texas ranches: FAMOUS TEXAS RANCHES-NUMBER TWO IN A SERIES - 05/17/10 04:00 PM
Talk about feeling very small, while studing the history of this Famous Texas Ranch it made me understand that I do not have the knowledge as a writer or student to do justice to this great historical family treasure.  The KING RANCH is larger than life, you just need to read the online information and story of this fantastic family operation as a ranch and business to even gert a glimpse of what it has meant to the State of Texas
I, am only going to cover a few details of the story because if I did try to cover the complete history from the very … (7 comments)

texas ranches: FAMOUS TEXAS RANCHES, NUMBER ONE - 05/16/10 02:45 PM
When I thought about writing on some of the famous Texas Ranches I wanted to start with the YO Ranch that covered parts of several counties in the area where I live, Kerr County.  However it is not the largest in Texas by any means being only 600,000 thousand acres but very famous at least in Texas.  I am going to write about The YO later because I wanted to start with the largest ranch that being The XIT Ranch.
Some of the history of The XIT Ranch which was the largest ranch in the world under fence and in 1880 it consisted of … (10 comments)