in the 2006 primary.

Utica, Montana

One of Utica's most famous local residents was the western painter C.M. Russell, who at the time was a young cowhand hired by a local rancher and gold miner named Jake Hoover.

Zachary Scott

Born in Austin, Texas, he was a distant cousin of George Washington, and his grandfather had been a very successful cattle rancher.


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