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Samuel Burk Burnett was born on January 1, 1849, in Bates County, Missouri, [1] [2] to parents originally from Virginia. [3] His father, Jeremiah Burnett, was a farmer; his mother was Mary (Turner) Burnett. [2] He had a brother, Bruce Burnett, who later became a rancher in his own right. [4]
The ranch was established by Samuel Burk Burnett in 1900 after he purchased the land from the Louisville Land and Cattle Company. [3] [7] Legend has it that he won the ranch from a card game, where he scored four sixes. [3] However, Burnett and his descendants have denied this folklore tale. [3]
In 1906, a nearby wealthy rancher named Samuel Burk Burnett sold more than 16,000 acres (65 km 2) of his land in northern Wichita County to a group of investors who were seeking to extend into the wheat-growing area of Western Oklahoma the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell/Joseph A. Kemp properties based in Wichita ...
Samuel Burk Burnett (maternal great-grandfather) Thomas Lloyd Burnett (maternal grandfather) Anne Windfohr Marion (born Anne Valliant Burnett Hall ; November 10, 1938 – February 11, 2020) was an American heiress, rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas .
Some of the earliest settlers were Isom Lynn, A. C. Tackett, Brants Baker, and Bud Arnett. The Four Sixes Ranch was established in 1902 by Samuel Burk Burnett. [6] The formerly-named Pitchfork Land and Cattle Company was organized in 1883, and SMS ranches were established during the same time frame. [7]
His father, Samuel Burk Burnett, was the owner of the 6666 Ranch. His mother was Ruth (Lloyd) Burnett. He moved to Wichita County, Texas with his parents in 1875, when he was four years old. [1] [2] Burnett was educated at a private academy in St. Louis, Missouri and the Virginia Military Institute. [1] [2]
Mary and Samuel Burnett made their home in Fort Worth, Texas. The couple had one child, Samuel Burk Burnett Jr., who died one month short of his twenty-first birthday in 1916. The marriage became contentious, in part because of Samuel Burnett's relationship with his granddaughter Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy. The situation deteriorated to the ...
In 1905, alongside rancher Samuel Burk Burnett, he went wolf-hunting with President Theodore Roosevelt on the Big Pasture. [3] The two ranchers were hoping to persuade him to keep the land 'open range.' [ 3 ] However impressed President Roosevelt was with the adventure, that did not happen.