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  Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | Okay if we as Texans pull our $$$ we can buy this ranch for a mear $725 million...510,527 acres over 6 county in north Texas.... mear drop in the bucket.
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 Hawty & Nawty
Posts: 20424
| I'm just praying it stays just the way it is with an owner who can appreciate the history behind it and not try and modernize it. |
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 Ima Fickle Fan
Posts: 3547
Location: Texas | We could all pitch in, turn it into a timeshare, and sell week vacations for people to play cowboy. |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 929
| I'm down! I will add next month's rent money! There's an extra $1800 and I am all the way out here in SoCal. But I would leave for that kind of place any day! |
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Posts: 3782
Location: Gainesville, TX | Yes a BHW partnership running a dude ranch. That would be fun. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 316
| Saw this.. What is the story behind this.. why is it for sale? What have they been doing with it? |
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Ima Fickle Fan
Posts: 3547
Location: Texas | It's still a working ranch. Family doesn't agree on direction and isn't getting along is what I've heard. |
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
Posts: 3106
Location: North Dakota | oija - 2015-05-21 4:42 PM Yes a BHW partnership running a dude ranch. That would be fun.
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 Total Germophobe
Posts: 6443
Location: Montana | I think if we got everybody on here to contribute, we can maybe afford the down payment, LOL. Can you imagine all the names on that deed??? LOL |
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 Quarter Horse HIstorian
Posts: 2878
Location: Aubrey, Texas | My God, the ghosts of good horses that are roaming that ranch! |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
Posts: 10277
| oija - 2015-05-21 4:42 PM Yes a BHW partnership running a dude ranch. That would be fun.
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Tried and True
Posts: 21185
Location: Where I am happiest | http://www.chassmiddleton.com/listman/listings/l0052.html |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
Posts: 64864
Location: In the Hills of Texas | It comes out to a little under $3,000. per acre. There is 58 homes on it which I imagine most are pretty much not much as they must have been for the help that stayed on the ranch.
Sad deal to see these great ranches disappearing and what really sucks is there are many foreigners looking at it. Just think...A far eastern country could buy it and have their own country within Texas as it's a half a million acres.
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 Accident Prone
Posts: 22277
Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Nevertooold - 2015-05-21 8:51 PM It comes out to a little under $3,000. per acre. There is 58 homes on it which I imagine most are pretty much not much as they must have been for the help that stayed on the ranch.
Sad deal to see these great ranches disappearing and what really sucks is there are many foreigners looking at it. Just think...A far eastern country could buy it and have their own country within Texas as it's a half a million acres.
I hate seeing things like that happen. One greedy heir or poor estate planning and it's ruined for everyone. There is a 15,000 acre farm being sold here for the same reason. One owner was farming it, his sister forced a sale. |
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 Neat Freak
Posts: 11216
Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I don't know the history on this particular ranch, but most of those ginourmous ranches got that way by illegal ways WAY back in the day. I watched a documentory on it once. Very facinating.
There was a man in my area that came from back east. He had been in a boxing match and killed a man. They sent him on his way with paperwork saying he wasn't crazy (he got off somehow in court) and did a homestead just down the road from me. He truly was crazy if you talk to the neighbors that remember him, and most have a few stories to tell. But he would always show everyone that paperwork that "proved" he wasn't crazy. When others were coming around and doing homesteads, he would scare the daylights out of them until they left and then he would claim their places. He used to get his hired men from CO and they weren't real reputable people either. They would work a while and then want their paycheck, only to never be seen or heard from again.
My husband's uncle worked for him when he was teenager. It was in trade for something if I remember right and he was terrified of this guy the longer he dealt with him. I think there are a lot of crazy stories like that associated with old time ranches. WY has a lot of that history with the Johnson County War. Most of those rich ranchers were killers in every since of the word to get bigger places and run more cattle.
Not sure where I was going with this, but some neat history with those old ranches. |
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 Good Grief!
Posts: 6343
Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Very sad to see this.....m |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1074
| Very sad! What an amazing piece of history going down the drain! I'm hoping that some rich Texan comes in and buys it and keeps it the way it is.
A friend of mine visited the ranch a week or two ago. He said that it took 2 school buses to pick up all the kids off the main camp at the ranch for school. Too bad the families can't make an agreement. |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
Posts: 64864
Location: In the Hills of Texas | In 1991, Electra Waggoner Biggs sued to be able to sell the ranch.[10] Her second cousin, Albert Buckman Wharton III, also known as Bucky Wharton, who was Buster Wharton's son, appealed to stop the liquidation.[10] After Electra Waggoner Biggs's death, her share was inherited by Electra Waggoner Biggs's daughter Helen Biggs and her husband, Gene Willingham.[7]
The ranch has been surveyed by the United States Department of Agriculture for matters of preservation.[2] Thirty cowboys, and about 120 people overall, are employed on the property.[2] It has about 14,000 cows and bulls as well as 500 horses.[5] It also includes 30,000 acres of arable land and about 1,100 producing oil wells.[5] One of the lakes on the ranch provides water for the City of Wichita Falls.[5]
The ranch was listed on the real estate market in August 2014.[ |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Eh pocket change. I'll be moved in next week.  |
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