King Ranch, Inc., Houston, Texas, announced April 9 that it has acquired a 50% stake in CobaltCattle, the nation’s fourth-largest cattle feeding operation with six feedyards in Colorado, Kansas and ...

The birthplace of American ranching, King Ranch, comes together with another Lone Star institution in 2012. A representative of King Ranch said that after years of invitations, plans are under way for ...

CATTLE thieves started to plague the ranges of Southwest Texas immediately after the end of the Civil War. The stealing began as a consequence of the severe winter of 1863-1864, when huge numbers of ...

Editors’ note: As we approach our fiftieth anniversary, in February 2023, we will, every week, highlight an important story from our past and offer some perspective on it. From Texas Monthly’s ...

Every Texan knows the tales of Pecos Bill, the mythical great-granddad of all cowboys. Pecos Bill was born in Texas (naturally, say Texans) and raised by coyotes. Rattlesnakes hid when they heard him ...

Ranching ultimately comes down to managing land and water. The King Ranch is blessed with much of the former and almost none of the latter. Before it was divided among Richard and Henrietta King’s ...

KINGSVILLE — King Ranch is so iconic that it gets regular nods from the television hit “Yellowstone.” “Look at the King Ranch down in Texas …” patriarch John Dutton says in one episode. “They made ...

Ford is finally bringing its wildly popular upmarket King Ranch trim to the 2021 Explorer. The addition of what Ford calls “the most refined Explorer yet” marks 20 years of collaboration between the ...

The iconic King Ranch logo is well known across America, especially in Texas, its home. It’s wavy W design is displayed across a wide range of products (Ford trucks, clothing, saddles, and even ...

IN THE year 1853 when Richard King paid $300 for his first parcel of land, the settlers who had come to Texas from the east and north were farming, not ranching. To be sure, Texans north of the Nueces ...