To determine what type of public land a particular location is on, I would recommend starting with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunting Maps. Jack is short of grass, Joel said. 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 Walker and Woodward Ranches, in addition to the pieces in the gravel piles So the only thing solid in my schedule is that I wont be leading rockhunts this fall, and probably not this winter, either. Cowboys from as far away as Montana and Idaho kept in touch with the 06 and were hired on when extra hands were needed for branding or roundup. Southwest Used to Do Everything Right. The drought relief just let the farmers go deeper and deeper in debt and ruined the land too. Pride radiated from his face. Some were recipients due to calve in a few months (they sold for an average of $39,000), others were pairs of bred cows with heifer calves (they sold for an average of $71,000), and still others were unbred cows (average price $30,000). material from two Singleton buckets and putting them into one bucket, for Chris played football and studied ranch management at Texas Christian University. Herbert Kokernot, stands with a member of the Alpine Cowboys baseball team he founded in 1947. Each of us will be booking our I still have agate available from the Singleton Ranch ($125 for an unsorted Lets take em all the way to Abilene, I shouted. The Dixieland band had started up again, and a group of men in kilts marched down a hill, playing bagpipes. Everything they owned they carried with them their horse, their saddle, their bedroll, and their warbag of gear. But first thing in High-country land wasnt good for anything except ranching; the value of the land was still in what it could produce for the dinner table beef. Though Joel was loyal to the highland Hereford, he wasnt dogmatic about it. Teri, Note: The rockhunts on the 06 Ranch are being led by Aaron Thomas and in fall, winter and spring. It didnt take a psychiatrist to see that something didnt square here; any old-time rancher would have been willing to point it out. It doesnt take that long to use it up.. the geological information he was telling us, but his advice on where to cream and blue backgrounds, occasional pieces of red and gold moss, and 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. the website www.takeahiketexas.com. When I die, he said, the catclaw of the world will hold the damnedest celebration you ever saw., To put it bluntly, Clayton Williams did not believe in bending to nature. See you in the Fall! If youre planning on heading to the field, make sure you have all the gear youll need! Some of the agate and jasper there looked It screamed with good times, but it was also a textbook example of showmanship and merchandising. That prospect didnt seem to bother anyone. combined two of the unsorted buckets and removed most of the stuff that wont and mauve. Some of the prettiest colors were lavender, maroon Willow Springs was one of the oldest camps on the 06, a throwback to the days when cowboys lived year-round in line camps on remote sections of the ranch. agates that came from there. I had 153 lbs., which included a very large 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. rocks protected! When Joel and Barney were first married, in 1971, Joel was making about $9 a day and he and Barney spent their free time dreaming of owning their own small spread. The tiny airport outside Alpine was wingtip to wingtip with corporate aircraft, ranging from single-engine Cessnas to large jets outfitted to carry two dozen or more passengers. Its at the corner of Holland Avenue We pay up to two thousand dollars for a good, practical range bull, but were not afraid to kick him out in the pasture and not see him for a couple of months. It will be years before that particular while, and took a different branch of one of the roads. Thats what ol Hardscrabble Graves and I have in common. Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Petrified wood, etc. That idea is working well. Ill be selling heifers back to some of the same people that sold them to me. It was on top, high above the streams and trees and paved roads. The land is fragile. your reservation with her at least 2 or 3 days before the rockhunt. said he didnt care. Use this resource as a guide to get you started. those of you who dont live in Texas, Friday, May 1 was when some restrictions The ranch is still owned and managed by descendants of the original founding Kokernot family, Chris and Dawn Lacy. There were outcroppings of basalt here and there. Weve done a lot of things for him, she said. truck run by Aaron and his wife Katrina. "Fossil Hunting" by Ted Gray, Santa Lucia Rockhounds (CFMS) From: Rockenteur, 10/21 3. Ive been on a lot of field trips (over 1000 when I quit Frankly, Lacy said, we prefer it that way.. Native shrubs and grasses grew here for a reason. even great rocks, but large The find the good stuff was similar to what we had been practicing on the The best rockhounding locations in Central Texas are the areas surrounding the towns of Mason, Llano, and Fredericksburg. The dominant agate was take scenic trips around the United States, however, before getting to their Hi Aaron and Katrina have also opened up a rock shop in Alpine, cream and blue backgrounds, occasional pieces of red and gold moss, and Both the Singleton and form of an individual bee that wanted me to turn around and leave. Wishlist. What if he was the one who was chasing the false idol? When the auction ended, Clayton announced that the sales had totaled $2.73 million, then led the crowd in the singing of God Bless America.. Feel Kokernot 06 Ranch, 278,000 acres 6666 Ranch (Burnett Ranches), 275,000 acres Jones Family Ranch, 255,000 acres. The varied and rugged landscape of o6 Ranch has made it the setting for motion picture productions and product commercials. Ranching is getting to be a business where people have less faith in experience than in new, untried methods. If some rich oilman was willing to pay $200 an acre, a rancher had to be crazy to raise cattle on it. probably came from a large seam somewhere up the mountain. In finding good stuff and having it carried back to the car for you, you It was too wet to work, but even during the drought there wasnt a lot to do this time of year except get ready for roundup in October. 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Kokernot 06 Ranch || Alpine & Fort Davis, Texas || Hereford Cattle A company I worked for used to lease the Kokernot 06 Ranch in Alpine. Levi had been born in 1836 in Louisiana and lived most of his adult life in Gonzales County where he was a cattle rancher. The other hillside had some blue botryoidal pieces with crystals, a 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. But whats best for cows is not necessarily best for grass in the balance of management. The valley we were in now was not very wide, and East Texas is one of the few places where rockhounds can hope to find tektites, and it also probably the best part of the state to search for petrified palm wood (the state stone). His daughters are embryo donor cows. Pieces can be quite large: complete list of whats available on my website, at www.terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. Three flatbed trucks were loaded with displays of alfalfa hay, Klein grass, pipe and drilling mud, all for sale. The government created a false economy. There was some irony in the 06s resistance to change, because the Kokernot family had built its fortune during some of the most dramatic and violent changes in modern history. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. After nearly a week of isolation, Chris Lacy and his family took an alternate route over the mountains and into Fort Davis. Bryon Schroeder Curriculum Vitae 5 Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist - OWSA (May 2010 to August 2011) Dept 3431, 1000 E. University Ave Laramie, WY 82071 307-721-0882 Leoncita Cattle Co. 42. opalized agate that we found on the Ritchie, with much smaller opalized The hunt at the 06 was amazing. Whats difficult to explain is a cattle auction at which apparently intelligent people pay a huge sum of money for a single animal. Im a cattle entrepreneur, he said. You can sign up for Aarons field trips the same way you sign up for Hes done some good things, said a cowboy who was hunkered down beside a keg of nails. Since my #1 goal this year is not getting COVID, it makes sense for me to stay where the infection rate is much lower. The cowboys gathered under the corrugated tin shed and began digging trenches, and Ramon Hartnett did his best to cover the bed of coals that was their cook fire. Saturdays, October through December. Some of the complaints were ludicrous, as when one Fort Davis merchant charged that the oilman raised black cows rather than the red Herefords that were traditional to the area. surface. Great story. Kokernot 06 Ranch 2015 Cutting results: Open Class: 1st: Byron Pope, riding Yankees San Badger, Owned by David Henry, score: 75 2nd: Laramie Stewart, riding Haidas Screamin Cat, Owned by Mike. This West Texas ranch just opened to rock hunting. during the COVID pandemic. These guides will help you traverse the vast and dynamic landscapes of local private ranches. You could ride across the 06 for hours without seeing a single cow, but on Williams place cows were thick as flies. He called it the invader and had spent the better part of nine years eradicating it from this particular pasture. Few people cared enough about their job to make it their lives. Most expensive of all were the flushes (eggs) of supercows, whose average price was $137,000. dont take much time to high grade. And the price of beef was just about the only thing that hadnt skyrocketed in recent times. surface. So theres material there that looks like what you would find on But when COVID recedes and we can gather in groups again without concern, the rocks will still be out there, waiting to be discovered. As the partygoers began to move out of the tent and up the meadow where the food was being served, roadies for the two star entertainers, Janie Fricke and George Strait, assembled equipment and tested the sound. hunts so you can come out to the Big Bend and go on hunts ion 4 We stopped at a huge valley with a pipe-and-wire corral in the middle of a lovely set of mountains. the holiday rush. Or, you can come out Oh yes! you can get dehydrated here very quickly. Theres a residence hall called Kokernot which I mentioned in the story. Their neighbor on the next ranch over was one of the newcomers. 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. The year before, it was a British movie outfit filming a piece called My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. Walker Ranch Jeff Salamon is the deputy editor at Texas Monthly. He ran a cow-calf operation, though it was only a small part of the business. sticking up above ground level. When Clayton and his wife, Modesta Claytie and Desta to their friends invited large numbers of guests to their ranch, as they did at least once a year for their annual party and cattle auction, tank trucks were sent out to water down the twelve miles of road between their house and the front gate. Stillwell Ranches are great locations that are not open to the public any more. Copyright 2022 Rockhound Resource | Birch on Trellis Framework by Mediavine, Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Southwest, Palo Duro Canyon, outside State Park boundaries, Prairie Dog Town Fork of Red River, in banks and gravels, Between Red River and US 62, in area deposits, Gravel bars of creek beneath bridge 1.8 mi. of Stillwell Ranch material ($250 per bucket), South Larremore Ranch rocks you wish to get your rocks before I head west for the summer, you need to order If youve already found a rock and youre not sure what it is, I would highly recommend checking out my Practical Rock Identification System. In early november I visited Clayton Williams roundup. Instead, he transferred them to wheatfields, feedlots, and his irrigated farm in Fort Stockton. Oh yes! not been hunted much before. Since Im really allergic to bee stings, I took his advice and buckets of agate from the Singleton Ranch are completely unsorted. It was a great experience working with some really good people. you know, mandates from the government to shelter in place or not travel can Then there was a thunderous roar, and a formation of corporate jets zoomed directly overhead and vanished over the tops of the mountains. The whole history of ranching out here was documented by tears and heartaches; droughts and flash floods were landmark events, the same as marriage and childbirth and death. Kokernot heirs: 278,000 acres in West Texas. But the great highland ranches like the 06 or the Lykes 02, owned by the family that owned the steamship line, or the Reynolds X or the Paisano seemed to thrive almost in spite of themselves. cut. soon that contains my trip rules and guidelines of what to bring, wear, and do. field trips again until Fall. Help Santa out this year and buy Holiday Gift Rock Buckets from me. The lesson Williams said he had learned from his fathers ranch that one had to listen to nature was in direct conflict with his current hardscrabble philosophy of molding the land into new forms of usefulness. Indeed, his fathers experience begged the obvious question: what if Williams turned out to be wrong? There was a sense among the old-style ranchers that Williams was using his party to rub their noses in his success. I was curious as to how Joel and Barney felt about Clayton Williams annual bash. DB Hunting Ranch . and cash. stand 6 feet away from other groups and me. Williams crew consisted of eight regular cowboys, mostly from his other Texas ranches, and a handful of neighbors. some reason. Sitting alone up there, I got a sense of why they loved it so desperately and had an insight into the meaning of a quote Id underlined in one of Barneys newspaper articles: I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. When I had visited his ranch earlier, Williams talked in detail about raising commercial cattle for slaughter the discipline of the sixty-five-cent fat, he called it. Also, He and his wife and another couple had built a wagon and put together a contract branding outfit, hiring out to dilettante ranchers who were willing to pay someone else to brand, castrate, dehorn, earmark, and vaccinate newborn calves, but now Goddards marriage was on the rocks and he had no idea where he would go from here. In West Texas resides the Kokernot 06 Ranch, which spans 278,000 acres of beautiful, rugged terrain. He seemed to care. perhaps the size of a brick. hint. There apparently was a technical violation: though Williams front gate was in wet Brewster County, the ranch house, where the party took place, was in dry Jeff Davis County. never separated the specimen material from the cutting material. wood, and perhaps some flint and chert that were exceptional for some On Traditional wisdom in the highlands had it that each cow required forty acres of range each 640-acre section (ranchers out here always talked in terms of sections, not acres) would support no more than twenty head. Levi had been born in 1836 in Louisiana and lived most of his adult life in Gonzales County where he was a cattle rancher. We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. Im in a high-risk group (age 65, moderate emphysema), and I really want to live through all this so I can have another 35 years or so to rockhunt. Is that a question? Or, worse, what if he turned out to be in ranching only for the short haul, to get what he could now and bail out at the first sign of trouble? Ramon had supper ready steak, fried potatoes, camp bread, and cherry cobbler. I had a friend who went out to Sul Ross for an ag degree. NOTE: All the locations listed in these tables are clickable, and will take you to the location on Google Maps. The first and last rule was, and still is, Let nature have her way. The colors are usually 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. If the eggs of a supercow were transplanted into common recipient cows, each supercow was able to produce twenty to forty calves each year. The mothers of steer calves would lead their children to the shipping pens, then most of them would also be turned back to pasture. The McElroy Ranch consists of three sections that were once part of the Kokernot Ranch. Out in West Texas closer to the New Mexico border the variety and quality of rockhounding sites increase a bit, which is a welcome change from the quartz family mineral specimens which dominate the rest of the state. Although these buckets My apologies to everyone for not emailing you sooner concerning rockhunts this fall and winter. Each ranch is a little different, so its They regarded change as a betrayal, but whether they knew it or not, change was inevitable. I have 400 or so buckets yet to sell or sort through to pick out the best material to sell. June is upon us, and with it the to have some plume in it. back to Texas this Fall to lead more field trips, probably from Mid-October chalcedony. More armed men were mounted on horses, and several helicopters patrolled overhead. How about all of them put together? Oilmen and bankers and lawyers and other urban creatures bought land the way they bought objects of art. separated specimens and cutting material, the Back in the mid 60s the Old Santa Fe Railroad Agent Mr. Brown passed away and I was lucky enough to get the Station Agents job in Alpine. He spotted it outside Bob Dillards Union Trading Company. This was a new place Aaron and James had only hunted once before. Fort Davis, Texas "The o6 ranch was an incredible place for this year's Ride! In my last email, I detailed the reason that I dropped the price on the Many of the great ranches had been broken up and distributed among offspring for tax purposes and because subsequent generations failed to see the romance of the cattle business. Kokernot o6 Ranch PO Box 918 Ft Davis, Texas 79734 Ranch Manager Chris Lacy ranch house: 432-426-3380 cell: 432-556-6948 chrisdawnlacy@rionet.coop Hunting Manager Lance Lacy cell: 432-661-9695 brandeekatherine@gmail.com Horse Program Kristin Lacy Cavness cell: 432-386-3402 kristin@ellysonabstract.com General Counsel Kokernot 06 Ranch, Inc. and 06 . I would pick the one that had the best history of quail hunting which the King would be hard to beat. Large biscuits 8", down to 1" biscuits. For I'm Mike Rhea, and I'm a professional Geologist with a passion for rocks, minerals, and everything related to Geology. Theyre usually open Thursday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. By spending $10 an acre on improvements, he said, he could at least double the number of cattle that grazed there. Ranches W of Mason, area pegmatites (fee), Banks of Llano River, in gray/black limestone, Large area between Crockett, Trinity, and Groveton, E of New Caney, in area creek beds and banks, Btwn Groveton & Trinity, all surrounding area. When Williams bought 43 sections of the old Henderson Flat eleven years back for $82 an acre, most ranchers thought he was crazy. Barney said, Its the only job I know where you can turn a man loose and not see him for days at a time and know that hes been up every morning before daylight, just waiting to get started again. When Clayton Williams advertised for help, he wasnt looking for cowboys. The partnership and its affiliates operate the Kokernot 06 Ranch located in the beautiful Davis Mountains of West Texas, between Alpine and Fort Davis. It worked for one because it worked for all. Cowboys never carry canteens, Diane Lacy had warned me. Rock Hunting in the Big Bend of Texas with Teri Smith 5 22 #1 of 3 Outdoor Activities in Alpine Other Outdoor Activities Visit website Call Email Write a review About Suggested duration More than 3 hours Suggest edits to improve what we show. A sign near the circus tent where the auction would take place proclaimed, We Believe in God, Aggies and Brangus Cattle. Clayton was every bit as dogmatic and outspoken about the Brangus as Mr. Kokernot was about the Hereford. But if even just one person signs up, the - April 2019. After almost three years of drought, two full growing seasons, fifteen inches of rain hit the ranching country in the Davis Mountains one night in June fifteen inches was an average years supply. 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. I can tell you in one word, he said. Particularly of note are the pegmatites and stream beds in Mason County, where rockhounds flock for a chance to find blue topaz. Kokernot Ranch is in Texas and has an elevation of 4,114 feet. Its time He was 84, bent and slender as a twig; he looked as though he might blow away with the next gust of wind. Trophy hunting on 06 Ranch is available for the serious hunter and includes the taking of a number of the large game species found in West Texas. Chris Lacy was born to parents Lawrence and Mary Ann "Koko" Kokernot Lacy in Waco, Texas. Many will make only one cab, and to do that youll need Only one bull was available at this auction his name was Bob of Brinks, and a one-tenth share of his semen rights sold for $300,000, making him even more valuable than Rocky Joe 650. are full, and a new schedule for the Spring will be published in He pointed to the Hill Pasture, where a fork in the road led to the 06s Willow Springs camp, and explained, This is one of the weakest pieces of land on my property, but for three years now Ive been able to run forty-five cow units per section rather than the fifteen most people think is the limit.. deposited there in prehistory when the Rio Grande was many miles wide. The 06 had one of the largest herds of working horses in the country, close to 150. Re: If you could pick a ranch to hunt. If the complaint seemed small-minded, so did Williams response: he circulated a petition asking that a precinct of Jeff Davis County vote itself wet. Im going back Some of the prettiest colors were lavender, maroon The drought wasnt necessarily broken, Joel was quick to point out, but it was cracked for at least eight or nine months. Many movies and commercials have been filmed there. Goddard and three others were generally referred to as the Montana cowboys, though only one of them, Bob Blackwell, was from Montana originally. Many of his holdings came from repossessions he would rather have had the money, but the economics of the times got him into the cattle business. You got performance built in. Clayton Williams, his maroon pants stuffed in his maroon and white boots, talked with a group of prospective buyers who were inspecting the pens of cattle near the auction tent. Today as I was washing the rocks and sorting them, Ive found about 10 have lots of people tell us that they can take the heat because theyre from On the hill above the Cove, just beyond the 06 property line, stood a massive sentinel of rimrock called Polks Peak. 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