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unusual facts about ranching



Amerrisque Mountains

Some important cities located at the feet of the Amerrisques include Estelí (210,000), a cultural and manufacturing center, and Juigalpa (110,000), a cattle ranching area.

Armstrong County, Texas

Tom Blasingame, the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, lived in Armstrong County and worked for seventy-three years in ranching, mostly on the JA Ranch.

Chalatenango, Chalatenango

Another popular sport in the region is ranching or Jaripeo.

Charles Gowan

He originally settled near Namao, Alberta, but moved to Edmonton in 1904 where he engaged in logging and ranching.

Espot

The area also depends on the milk industry and cattle ranching, specifically bovines.

Filabusi

Agriculture in the Filabusi area comprises cattle ranching and small-scale farming (see photo), the latter mainly on recent resettlement land.

George Cowles

George A. Cowles (1836–1887), ranching pioneer in San Diego, California

Greenup County, Kentucky

Traditionally, this has meant a sizeable tobacco base and cattle ranching, but in recent years, as traditional agriculture products have come under the dominance of agri-corporations, growth has been seen in non-traditional products such as American Quarter Horses, ostriches, and marijuana.

Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum

The Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum is located on the former Holden Mining and Smelting Company facility on the western edge of the city of Aspen, Colorado, United States.

John Hextall

In 1908, perhaps for health reasons, Hextall brought his family to Calgary, Canada, where at first he began ranching with a partner, Frank Shackle.

John Spoor Broome

He was born in Chicago, Illinois into a successful ranching family, the son of Thornhill Francis Broome and Caryl Russell Spoor.

K-Bob's Steakhouse

A graduate in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin and in law from Texas Tech University, Tinsley, an attorney, has ranching, petroleum and natural gas interests in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

Monthalia, Texas

As a testament to its livestock ranching, Nolan Ryan Beef operates several ranches in the area raising cattle.

Pavilion Mountain

Pavilion Mountain is a mountain in the Marble Range in the South Cariboo region of the South-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located northeast of the ranching and First Nations community of Pavilion and to the north of Marble Canyon and immediately south of Kelly Lake, which is the focus of Downing Provincial Park.

Ruth Roach

Her 24-year career began in 1914 and ended in 1938, when she retired from the rodeo and started a ranching business in Nocona, Texas, with her husband, Fred Salmon.

Sid W. Richardson

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Stella F. Thayer

She is also a member of the Lykes Family of Florida that wholly owns Lykes Bros. Inc with 337000 acres of land holdings (526 sq miles)including cattle ranching, forestry, sod, sugarcane farms, insurance, and ecoassets.

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 Rowell Leavitt

Leavitt died there in 1891, leaving a legacy of scores of disciples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints named Leavitt, many of whom remain in the region today, ranching and living in the bucolic area in the shadow of Chief Mountain.

Touchet Formation

Excellent exposures of the unit (which contains abundant clastic dikes) can be found in roadcuts along Hwy 74 (Heppner Highway) near the ranching community of Cecil, Oregon.


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