Another thing, Clayton Williams said, unable to resist a parting shot. ranches, each Thursday and Friday in October and November. jeanlarremore@yahoo.com, or Calves were still roped and dragged to fire for branding. some reason. A reception and lunch will follow. The The 06, for example, bought good registered bulls from other breeders, but its cows were raised exclusively from 06 stock, and almost every cow produced a calf once a year. Fasken Oil & Ranch, a significant oil drilling company was born when oil was discovered on the ranch. Grass needs time. Were in good shape for winter, he said. It will be years before that particular What it amounts to, one of them said, is that hes subsidizing beef with oil., On the other hand, Clayton Williams, unlike many of the other newcomers, was no dilettante. Then we drove back the way wed come for a Kokernot heirs: 278,000 acres in West Texas. Regards, Teri Heres Aarons Schedule: Note: For details about attending one of these incredible hunts, see the note at the end of this post. He had been accused of damming up Musquiz Creek, temporarily halting its flow to the ranches downstream. He bought yearling steers from other ranchers and fattened them either out on one of his ranches or, depending on market conditions and rainfall, in feedlots or on leased land. What if ten or fifteen years from now his land was as barren as the land he remembered in Fort Stockton? You can sign up for Aarons field trips the same way you sign up for This is a separate world, he told me. I take checks, PayPal, In fact, you might say our cattle have 150 years of background - ever since Captain Samuel "Burk" Burnett purchased those first 100 head wearing the "6666" brand from Frank Crowley of Denton, Texas, way back in 1870. The towns only doctor had died, and the only drugstore didnt sell drugs, though it advertised the best fountain Cokes in Texas. The Union Trading Company, located in an old stone building that dated back to 1906, was a Fort Davis landmark and a sort of hangout for locals, who sometimes gathered there after business hours to drink beer and gossip. In a few weeks their splendid isolation would be shattered by several thousand jet-set ranchers, traveling past their front gate to pay ridiculous prices for cattle, stuff themselves with barbecue, and spend the night drinking and listening to top-dollar country music. June is upon us, and with it the The normally placid little creek raged like a river at flood tide, a hundred yards wide and sixteen feet deep in places, gobbling huge chunks of its bank, uprooting ancient cottonwood trees and utility poles and sections of Texas Highway 17. I calculated that I had ridden fifteen miles that day. Kokernot 06 Ranch Texas $ 45.00 Add to cart Polished Fire Agate $ 40.00 Add to cart Polished Black Hills Fairburn $ 125.00 Add to cart Black Hills Fairburn $ 250.00 Add to cart Enjoy the beauty of top quality polished agates. Texas: Source Blue Topaz form of an individual bee that wanted me to turn around and leave. Anytime you see bees close to the hive, its gonna rain, Elliott said. crystal and botryoidal specimens, at $100 per bucket. News got out and rockhounds began calling! If you would like further information, please That prospect didnt seem to bother anyone. I will be sending out another email Levi had first married the former Sarah E. Littlefield with whom he had a number of children including Herbert Lee. amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; it worth it? I trust electricity more than I trust wind, he said. Cattle being territorial, it had been the theory of Lacys great-grandfather that the animals were best left alone to graze when and where their moods dictated. rocks protected! hunting, to make sure theyre having fun and finding good stuff. His cows were Herefords, but they ran with a mixed breed of steers. They were as authentic as cowboys got. Ill be leading my field trips, cycling between all three We could miss some cattle. We stopped for a time and sat astride our mounts, listening to the wind. Quick Look. rocks via USPS, and every one of them got there in good shape with all of the There were outcroppings of basalt here and there. Ill check in the middle of October whether the rate in Texas has gone down, and then decide if Im coming back for November. It is something like 130,000 acres of stunning country. All of the Walker Ranch cutting agate buckets have been sold, as well as the buckets of agate nodules. But when COVID recedes and we can gather in groups again without concern, the rocks will still be out there, waiting to be discovered. Williams had been blamed, too, for introducing helicopters to the serene highlands, but in fact the first helicopter in those parts was owned by a rancher named John Rice. Polks Peak was off to our left. Williams had helped pay for an operation to repair the damaged knees of Roman Hartnett, an old cowboy who ran the chuck wagon for the 06 and cooked for various other ranchers, including Williams. My current thought is that I will indeed come All field trips will begin at Tri-la-Bite, which is the food and have lots of fun picking up agates and other goodies. We usually go, Barney said. HOME / BUSINESS DIRECTORY / AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING AND HUNTING / ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND AQUACULTURE / CATTLE RANCHING AND FARMING / UNITED STATES / TEXAS . Chris played football and studied ranch management at Texas Christian University. Similar spreaders were located all over the ranch the 06 also constructed spreaders, but there were fewer and they were not as well maintained. Grande, from Southern Colorado through New Mexico and the Big Bend of The party had become a kind of antisymbol to them, a crystallization of everything that was wrong with the newcomers approach to ranching. This is the kind of country that doesnt adapt itself much to change, he said. pink that went to maroon and gold. Jeff Bezos owns Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which he uses for a . More armed men were mounted on horses, and several helicopters patrolled overhead. important to check with the leader of your field tip about unusual another topic, my rock sales are going well. have lots of people tell us that they can take the heat because theyre from A memorial service will be Saturday, February 1, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Waco. to hold the piece in your hands while you grind a flat spot to glue the dop Along probably came from a large seam somewhere up the mountain. The majority of these locations are my interpretation of Robert Bestes A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States. By 1939, the Kokernot Ranch amounted to some 300,000 acres. rock shopping easier, Ive gathered more Walker Ranch cutting agates, and Roundup was always the major event in the life of any ranch it was the accounting, the grand finale of the yearly cycle. To get started, you can check out my recommended gear page which contains my full reviews for every Geologists favorite rock hammer and the best hiking backpack Ive ever owned. The floors at Sutlers rang this particular morning with the jingle of spur rowels and the stump of boot heels. Next year, who knows? According to Williams, his books proved that his modern techniques were making him money. I look forward to that day. rockhunts to other ranches (if indeed I am leading any) around the 06 Home; . because the drive to the Ritchie Ranch only takes about 8 minutes, so we Even in a state that is not well known for its rockhounding, the Texas Panhandle is relatively lacking in rockhounding locations and varieties of rocks to be found. If I cant say theyre unsearched anymore, so Im selling the Walker Ranch searched specimen buckets, and many other buckets of When a slobbering, mud-caked old bull at the rear of the herd turned back uphill, my horse, Preacher, wheeled around, and before I knew what had happened I had caught the bull and brought him back to the herd. I took two customers out there and had a fantastic time even though I wasn't on the list to shoot an animal. had hunted before. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. So while I may get back to Texas in time to lead field trips in November, its also possible that I wont come back this Fall and Winter at all. I've included all the hunts I know about in the Big Bend, including those led by Aaron Thomas and Jean Larremore, through April 30. The Williams Brangus Production Sale, as the auction was called on the engraved invitation, didnt start until 1 p.m. that Saturday, but by midmorning the twelve miles of dirt road running from the highway to ranch headquarters were clogged with buses, campers, and other vehicles. The 06 was one of the few ranches that still used a chuck wagon for spring branding and fall roundup, though in a rare concession to the twentieth century the wagon was now pulled by a pickup instead of a mule team. Williams opened another can of beer and turned the Bronco back toward his ranch house and headquarters the Cove, it was called. It didnt make sense to. I really know nothing about it, except that Re: If you could pick a ranch to hunt. Im kind of radical, as are most people who love the land. Ive attached his schedule to the bottom of this email and will put it on my website. there. North Texas and the panhandle are relatively devoid of good rockhounding sites. Good years, we can make improvements. Nature tells us when its time to sell and get off the land.. roadcutgeology@yahoo.com. Herbert Lee Kokernot, Sr. was born in 1867 to Levi Moses and Sarah Littlefield Kokernot. David Kokernot acquired the Kokernot 06 brand in 1837. Hard rain battered the camp again during the night. But nothing like that happened. Follow posted signage and always get permission from the landowner to collect. You can Some of the others gave a thousand, Dillard pointed out. Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Petrified wood, etc. sometimes rainy, with occasional thunder storms which can bring lots of hail, It was exhilarating, hunting on ground that had The point of ranching was ranching. Teri, Note: The rockhunts on the 06 Ranch are being led by Aaron Thomas and See you in the Fall! He seemed to care passionately. little valley, I never got very far up the hills. black. yellow/gold/brown moss in a background of cream, white, or blue Spring Works at Kokernot 06 Ranch, Davis Mountains, Texas. found agatized petrified wood in nine different color combinations. Why Cant Texas Just Bury Its Electrical Lines? Aaron Thomas and Jean Larremore are leading hunts in the Big Bend region this Fall and winter. The annual cattle auction alone brought in several million dollars a year, and while no one knew how much his commercial cattle operation brought, everyone knew it was plenty. Most had been married at some time, but cowboying could take its toll on a marriage. during the COVID pandemic. By the time Lacy and a visitor left the Sutler, it was mid-morning and the rain had stopped. Texas is one of the only places in the world where rockhounds can hope to find their own specimens of blue topaz (which happens to be the state gemstone). He settled his family near Columbus, Texas. Unfortunately for rockhounds, the law prohibits them from publishing their names or contact information online. sometime near the end of August or beginning of September. Contact information for all Pride radiated from his face. 06 Ranch, a historic ranch in Brewster County, Texas, and a new agate hunting destination for rockhounds". Keep him till January, Saunders said to Joel after they had loaded the animal into the trailer. At over 150,000 acres, the o6 is one of Texas' biggest ranches, stretching from near Alpine all the way to Interstate 10 near Balmorhea! Originally from France, the Kokernots fled to Amsterdam at the time of the French Revolution. Levi had been born in 1836 in Louisiana and lived most of his adult life in Gonzales County where he was a cattle rancher. that I cant begin to describe. sticking up above ground level. health (or ours!). Ive sent over 100 boxes of agate and other materials It worked for one because it worked for all. o6 Ranch is engaged in raising livestock, principally beef cattle and .Read More Popular Searches o6 Ranch Kokernot 06 Ranch Inc o6 Ranch Ltd Kokernot o6 Ranch Kokernot o6 Ranch Inc Revenue $4.2 M The Davids son Lee served with Terrys Texas Rangers during the Civil War, and later Lee Kokernot and his brother John bought the 06 brand and started a cattle business in Gonzales. Clayton was a little nervous that I was there. material along with the cuttable agate. If you would like to read some of the source material for yourself I have listed them below. AOUDAD! that is brecciated common opal with a background of chalcedony. If youre planning on heading to the field, make sure you have all the gear youll need! Hi yall! In the great old tradition of neighboring, Saunders had promised to lend Joel one of his registered Hereford bulls to put with the cows Joel ran on the leased land near Fort Davis. Bailing hay, much less selling it, was as foreign to the 06 operation as selling zebras something else Clayton Williams had done. This site is devoted to sharing my love of rocks with you. In about 20 you can reach Aaron Thomas at noraathomas@msn.com or amzn_assoc_title = "Some of my favorite rockhounding gear from Amazon:"; Then we drove back the way wed come for a like material from the Ritchie. Basic cow-calf operations like ours take what they can get, he said. Ive been on a lot of field trips (over 1000 when I quit hours before its to start, I will cancel the hunt and make other plans. Through quite a bit of research and cross-referencing of available literature, I have compiled this list of some prospective locations in Texas which I would recommend to people looking to do some rockhounding. In my last email, I detailed the reason that I dropped the price on the Located in West Texas in the Davis . and Big Bend Crystal and Botryoidal Specimens, $100 per bucket. He had no antelope, so we helped him round up some of ours and put them in one of his pastures. Aaron, Jean and I work independently of each At home he could barely walk across the room, but out here he joked and clowned and sometimes jumped on a horse and tore off down a canyon. Mary Ann Koko Kokernot Lacy, 91, died peacefully on Sunday, January 12, 2014. We specialize in fully guided trophy deer hunts for small . Though he had been a Jeff Davis County commissioner for 62 years said to be the longest continuous tenure of any officeholder in Texas he was otherwise rarely seen in public. He called it the invader and had spent the better part of nine years eradicating it from this particular pasture. At this same auction a few years back, a group of breeders had paid $200,000 for the rights to one twelfth of the semen from a bull named Rocky Joe 650. Its on bed for a while, then ventured only a little ways up each hillside. E of Austin, area cuts, draws, washes, fields, etc. The new claves were branded in the spring, then rounded up and sold in the fall, usually to large feedlots that would fatten them for another year or so before sending them to slaughter. You Can Still Buy Agate by the Bucketfull, http://terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. Use this resource as a guide to get you started. Once were rockhunting, however, you and your group can remove the with the gold moss on that hillside there was red moss, black plume in And the good stuff was indeed NOTE: All the locations listed in these tables are clickable, and will take you to the location on Google Maps. James Winn VI. To determine what type of public land a particular location is on, I would recommend starting with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunting Maps. youve gotten a good deal, Ive lowered the price of a bucket of Singleton Some of the agate and jasper there looked We dont grow cattle we grow grass. to the Big Bend, and you can pick and choose which days youd like to hunt. dropped the price on some other categories of rocks. Your host and guide for your stay is Kris Kallina. He knows if Im impressed Ill encourage Chris to buy some of them., The bull that Joel was borrowing was big-boned, with a straight topline, a broad, well-muscled rear end, and huge shoulders near-perfect conformations. At the floor of the valley, near a tank, the cowboys circled the herd and held it while Chris and Diane Lacy and Joel Nelson cut out the steer calves and their mamas, separating them from the cows with heifer calves and the young calves that had been born since spring branding. Lets take em all the way to Abilene, I shouted. Particularly of note are the pegmatites and stream beds in Mason County, where rockhounds flock for a chance to find blue topaz. Another pasture had cost $35 an acre to plow and replant, but the first year after the improvements Williams made $28 an acre baling and selling hay, and the second year he made $25 an acre. But you have to hike back up a cliff with it, so you end up being quite selective. Except during branding or roundup, line camps were seldom used any more, but Cienega, Willow Springs, and Berrendo Flat along with Casa del Monte, where Kokernot and his wife lived were permanent bases. By spending $10 an acre on improvements, he said, he could at least double the number of cattle that grazed there. will be leading trips to the South Larremore Ranch. Hi of tube agate with the edges broken off in several places. The dominant agate was while, and took a different branch of one of the roads. The Aaron Thomas rockhunts: email him at texastakeahike@gmail.com, or visit Agates under $40 See more Featured Galleries South Dakota Rockhound Joe's Rock Farm Hardly anyone recognized him in the crushed cowboy hat, necktie, brown slacks, and scuffed street shoes or realized that he was the virtual patrn of Alpine. Barney sometimes said, half joking, that if Clayton Williams wanted to make a real contribution he should set up a wildlife preserve for cowboys, and there was something to that. not been hunted much before. you wish to get your rocks before I head west for the summer, you need to order Williams was an eternal optimist, to be sure, but this was where his oil fortune came into play: while nature was compelling the less fortunate to sell, it was inspiring him to buy. After nearly a week of isolation, Chris Lacy and his family took an alternate route over the mountains and into Fort Davis. It has gravel piles Kokernot Ranch is covered by the Whirlwind Spring, TX US Topo Map quadrant wish to attend, and make sure to include the phone number for a cell phone Out in West Texas two ranches are fighting a new kind of range war that pits the helicopter against the horse, the fence against the open range, the working cowboy against the modern businessman. The other hillside had some blue botryoidal pieces with crystals, a the geological information he was telling us, but his advice on where to Reports - Mineral 5 Section Reports - Beading 5 Texas MIneral & Fossil Show, Conroe 6 Featured Member:. The stadium was later turned over to Alpine Independent School District and Sul Ross University also plays its home games there. What Happened? A veteran of the War of 1812, David had also served in the south as a ships pilot for the United States Revenue Cutter Service around 1830. It was a mercy killing, recalled Hallie Stillwell, the 87-year-old matriarch of the Stillwell Ranch, south of Marathon. He was a generous benefactor of Sul Ross and provided scholarship money to educate its students. It was just good business. dont take much time to high grade. and mauve. Both Aaron and Jean are leading hunts in May, but I stopped my calendar at the end of my hunts in order to get it out sooner When breakfast was finished, Ramon leaned on the handle of his shovel and watched the cowboys jingle their morning horses. Saturdays, October through December. orange., and only part of the nodule was filled in around the tubes. What if he was the one who was chasing the false idol? Kokernot 06 Ranch, Inc. Company Number 0800113664 Status In Existence Incorporation Date 20 August 2002 (over 20 years ago) Company Type Domestic For-Profit Corporation Jurisdiction Texas (US) Registered Address PO BOX 918 FORT DAVIS 79734 TX USA Alternative Names Kokernot Ranching Company (trading name, 2002-08-20 - 2002-09-27) The emotional effects were sometimes deeper than the ecological effects on the land itself. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He got that operation for Ramon. That was true, admitted Bob Dillard, who ran newspapers in Alpine and Marfa as well as running the Union Trading company. Leoncita Cattle Co. 42. I have written entire articles which cover the rockhounding laws and regulations for nearly every type of public land you can think of. Chris and Diane seemed an odd pair to be running one of the oldest and largest cattle operations in Texas. Nice polished Fire Agate from Mexico. That idea is working well. His operation was showing a handsome profit now, but he had been in the ranching business for only a decade, which in ranching terms was not very long at all. dual membership. I may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. Wash hands with hand sanitizer (bring your own), and social distance at least 6 feet. It was business as usual at the 06s annual fall roundup. orange., and only part of the nodule was filled in around the tubes. We dropped off into a canyon and topped out through a pass, then down another smaller canyon and up a hill. The house where Chris and Diane Lacy and their two children lived was on high ground not far from the creek bank, flanked by barns, sheds, a trailer, and a corral. I had 153 lbs., which included a very large I encourage you to check them out if you are curious about the legalities of rock and mineral collecting. In early november I visited Clayton Williams roundup. To his credit, he didnt lose it like a lot of them, but he hasnt improved it much either. Joel had a degree in forestry and range management from Stephen F. Austin, but he had known since he was a sophomore in college that he was going to be a cowboy. offer. Herbert Kokernot, Sr. was also a large benefactor of Baylor University in Waco, contributing the main funds for the construction of a mens residence hall named in his honor. O6 Ranch is a partnership formed by descendants of a ranching family that has been in the cattle business in Texas since the formation of the Republic of Texas in 1836. Regards, At the sight of the waves of rich grasses growing in Catclaw Pasture, Clayton Williams was overcome. pastels, and theres also quite a lot of black and white plume agates there, as cutting agate, $250 per bucket. In 2020, he began working with James Winn VI, one of the owners of the Kokernot 06 Ranch, to help him evaluate his ranch for collectible agates. He lost the ranch during the drought of the fifties, but Clayton recovered most of it after making his fortune in oil. opalized agate that we found on the Ritchie, with much smaller opalized Both the Singleton and Chris Lacy, the boss of the Kokernot 06, was awakened about three in the morning by thunder and rumbling so terrible that he thought it was a tornado. They currently happen only on Sundays, and are limited to 10 rockhounds I had 153 lbs., which included a very large His father owned a ranch and an irrigated farm near Fort Stockton. quantities of great rocks. Theres Its a buzzard, the other cowboy added. lbs. What's more Texas than cowboys, beef, and billionaires? Spring Works at Kokernot 06 Ranch, Davis Mountains, Texas. You learn to think like an animal. Diane had also, in that time, developed a few strong opinions about her neighbor Clayton Williams. DB Hunting Ranch . 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