Ranches the size of small nations

“FOR SALE: Largest ranch in the US within a single fence. Texas fixer-upper with more than 1000 oil wells; 6800 head of cattle; 500 quarter horses; 120 km2 of cropland; tombstones for legendary cowboys, long-dead dogs, and a horse buried standing up. Favorite of Will Rogers and Teddy Roosevelt. Colorful history of drinking and divorce. 15-minute drive to rib-eyes at the Rusty Spur in Vernon. Ideal for Saudi oil sheiks, billionaire hedge funders, and dot-commers who can tell a cow from a steer. Profitable. 0 debt. Property taxes only $800K a year. Price: $725M. Everything you can see, as far as the eye can see, is the ranch”. He points straight ahead, then behind him, then left. “Each horizon is this ranch.”

also, the world’s largest working cattle ranch is on the market. Australia’s remote Anna Creek Station clocks in at 24k km2—more than 12x the size of Waggoner –and its sale package will include 160k head of cattle.

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