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Part cowboy, part CEO, all weather-beaten gambler betting everything on grass and rain.
means A person who owns or operates a ranch, raising livestock like cattle, sheep, or horses over wide stretches of grazing land.
from From 'ranch,' which rode north into English from American Spanish 'rancho' — a word for a group who eat together or a humble settlement, ultimately from Spanish 'rancharse,' to lodge or be billeted. The trail traces back through Old French to a Germanic root tied to forming a row or ring (a cousin of 'rank' and 'arrange'). So beneath the dust, a rancher is someone who gathered people and beasts into one settled circle on the open land.
- land barons
- Some U.S. ranches dwarf entire small countries
- profit math
- Often richer in acres than actual cash
- original cowboys
- Vaqueros invented the trade in Spanish Mexico
- weather slave
- One drought can erase a generation's herd
- dawn boss
- Cattle don't recognize weekends or holidays
king ranch — texas ranch spanning 825,000 acres, founded 1853, largest in continental us
flying d ranch — montana ranch owned by ted turner, 96,000 acres near bozeman
la pitilla ranch — argentine estancia in buenos aires province, historic cattle ranching since 1800s