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Git Along, Lonesome Ranchers »
Cattle ranching in Texas has been endangered almost since its inception. Has the harsh economic reality finally caught up with our most iconic business?
November 2012 by S. C. Gwynne
Scenes from the JA Ranch
Photographs by Wyatt McSpadden and Stuart McSpadden.
November 2012
Cowgirl Up »
The word probably makes you think of rhinestone-studded jeans, floppy-brimmed hats, and Nashville queens, but “cowgirl” ought to stand for the tough pioneer women who built ranches and went on cattle drives and the hardy rural women who are out there today doing their fair share of the work, usually invisibly, to maintain a majestic way of live.
August 2011 by Barney Nelson
True Grit
A celebration of our state's cowgirls. Photographs by LeAnn Mueller.
August 2011 Produced by Patricia Busa McConnico
Cutting »
What every Texan should know about cutting.
July 2011 by Andrea Valdez
Gentling Cheatgrass »
What does it take to break a wild mustang? Patience, horse sense, experience, and if you’re Teryn Lee Muench, no more than one hundred days.
December 2010 by Sterry Butcher
A Q&A With Sterry Butcher »
Sterry Butcher talks about her experience watching Teryn Lee Muench break a wild mustang in less than one hundred days.
December 2010 Interview by Jasmin Sun
The Gentle One
A slide show featuring James H. Evans’s images of a wild mustang and the cowboy who tames him.
December 2010 Produced by Patricia Busa McConnico
Who’s That Girl? »
Who are Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato?
August 2010 by Christopher Kelly
Fred Garza »
Tick Rider
January 2008 As told to Karen Olsson
The Next Frontier »
How has the state’s most storied ranch managed to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century? By operating in a way that its founder, Captain Richard King, would scarcely recognize.
August 2007 by S. C. Gwynne
When We Were Kings »
For the first time in its history, the world-famous King Ranch is being run by someone other than a descendant of its founder. Can the mythic institution survive a changing of the guard?
August 1998 by Skip Hollandsworth
The Biggest Ranches »
No matter who’s in charge, the King Ranch still rules: It’s number one on our list of the state’s top twenty spreads.
August 1998 by Erin Davies
Briscoe’s Bounty »
Dolph Briscoe used to govern Texas. He still owns a bigger piece of it than any individual in the world.
August 1998 by Kathryn Jones
Shrinking Giant »
Once more than a million acres, the Matador Ranch is today a fraction of that size. How it got from there to here is the story of Texas ranching.
August 1998 by Kathryn Jones
The War for the Colorado »
Battles over the river’s precious waters are pulling in everyone from pecan growers in Central Texas to shrimpers in Matagorda Bay, not to mention thirsty cities like San Antonio and Corpus Christi. Who will be left high and dry?
May 1997 by Helen Thorpe
Home on the Range »
Home on the Range All over Texas, small ranchers are giving up and moving to the city. But the Stoner family of Uvalde is as determined as ever to hold on to its land—and its way of life.
October 1996 by Paul Burka
Rainpower »
A rain windfall in the Hill Country
October 1996 by Joe Nick Patoski
Nerd Herd »
The drought drives cattle ranchers online.
September 1996 by Kathryn Jones
Cattle Call »
The Federal Express of the cattle business.
May 1996 by Robert Bryce
The Last Roundup »
“When the cowboys on the 06 ranch talked about losing a way of life, they often pointed to their neighbor, Clayton Williams, as an example of what they meant. He was a millionaire and an oilman, and he represented everything they hated.”
February 1985 by Gary Cartwright
The Last Empire »
The King Ranch saga: how one family conquered, tamed, loved, toiled on, and fought over a great piece of Texas.
October 1980 by William Broyles
A Family Affair »
The ranch has endured because one family willed it to endure.
October 1980
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