Yesterday we went to Kingsville to tour the King Ranch. It is an 825,000 acre working ranch with cattle, horses, and various crops. A tour bus took us on a 1 1/2 hour trip through a portion of the ranch. We drove by the huge, beautiful house but the bus is not allowed to stop so we could only get photos of the house from the bus. I was able only to get the porch area of the house.
The story behind Richard King and the history of the ranch is very interesting (King-Ranch.com if you are interesting in reading about it). In 1830 Richard King, at the age of 11, was living in New York when he stowed away on a ship going south. In the mid 1800's he started buying up land. He died from cancer when he was 60 and his wife continued running the ranch along with family members.
I was able to get a pretty good photo of the Texas Longhorn but they only keep a few head for historical purposes.
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