ranch
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She also told the magazine she wishes to retire “and buy a ranch in Wyoming.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The flames also came close to Macnab’s ranch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
He would retain access to the family jet and ranch, as well as the corporate box at AT&T Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
I took a bite of the buttery Texas toast and the crinkle-cut fries, then dipped them into the creamy, peppery Cane’s Sauce, which tasted something like pickled ranch.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Maybe even bigger than that ranch they always talk about in Texas.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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This strange realm of pointy peaks, rocky caves and soaring condors is California’s youngest and smallest national park, set in the underappreciated middle of California, where farms, ranches and vineyards blanket the valleys and hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
As those ranches disappeared, so did the local economies that made America’s cattle country strong.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Some dairy farms send calves out to third-party calf ranches for rearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
In Philadelphia, in San Francisco, in the cow towns and ranches where they eventually made a home, they mourned those who died that day.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
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Others at the town hall, however, expressed fury that the two remaining ranching families were now trying to upend the deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Eleven of 13 historic ranching families would leave and be made whole for their losses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The show depicts the power struggles between patriarch John Dutton III, his children, the locals, and the outsiders seeking to change their bucolic ranching way of life.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Making beef affordable again will only happen by rebuilding the domestic U.S. ranching base.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
To Ranzi's surprise, in his home state of Acre—Brazil's westernmost region, a ranching center—PRONAPABA discovered half a dozen large circular ditches carved into the newly cleared land.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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