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The price of cattle rose up to $75 a head (around $1,493 today). [5] Ranchers could turn a profit driving cattle from as far as Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to California even though the Chiricahua Apaches took many cattle. [6] The ranchers would drive the cattle up California's Central Valley.
3.3.2 California. 3.3.3 Colorado. 3.3.4 Florida. ... This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either ...
Hollister Ranch is a 14,400-acre (58 km 2) gated residential community amidst a working cattle ranch on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California. The dramatic bluffs, isolated beaches and terraced grasslands are within the last undeveloped stretch of Southern California coastline .
The Joel McCrea ranch house is a rare and very successful departure from Byers' usual period revivalism into the realm of the informal California Ranch style, just emerging in Southern California. [3] The ranch is at the bottom of the Norwegian Grade, a road built by settlers around 1900. [4]
The company owns over 270,000 acres (1,093 km 2) in the southern San Joaquin Valley, Tehachapi Mountains, and Antelope Valley. It is the largest contiguous piece of private property in the state. Tejon Ranch’s agricultural operation primarily grows almonds, pistachios, and wine grapes, along with some alfalfa and the occasional row crop.
The Reagans sold that ranch to a movie company and it is now part of Malibu Creek State Park. [2] [3] The Reagans then bought the ranch from the Corneliuses for about $527,000 in 1974 (equal to approximately $3,256,000 today [1]) when his second term as governor of California was nearing an end. The estate contains a pond called Lake Lucky ...
The early 19th century adobe ranch house still stands today, surrounded by its historic gardens designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Florence Yoch & Lucile Council, [12] all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. The Rancho Los Alamitos house and grounds are a museum which presents the history of the rancho era, the ...
The El Sur Ranch, located on the Big Sur coast of California, has been continuously operated as a cattle ranch since 1834. The approximately 7,100 acres (2,873 ha) ranch straddles Highway 1 for 6 miles (9.7 km) from the mouth of the Little Sur River to the mouth of the Big Sur River and Andrew Molera State Park .