ranch
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"Gus" is one of the world's most complete T. rex skeletons -- with 183 fossilized bones -- and was discovered on a cattle ranch in South Dakota in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Since the 1990s, Graham had lived in a one-story white-brick ranch in a wooded subdivision on a peninsula of Lake Hartwell, one of several man-made lakes in the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
They taste a little like ranch crackers, a little like garlic bread and a lot like the kind of thing people will keep returning to by the handful.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Then Orchid moved to town, lured by a sprawling ranch for her four horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
East is the ranch driveway, which gradually becomes a winding road, descending, leading to town, thirty miles away.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Some dairy farms send calves out to third-party calf ranches for rearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
When it came to buying ranches, “price never really got in the way for Ted,” Taylor said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
A conservationist, Turner owned and operated 13 ranches that were home to roughly 45,000 bison, Turner Enterprises said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
She said cattle herds were at lows not seen since the 1950s and that the industry had lost more than 100,000 ranches in the last 10 years.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
And north of Pando is the Brazilian state of Acre, which is also lightly inhabited, but which has seen much of its forest removed to create cattle ranches.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
Wegis and her husband, Jim, have been running their family farm since 1979 near lands where his ancestors homesteaded and ranched in the 1800s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
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
Robert Krentz Jr.’s family had ranched in the parched area around Douglas for decades.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 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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Making beef affordable again will only happen by rebuilding the domestic U.S. ranching base.
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
Just within the past two centuries, cattle and sheep brought in for ranching — and then later elk and deer for hunting — ate up the island’s shrubs, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
But the New Mexico State Land Commission cancelled the leases in September 2019 after the office determined that Epstein had used the tract as a privacy buffer - not for ranching or agriculture.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
The freezing-cold winter had killed three-quarters of all the cattle that roamed the Badlands, and ranching turned out to be a money-losing venture for him.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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