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While running the business, Swenson continued to buy railroad land and then bought school scripts to acquire additional property. In 1854 Svenson invested in the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, which gained him acres of land in northwestern and western Texas. [2] SMS Ranches eventually became one of the largest landowners in Texas.
By 2004, the number had fallen to 93 Black Angus and Cattle Company restaurants in 10 states, with 57 units in California. [8] In September 2004, American Restaurant Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for Black Angus Steakhouse. Black Angus was indebted approximately $202 million and had in 2003 reported revenue of $276.6 million ...
The LIT Ranch is an 56,000-acre (230 km 2) ranch located on the Canadian River in the Texas counties of Oldham, Hartley, Moore, and Potter. The ranch was established by Major George W. Littlefield in 1877. LIT Ranch headquarters were located 4 miles (6 km) east of Tascosa, the second town to be established in the Texas Panhandle. By 1878, it ...
Exterior of a restaurant in Houston, 2024. The first Saltgrass Steak House opened in March 1991 along the Katy Freeway (I-10) in Houston. [3] It sits along the historic trail where cattle herders would drive their livestock south to graze on the salt grasses of the Texas Gulf Coast.
Anderson wrote two books about his life in the restaurant business. The second, Corporate Cowboy Stuart Anderson: How a Maverick Entrepreneur Built Black Angus, America’s #1 Restaurant Chain of the 1980s, was written in 2014 shortly before his death. [11] Anderson, Stuart (1997). Here's the Beef! My Story of Beef. Seattle, Washington: Hara.
Mar. 2—MIDLAND — For John Scharbauer, the Fifth Generation Rancher, the feeling might take a little bit longer to hit him that his family's cattle business, the Scharbauer Cattle Company is in ...
The JA Ranch is located southeast of Amarillo, Texas in the Texas Panhandle. The main ranch house, now a museum devoted to Charles Goodnight, is located a short way south of United States Route 287. It is a two-story construction, its oldest portion a log cabin which predates the American Civil War. The main portion of the house, built ...
SKELLYTOWN, Texas (AP) — First, the flames came storming across the vistas of the Texas Panhandle, burning through the grassy plains and scrub land of the region's cattle ranches.