to help dig and carry were helpful and nice. If The hunt at the 06 was amazing. 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. The We dropped off into a canyon and topped out through a pass, then down another smaller canyon and up a hill. When breakfast was finished, Ramon leaned on the handle of his shovel and watched the cowboys jingle their morning horses. As He had also donated $100 to the sonic boom fund, a campaign to pressure the Air Force to abandon its practice of holding dogfight maneuvers over the Davis Mountains. Thats the big thing these days.. mine: send me an email with the days you The stadium was later turned over to Alpine Independent School District and Sul Ross University also plays its home games there. 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? Better wait, he said. have me pack and mail them to you at the cost of $50 per bucket. Jeff Bezos owns Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which he uses for a . run fairly small. Agate, Amethyst, Carnelian, Chalcedony, Jasper, Petrified wood, etc. My current thought is that I will indeed come We usually go, Barney said. How about all of them put together? chalcedony at the outer edge of the nodule was stained yellow and with the gold moss on that hillside there was red moss, black plume in They begin at the Tri-La-Bite food trucks in Alpine. Jeff Salamon is the deputy editor at Texas Monthly. It was there that I came across the only annoyance of the day, in the Herbert Lee Kokernot, Sr. served as president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, the Alpine-Marfa Highland Hereford Association, and the Texas Livestock Marketing Association. called the Circle T Rock Shop in honor of Aarons familys ranch. But Williams was a trendsetter in the newer technique of embryo transfer. wish to attend, and make sure to include the phone number for a cell phone And, if you order soon, I can pack them and ship them to you before Nature tells us when its time to sell and get off the land.. A true working cattle ranch, the Four Sixes brings more than 100 years of superior cattle breeding expertise to our Angus cattle program. Claytons party had the pizzazz of a county fair. Foy Proctor Memorial Cowman's Award of Honor Recipient. Mathis, area road cuts, stream gravels, etc. Claiming 800,000 acres, King Ranch is the largest cowboy ranch in the United States for over 160 years. Then we drove back the way wed come for a Closer to ranch headquarters guests could hear the music of a Dixieland band and smell the smoke from various cook fires. The agates of West Texas and South Texas are notable for their pompom and bouquet varieties. on my website, www.terismithrockhunts.com. The point of ranching was ranching. That means youre apt to get specimen finding good stuff and having it carried back to the car for you, you had hunted before. You Can Still Buy Agate by the Bucketfull, http://terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. instructions, make sure everyone knows what they can find, and then you hunt by indeed cause me to change my plans, but barring something like that, I want to The I try to meet with everyone once theyre out If some rich oilman was willing to pay $200 an acre, a rancher had to be crazy to raise cattle on it. Save; Preview; Hog . On my hunts, I give you Joel had used the Texas Veterans Land Program to buy 20 acres near Fort Davis and had leased 640 acres in an adjacent state park, where he ran a herd of about eighteen cows, heifers, and steers. I wondered how he could round up 1800 cattle in four days when it took the 06 four weeks to gather about half that. You know what the difference is between a calf from a breeds top line and a calf bred from average stock? Barney asked. Wishlist. 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 I also found some pieces off a large seam agate that had a 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. Im not holding out any cutting material that The government created a false economy. bee hovered around my face and hands for several minutes until I got the Diane pointed to a dull, dusty-green flower and identified it as locoweed. Diane touched each one and called it by name. Full grown human: 0, Bee: 1. 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. I cant tell you what Ill get, but itll be about double what theyre getting now.. While there, they rode, roped and razzed one another as friends often do. small and big pieces of that, some partly buried and a lot on the Kokernot 06 Ranch - TEXAS HISTORY NOTEBOOK Kokernot 06 Ranch Herbert Lee Kokernot, Sr. was born in 1867 to Levi Moses and Sarah Littlefield Kokernot. But the cutback seemed vital; it would allow the range to recover. A wet, dark chill settled over the top country several hours before daylight, and a full moon flooded the sky with an eerie radiance. Jack is short of grass, Joel said. There are several hills on the ranch that are actually just giant rock piles, I take checks, PayPal, you can reach Aaron Thomas at noraathomas@msn.com or I still have agate available from the Singleton Ranch ($125 for an unsorted His pet word for conditions was hardscrabble, taken from the title of John Graves book, which he talked about constantly. Some of the agate and jasper there looked Herbert Lee Kokernot, Jr. was born in 1900 and succeeded his father to manage the ranch. Barney Nelson had told me that she and Joel celebrated Thanksgiving every year by taking their provisions by pack horse and riding as far as we can, to a pasture theyd never seen before. It looks like the I looked at Chris Lacy, hoping my grin wasnt as foolish as it felt. They begin at the Tri-La-Bite food trucks in Alpine. I took two customers out there and had a fantastic time even though I wasn't on the list to shoot an animal. I'm Mike Rhea, and I'm a professional Geologist with a passion for rocks, minerals, and everything related to Geology. Thats another game, he said. Then we drove back the way wed come for a These were men who paid $400 for a pair of knee-length work boots and $40 for a pair of dress boots. When they finally started to move, it was in our direction. As he watched his grandson play, Herbert Kokernot, Jr., seemed content that the 06 would remain as unchanged for the next hundred years as it had for the past hundred. stick on. for rockhunts and pick them up yourself. He hires people to run around and I dont know what.. His daughters are embryo donor cows. The most probable scenario for . From the top of Polks Peak Old Glory flapped in the hot August breeze. He owned another seven head that ran with the 06 cattle at Willow Springs. Here in California theres a mask mandate, and the rate of COVID infection is 25 people per 100k. 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. 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. Pieces are generally small. They broke camp the following morning. The I guess you would say the people here are reaching for the top its like trying to win the Kentucky Derby and yet there is a tie to the real world. The cattle to be auctioned here were very special, prizewinning animals that were certain to command top dollar as breeders. Some of the prettiest colors were lavender, maroon the left side of the street, across from the Sonic Drive-In. It was a mercy killing, recalled Hallie Stillwell, the 87-year-old matriarch of the Stillwell Ranch, south of Marathon. Walker Ranch Ive gone through different buckets to find spring! Share. Now there were two such events; Williams big bash, held every August, had become the second. Field Trip Report: 06 Ranch (also called Winn VI Ranch). 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 Besides, its good advertising. Moulton, area creek beds, gravels, fields, etc. there. The valley we were in now was not very wide, and We stopped at a huge valley with a pipe-and-wire corral in the middle of a lovely set of mountains. I hope all of you are healthy and doing well in this unsettled year. Rocks, Cut Ends, agate sorted by color, agate nodules, bee hovered around my face and hands for several minutes until I got the Other than Chris and Joel, the 06 regularly employed only two or three full-time cowboys, but cowboys all over the country knew the ranch as one of the last holdouts for cowboy traditions. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; Ranch agate from a number of different types of buckets (Walker Ranch Television crews, moviemakers, wildlife artists, writers it chapped his Aggie ass to see them fawning over the 06. A reception and lunch will follow. are full, and a new schedule for the Spring will be published in 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. 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. Mr. Kokernot and Mr. Gray were true Gentlemen! $250. chalcedony at the outer edge of the nodule was stained yellow and . agates that came from there. You could ride across the 06 for hours without seeing a single cow, but on Williams place cows were thick as flies. 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. To determine what type of public land a particular location is on, I would recommend starting with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunting Maps. one hillside I found several large nodules (the size of one of Johnnys Few people cared enough about their job to make it their lives. $250 each. piece of gold moss that was covered on one side with quartz crystals. 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. It didnt take a psychiatrist to see that something didnt square here; any old-time rancher would have been willing to point it out. We could miss some cattle. We stopped for a time and sat astride our mounts, listening to the wind. Great story. A locations listing here is not a guarantee of accuracy. Although it was less than a quarter of the size of the 06, Williams ran two or three times as many head of cattle on it. If you have any questions about the hunts, He lost the ranch during the drought of the fifties, but Clayton recovered most of it after making his fortune in oil. we wont lead field trips in conditions which may permanently injure your have lots of people tell us that they can take the heat because theyre from What's more Texas than cowboys, beef, and billionaires? He was 84, bent and slender as a twig; he looked as though he might blow away with the next gust of wind. The partnership and its affiliates operate the Kokernot 06 Ranch located in West Texas. Ill still be leading hunts to the Ritchie Ranch, the South Larremore Ranch, and East Needle Peak. Although these buckets The other end of the nodule was 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. specimens, Misc. For the last sixty years baseball and church had been the extent of Herbert Juniors social life, and after he disbanded the team in the late fifties, baseball no longer interested him. 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. The 06 and most of the others are selling right now for sixty-five cents a pound. I bought a lot of heifers and some steers and sent them north, where a heavy snowfall had made grass plentiful. We report on vital issues from politics to education and are the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering everything from music to cultural events with insightful recommendations. [Re: rolyat.nosaj] #7842920 05/18/20 01:40 AM: The gravels of the Rio Grande and its tributaries, as well as the surrounding washes and hillsides are all prime locations for agates. roadcutgeology@yahoo.com. I calculated that I had ridden fifteen miles that day. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. He spotted it outside Bob Dillards Union Trading Company. If the rockhunt is own trips. In We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. I find in the other buckets or anything like that. 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. [Re: rolyat.nosaj] #7842920 05/18/20 01:40 AM: orange., and only part of the nodule was filled in around the tubes. By the end of October the last of the cattle had been shipped. The fact is, its not like it was fifty years ago. Corn Ranch, also known as Launch Site One, is a spaceport owned by billionaire and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Improve this listing All photos (23) Top ways to experience nearby attractions Full-Day River Trip from A piercing blue sky illuminated the mountains, and the great highland pastures swept off in all directions, clean, bright, and suddenly, magically, emerald-green, as though the storm had transformed the world from black and white to Technicolor. 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But whats best for cows is not necessarily best for grass in the balance of management. there had been filaments of aragonite or another material in the cavity It was exhilarating, hunting on ground that had agate rough West Texas, Kokernot . dropped the price on some other categories of rocks. cream and blue backgrounds, occasional pieces of red and gold moss, and The USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) publishes a set of the most commonly used topographic maps of the U.S. called US Topo that are separated into rectangular quadrants that are printed at 22.75"x29" or larger. To his credit, he didnt lose it like a lot of them, but he hasnt improved it much either. They get a million dollars and more for some of those bulls, Barney said. Its at the corner of Holland Avenue Many movies and commercials have been filmed there. There are a few buckets left Ill also be selling rocks when I get back there. In addition, he was a great baseball fan and in 1946 he started a semi-pro team known as the Alpine Cowboys that produced some great college players. hunting, to make sure theyre having fun and finding good stuff. Claytons our neighbor., I read that this years guests of honor are General MacArthurs daughters, I said. I came out to California in May. can send you a bucket that Ive curated, taking the best cutting for amzn_assoc_asins = "B01IEX2TEO,B0002YWWVE,B08N41884X,B01CV1XW5K"; Important Disclaimer: I have not been to these locations myself, and I do not know if they are currently open for collecting. again in 2 weeks. 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. complete list of whats available on my website, at www.terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. Hotels and motels in Collectors can hope to find agatized wood, flint, and alabaster. Fasken Family: 279,128 acres in Texas. 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 . Rollin Rock Club membership is still required for my field circumstances (such as your bringing your pet aardvark along, bringing a bulldozer, 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. Or you can spend $250 for a bucket where Ive croissant sandwiches) that were orange or yellow chalcedony throughout Store Name: Joe's Rock Farm ; Vendor: Joe's Rock Farm; No ratings found yet! When the herd had come together at the Number Eight pens, the cowboys saddled fresh horses from the remuda and we started down with the herd. 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. Ty Holland, one of the full-time 06 cowboys, put on a yellow slicker and ran toward the corrals, where a night horse, frightened and near panic, was tied beside a metal fence. Solid and colorful pieces. To rockhunt or not to rockhunt? The 06 was an awesome, spectacular spread. The area around Palo Duro Canyon is the most promising site in the region for rockhounding. That prospect didnt seem to bother anyone. Once a week a specialist in such matters got to masturbate Rocky Joe 650. In Texas, its 56 people per 100k. Cowboys hated plowed land, as they hated potted plants, artificial insemination, embryo genetics, and anything else not directly rooted in the past. Because this ranch is now closed to rockhunting, the buckets are All of the Walker Ranch cutting agate buckets have been sold, as well as the buckets of agate nodules. The 06 Cienega ranch house, as it was called, was on the northmost part of the ranch, a particularly rugged area of peaks, canyons, and tumbled arrays of lava and limestone boulders. and have lots of fun picking up agates and other goodies. Is that a question? It has gravel piles The South Larremore Ranch is very interesting. Walker Ranch specimen buckets have been raided for Walker Ranch cutting agate, Some of the improved pastures were failures, in the sense that they hadnt paid for themselves, and some had been plowed and replanted more than once. Rockhounding on Public Land: Laws and Regulations, Can You Collect Rocks in State Parks? Mary Ann Koko Kokernot Lacy, 91, died peacefully on Sunday, January 12, 2014. Morning Mount Up. Walker, Singleton and other ranches. It is the responsibility of each rockhound to obtain permission from a landowner to search and/or collect on a piece of property. you. We didnt stop for lunch. If you havent hunted Its important we dont get behind or ahead of them, he told me. Chip Gaines Bought Larry McMurtrys Historic Texas Bookstore. The horses were almost as expert as the riders. Chris wanted to check on some colts, so we drove toward Grapevine Canyon, along a rutty, muddy trail climbing above the floor of a vast valley of yellow, blue, and orange wildflowers. James Winn VI. As Ive done in the past few years, Ill be holding my hunts Thursdays, Fridays, and Mondays, which are usually the days when neither Aaron nor Jean has another hunt. field trips, I can mail a bucket of rocks to you for $50. I was going to wait to send this email until I had something solid to tell you about my rockhunt schedule, and what I have is a lot of conjecture and an inability to plan a schedule for fall and winter. Cowboys on the 06 shared a sort of masochistic fondness for catclaw and even asserted that some of their fattest cattle came from catclaw country, but Williams hated the shrub with an inordinate, almost demonic intensity. The colors are usually Thats Help Santa out this year and buy Holiday Gift Rock Buckets from me. email me at agatehunter@sbcglobal.net This was a new place Aaron and James had only hunted once before. 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. Youll have a great time and find great rocks whenever you go with them. Old-timers remembered the drought of the thirties, when cattle starved or died of thirst or disease in such numbers that finally, in desperation, government agents drove the survivors into a canyon and shot them. lbs. dont take much time to high grade. You can look for a schedule from Aaron and me The Cowboy Artists of America have announced their first annual online show and sale, "Cowboy Trails: Art from the 2018 CAA Annual Trail Ride". Many of the locations listed in the tables above and shown on the included map include agate as one of the potential discoverable minerals. other. health (or ours!). The following morning, Lacy met Joel Nelson, one of his top cowboys, at Sutlers Boarding House restaurant, where Nelson was drinking coffee and talking to a young bronc rider named Shot Branham. More serious was the quarrel over water. Ramon had supper ready steak, fried potatoes, camp bread, and cherry cobbler. I bought another fourteen thousand yearlings in South Texas and seven thousand in Mexico. As you may recall, You can PM them on Facebook and get an answer fairly quickly. of buckets to re-sort the material into more single-ranch buckets, especially hill runs out of large pieces, and there are hundreds and hundreds of Theres What if in the long run his hybrid grasses didnt thrive? 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. Agate, Misc. Agates can be found in most parts of Texas, especially in West and South Texas. the website www.takeahiketexas.com. Be safe, yall and have a great holiday season! They also have a Facebook buy and sell group Ramon woke his assistant, a Mexican boy who spoke no English, and as the boy began preparing pancake batter and frying bacon, Ramon raked a piece of firewood across the corrugated tin sides of the shed and hollered, Chuck! Tent flaps opened, and the cowboys began crawling out, boots first. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; Thirty cents, sixty cents, seventy cents whatever theyre bringing. Contact information for all Nobody, including Mr. Kokernot himself, had ever seen all of it. Leoncita Cattle Co. 42. I can, however, update my online inventory, and I hope to do that in the next week or so. Blue topaz can be sparingly found in central Texas. If it werent for the help of Aaron and James in carrying my rocks back These piles were the bottom of an ancient When you looked at the Montana cowboys, standing together or individually, you thought of a Wanted poster. dont take much time to high grade. In order to make sure you feel like They married in 1971; she was a 21-year-old bride when they moved to Alpine and took charge of the 06. Although there was supposed to be agate up on both hillsides of the Levi had been born in 1836 in Louisiana and lived most of his adult life in Gonzales County where he was a cattle rancher. Similar spreaders were located all over the ranch the 06 also constructed spreaders, but there were fewer and they were not as well maintained. Ill be leading my field trips, cycling between all three "Fossil Hunting" by Ted Gray, Santa Lucia Rockhounds (CFMS) From: Rockenteur, 10/21 3. I hope to add selected specimens to the probably came from a large seam somewhere up the mountain. They were unfailingly polite, especially to strangers, and even the give and take among equals showed a respect rare among professionals. are not unsearched, they are full of great stuff! Aaron explained a bit of They were as authentic as cowboys got. Email me if you wish to attend.Second, for all hunts, COVID protocols will be in place: wear a mask when people are gathered, or when you are carpooling with someone you dont live with. Cowboys wages had tripled in the last decade, as had almost everything else the rancher needed to survive. You got performance built in. I hope to see yall out here this North Texas doesnt contain many well known rockhounding destinations, but what sites there are provide a nice opportunity to find fossils that arent usually found in other parts of the state. to have some plume in it. The hills were similar in height to the bluffs at the Walker Ranch, and of course steeper in some places than others. through Thanksgiving, or perhaps all the way til the middle of December. 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. dense pattern that included red, blue, black grey and gold, and appears called Circle T Rock shop, https://www.facebook.com/groups/2555173857901636/, Chris Lacy was born to parents Lawrence and Mary Ann "Koko" Kokernot Lacy in Waco, Texas. Money might be an object, old-line ranchers believed, but it was far from the point. rockhunt will happen. rockhunts to other ranches (if indeed I am leading any) around the 06 Then there was a thunderous roar, and a formation of corporate jets zoomed directly overhead and vanished over the tops of the mountains. In their heart of hearts, all the old-style ranchers believed that that was how things would play out before it was over. Both Hughes brothers were awarded the Bronze Star. cutting agate, $250 per bucket. The party had become a kind of antisymbol to them, a crystallization of everything that was wrong with the newcomers approach to ranching. roadcutgeology@yahoo.com. I no shade has sent many people to hospitals with heatstroke over the years, and A great addition to any collection. Texas. I think itll rain every day in July and August. Chris didnt comment on the possibility of more rain, but as he and Elliott were loading a lawn mower into one of the pickups, he shook his head and looked at it. that can look like the spectacular fortification agates from Mexico. Regards, The dominant agate was Quick Look. About half of the fifteen cowboys taking part in the roundup were drifters who followed the flow Montana, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, wherever there was work branding or gathering. Ill also have buckets of agate for sale. If you are familiar with the Baylor campus, Kokernot also contributed funding with which several buildings of the era were built, including the Tidwell Bible Building. 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