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After the sale, Lyda retired to his 220,000-acre La Escalera Ranch south of Fort Stockton, Texas.By 1999, he had owned or traded more than 880,000 acres (3600 km²) of ranch real estate, including the large Ladder Ranch in southeastern New Mexico, which he eventually sold to Ted Turner and Jane Fonda.
Taylor-Stevenson Ranch is an historic 640-acre working ranch located near Reliant Stadium on Almeda Rd. in Houston, TX. [1] The ranch was officially designated in the Congressional Record as a " Texas Century Ranch " which recognizes ownership by the same family for over a century. [ 2 ]
Louis M. Pearce Jr. (February 17, 1917 – December 26, 2012) was an American businessman and rancher known for leading the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Pearce attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1936 to 1939 where he majored in business administration.
The Texas Hill Country is a geographic region of Central and South Texas, forming the southeast part of the Edwards Plateau. Given its location, climate, terrain, and vegetation, the Hill Country can be considered the border between the American South and Southwest . [ 1 ]
The Allen Ranch, or Sam Allen Ranch, was one of the first and longest running ranches in the history of the state of Texas in the United States. The ranch was started a few years after the Texas Revolution in what is now southeast Houston and Pasadena. The ranch itself extended from Clear Lake to Harrisburg (in modern east Houston). [1]
Echo Hill Ranch is a summer ranch camp of about 400 acres (1.6 km 2) in the Texas Hill Country. Echo Hill Ranch. The ranch was founded in 1953 by Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie Samet Friedman. It is located south of Kerrville near Medina. Echo Hill was founded as a noncompetitive, child-centered ranch camp for boys and girls ages 6–14.
The Working Ranch Cowboys Association (WRCA) was established in 1995 [1] in Amarillo, Texas, United States, as a professional association for ranch owners, foremen, and cowboys. One of their stated goals was to keep the western heritage, ideals, and work ethics alive.
West 11th Street Park, in TMCC, [5] is a 20.2-acre (8.2 ha) City of Houston park property; the community already used it as a park by the 1950s. The Timbergrove Sports Association uses the baseball diamond there. The Hogg Foundation, the original owners, gave it to the University of Texas (UT). In the 1950s HISD acquired the property from UT.