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The Waggoner Ranch is a historic ranch located 13 miles south of Vernon, Texas, in north Texas near the Red River and Oklahoma border. Founded in 1852 by Daniel Waggoner, [2] it is the largest ranch within one fence in the United States. [3] [4] The land has been used to raise crops, beef cattle, and horses and to produce oil.
[6] [7] He raised 200,000 Texas Longhorn cattle. [3] The ranch has been used by the movie industry since the 1950s. For example, Giant was shot on the ranch in 1956. [3] More recently, it was used as a shooting location for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005, [7] followed by There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in 2007. [3]
By 1907, the Stockyards sold a million cattle per year. The stockyards was an organized place where cattle, sheep, and hogs could be bought, sold and slaughtered. Fort Worth remained an important part of the cattle industry until the 1950s. Business suffered due to livestock auctions held closer to where the livestock were originally produced. [3]
A watering trough on a stock route, Australia A Bills horse trough in Sebastian, Victoria, Australia Sheep watering trough, Idaho, 1930s. A watering trough (or artificial watering point) is a man-made or natural receptacle intended to provide drinking water to animals, livestock on farms or ranches or wild animals.
Location of Cass County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cass County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cass County, Texas. There are three properties listed on the National Register in the county.
Location of Ellis County in Texas This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ellis County, Texas . There are eight districts, 114 individual properties, and one former property listed on the National Register in the county.
The Texas rig is a fishing rig used for angling with soft plastic lures. [1] [2] It comprises a bullet weight or similar sliding fishing sinker, an offset worm hook, and a soft plastic lure. [3] Diagram of a Texas rig comprising a soft plastic worm (green), bullet weight (grey), hook (black), and fishing line (blue) A Texas-rigged ribbontail worm
Modern livestock trough near Empire Ranch, Arizona. A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feeder used to hold food for animals. The word comes from the Old French mangier (meaning "to eat"), from Latin mandere (meaning "to chew"). [1] Mangers are mostly used in livestock raising [2] and generally found at stables and ...