ranch
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It was named The Ponderosa after the ranch in the hit US Western television series, Bonanza.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Hidden Valley is selling a “spooky” black version of its ranch dressing for Halloween.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
They had just bought 640 acres for an ostrich ranch, which ultimately didn’t work out, though they kept some of the birds as pets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
For me, this is often cottage cheese ranch or a punchy vinaigrette — mostly because Future Me is considerably more enthusiastic about eating vegetables when there is something good to drag them through.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
Hale found work as a cowboy on a ranch.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Ken Boulay, the CEO of the Turtle Island Restoration Network, said it’s time to move forward and imagine what the park could be like without cattle and private ranches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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
Jim Locke, 50, who ranches near Miami, Texas, has been a volunteer for 24 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As those ranches disappeared, so did the local economies that made America’s cattle country strong.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Some time back the other members of the squad that walked so smartly from the school had turned into the various little canyons and taken the wagon roads to their own home ranches.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Park visitors, much to their delight, often encounter the horses while driving or hiking in the rolling, colorful Badlands where a young, future President Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
Mormons later farmed and ranched on the lush landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2020
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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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
The U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Cheyenne, a city of 66,000 nicknamed “The Magic City of the Plains,” was built on rail, ranching, oil and gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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