
2016 Land Report 100: King Ranch Heirs
No. 9 King Ranch Heirs 911,215 acres In 2015, King Ranch

No. 9 King Ranch Heirs 911,215 acres In 2015, King Ranch

As the 20th century came to a close, one of the

An energetic Swede, Svante Swenson established a 680,000-acre ranching empire north of

By Lisa Martin As a 5-year-old, Cody Wetmore remembers looking down

No. 50 Hunt Family 200,000 acres The history of Hunt

“Your land is connected to lots of other things, from

No. 39 D.K. Boyd 244,332 acres This rancher, oilman, and

By Corinne Gaffner Garcia On the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert,

The 124,000-acre Broken O Ranch, one of the most expansive and

This Coloradoan has a knack for singling out valuable opportunities and

This cowboy’s sweetheart is a fourth-generation New Mexico rancher who still

By Eric O’Keefe | Photography by Gustav Schmiege III The name says it all: The

Bob Smith admits that outsiders might consider his country, the rugged

Anyone familiar with the history of the American West knows the

By Eric O’Keefe The Wall Street Journal reports that Land Report 100er

BY ERIC O’KEEFE On August 17, Liberty Media CEO John Malone