Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Rankin Ranch is a historic ranch off Montana Highway 284, north of Townsend in rural Broadwater County, Montana. A National Historic Landmark , it was a longtime summer residence of Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), whose 1916 election to the United States House of Representatives made her the first woman elected to the House.
In 1982, about 92% of the land in Upton County was in farms and ranches, but less than 1% of the county was considered prime farmland, and only 2% of the county was cultivated. [4] In the fall of 1911, the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway reached the townsite of Rankin, and by January 1912, most of the people living in Upland had moved to ...
Hopalong Cassidy and his sidekicks California Carlson and Lin Bradley leave their Bar 20 ranch for a cattle buy from the Stevens spread. Along the way, they encounter Mrs. Stevens, her daughter Marie and ranch hand Mark Jackson, whose stagecoach has been robbed by the Quirt Rankin gang.
In 1906, Cooper purchased the 600-acre (240 ha) Seven-Bar-Nine cattle ranch, [3] [4] about 50 miles (80 km) north of Helena near Craig, Montana. [5]In 1918, Cooper ran as a Republican against John A. Matthews for a seat on the state supreme court, winning by a few hundred votes out of nearly 90,000 votes cast. [6]
Here's what to know about the ranch: History of the 6666 Ranch. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the 6666 brand was founded by Samuel Burk Burnett in 1870 at the age of 19.
One mile west was Fort Rankin (later Fort Sedgwick) with a complement of one company of cavalry, about sixty men, under Captain Nicholas J. O'Brien. [3] The fort, although only four months old, was formidable, measuring 240 by 360 feet (73 by 110 metres), and ringed by a sod wall 18 feet (5.5 m) tall.
The historic 6666 Ranch in West Texas has officially sold. Here's a look back at it's place in history, and what was there. Here's a look at the history of the West Texas 6666 Ranch, which sold ...
Company C, 2nd Battalion, 13th Infantry, 3 officers, 80 enlisted men and 6 civilians commanded by Capt. (Brevet Lt. Col.) William G. Rankin, first established a camp on the site on June 15, 1866, with orders to build a post, the majority of which was built using adobe and cottonwood enclosed by a wooden stockade.