ranch
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Records show that the sale of the home officially closed on July 30, less than two months after the ranch was listed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Artificial-intelligence startup Poolside and cloud-infrastructure company CoreWeave have said they would build a massive data-center complex on a sprawling ranch in West Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Sanchez also revealed to the outlet that Bezos has a space-themed bar dubbed the Kármán Line Bar located on the West Texas ranch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her ranch, about 130 miles northeast of Higdon’s spread, sits at 10,000 feet above sea level, ideal for yaks who thrive in the state’s cool, alpine climate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The next morning as we were getting ready for our trip back to Mexico, I went outside and watched the school bus pick up kids from the ranch.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Watch the video above to explore how the myth of the American cowboy became a global obsession, from the ranches of Oklahoma to a Tokyo honky-tonk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Jim Locke, 50, who ranches near Miami, Texas, has been a volunteer for 24 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
These ranches once supported families, small towns, local stores and restaurants, feed suppliers, truckers, veterinarians, and entire rural communities.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“God bless her. She let me go out and live on ranches and run with other people to get away from him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
I was trying to picture herds of balonies roaming around on ranches.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched as a young man in the Badlands of what is now western North Dakota.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
These ancient wetlands had been plundered for timber, then ranched, and finally acquired by the state in the 1970s to nurture back to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
When Letseoma was growing up in this house, her father had farmed and ranched and had owned horses, cattle, sheep, and chickens.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
As Grandpa got older he ranched less and farmed more, until one day he stopped farming.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
The U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The only thing he might be just as passionate about as sports, it turns out, is ranching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But the New Mexico State Land Commission cancelled the leases in September 2019 after the office determined that Epstein had used the tract as a privacy buffer - not for ranching or agriculture.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
I know: I wrote a lengthy cover story on beef and ranching in this week’s Barron’s.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
The freezing-cold winter had killed three-quarters of all the cattle that roamed the Badlands, and ranching turned out to be a money-losing venture for him.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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