When I say Texas, people think of huge cattle ranches, cowboys or charros on horseback and wide open spaces. While there are part of Texas that have all three, the working ranch is something that is disappearing from the Texas. Why? I think it has to do with the end of agricultural exemptions, the inequity between the price of cattle and what it takes to feed them.

Ranches

Bar H Dude Ranch-working Texas cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle.

Cibolo Creek Ranch-originally founded by Milton Faver in the mid-1800s in Big Bend country. He was thought to be the inspiration for Gil Faver of the TV series Rawhide.

Dixie Dude Ranch-working ranch, located in the Texas Hill Country, founded by William Wallace Whitley in 1901.

Joshua Creek Ranch-game preserve and hunting ranch, turned resort in the summer months, outside Boerne.

Historic Prude Ranch-pure air and a mile-high elevation, Prude Ranch in West Texas has some of the most brilliant, star-filled skies in the country.

Selah Inn at the Ranch-located in east Texas outside Mt. Vernon.

B-Bar-B Ranch-originally part of the King Ranch on the Texas coastal plain.

Beaumont Ranch-located on the Chisholm Trail, not far from Dallas/Fort Worth, see real cowboys on horseback herding longhorn cattle.

Wildcatter Ranch-located in the Cross Timbers area west of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, near Possum Kingdom Lake.

Quiet Hill Ranch-a nature and wildlife ranch located west of Fredericksburg, is a wonderful rest for the spirit.

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