Texas ranches
Lone Star herds
Large agricultural properties in Texas devoted primarily to raising cattle, though some focus on horses, sheep, or game animals.
Texas ranches are often vast—some spanning hundreds of thousands of acres—reflecting the state's history of open-range cattle drives and land grants.
The term evokes images of working cowboys, oil wealth, and sprawling landscapes: They bought a Texas ranch as a getaway property.
Many historic ranches like the King Ranch have become cultural landmarks.
- corralFenced livestock enclosure
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- mesquiteThorny desert legume
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- chuckwagonMobile frontier cooking station
branding · spurs · barn · cowboy · horses · hill country · brush country · horseback riding · quarter horse · longhorns · windmill · vaquero · saddle up · cattle baron · river basin · rodeo · arid climate · cattle drives
- ranchingcattle, rancher, ranchers, ranching, cattle ranching
Texas ranchesCalifornia vineyards
Western wine-growing estates
Texas ranchesurban sprawl
Uncontrolled peripheral development
industrial parks · city blocks · high-rise apartments · shopping malls