Kokernot o6 West Texas Hunting Texas Beard Adventures 6.96K subscribers Subscribe 1.7K views 3 years ago I got invited on my buddies company hunt again in West Texas. I also found some pieces off a large seam agate that had a There was, of course, much to be pessimistic about in this fragile and volatile country. If your search doesnt seem to work, try using fewer words. because the drive to the Ritchie Ranch only takes about 8 minutes, so we David Kokernot acquired the Kokernot 06 brand in 1837. I paid eight-two dollars an acre for this, he said. Property lines were irregular and interlocked like clasped fingers; at the borders of a ranch you could never be certain, really, of whose ranch you were on. Fluorite, Galena, Argentite, Cerargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Smithsonite, Amazonite, Felspar crystals, Quartz crystals, Topaz (blue, colorless), Tourmaline (black), Amazonite, Feldspar crystals, Quartz crystals (smoky), Topaz (blue, colorless), Tourmaline, Tektites (bediasites, black diamonds, fire pearls). The first and last rule was, and still is, Let nature have her way. It doesnt take that long to use it up.. complete list of whats available on my website, at www.terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. Hi Yall! We couldnt even make the down payment.. Though we could see for miles in all directions, we didnt see a single cow for nearly two hours. I encourage you to check them out if you are curious about the legalities of rock and mineral collecting. We hunted there for another 3 hours, got back to the cars at 5 p.m., and changes in how things are done, we are fortunate to still have three great amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "rockhoundreso-20"; On Friday morning before the first field trip, we met Aaron and James, and a friend, through Thanksgiving, or perhaps all the way til the middle of December. But whats best for cows is not necessarily best for grass in the balance of management. Most land then was open range, but Herbert gradually acquired title to what became the 06. Im going back Of course, thats his trouble.. you can reach Aaron Thomas at noraathomas@msn.com or Diane Lacy and their two children rode with Chris. The Henderson Flat, the property next to the 06, was his showpiece. He hires people to run around and I dont know what.. agate ($150 per bucket), Agate from Mexico ($175 a bucket) and all kinds of 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. Fort Davis was accustomed to tourists. View Texas History Notebooks profile on Facebook, View TexasHistoryNotebooks profile on Twitter, View texas-newmexico-historys profile on Tumblr, Dr. Junius William Mottley, namesake of MotleyCounty, Follow TEXAS HISTORY NOTEBOOK on WordPress.com. free to look at my website, http://terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. It grows logarithmically. Obra Denton, who had cowboyed all over the West for the past forty years, remembered spending a winter alone in the high country of northern Arizona. Herbert Lee Kokernot, Jr. was born in 1900 and succeeded his father to manage the ranch. reduced the price on the Ritchie Ranch buckets to $100 each, through the end of 10 acres in Brewster County, Texas. A couple of them did like material from the Ritchie. 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. The way I hear it, Clayton said, the 06 pays its cowboys twenty dollars a day, unless they bring their own camera, in which case they get twenty-five. Singer Charlie Daniels had actually worked an 06 roundup he was a pretty fair hand, they said. By the time we returned to camp, riding at full gallop, I had blisters on my hand from gripping the saddle horn, and I could barely walk. That idea is working well. for different minerals in the solution at different time made different color What if in the long run his hybrid grasses didnt thrive? They are wonderful. From the front porch of his ranch house. rock shopping easier, Ive gathered more Walker Ranch cutting agates, and The neighbors name was Clayton Williams, and not only did he disdain the cumulative wisdom of ranching tradition but he was wildly successful while doing so. Spring Works at Kokernot 06 Ranch, Davis Mountains, Texas. The Kokernot o6 Ranch in Alpine, Texas, can trace its origins to 1805, when David Kokernot was born in Amsterdam, Holland. When he died, he was referred to as a Texas patriot for his service to the area, including the Texas Revolution. Beautifully landscaped with rock walls and native grass Baines Park is a great place to go for a walk or have your Rocky moment running up the stairs. It didnt take a psychiatrist to see that something didnt square here; any old-time rancher would have been willing to point it out. Old cows and bulls that had outlived their reproductive usefulness were sold along with the calves, the best heifers were reserved to restock the herd, and the cycle continued. A true working cattle ranch, the Four Sixes brings more than 100 years of superior cattle breeding expertise to our Angus cattle program. Jean Larremores rockhunts: email her at He spurred his mount to head them off and turn them along the opposite side of the ridge, toward Number Eight. 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. The other hillside had some blue botryoidal pieces with crystals, a So as of now Ill stay out here. Everything they owned they carried with them their horse, their saddle, their bedroll, and their warbag of gear. specimens, Misc. 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. Im asking Is that a question? $250 each. The best rockhounding locations in South Texas are generally associated with the gravels of the Rio Grande, but locations further inland towards San Antonio should also be considered. 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? Ill admit I didnt understand much of Ive been on a lot of field trips (over 1000 when I quit We didnt stop for lunch. Some years I have only two thousand. Ive gone through different buckets to find The opal can be material along with the cuttable agate. Usually the old cows will teach their calves not to eat it, but sometimes well lose a new cow or calf. A rhyolite cliff, pale red in the midday sun, towered far above us this was what they called Arkansas Pasture, 20 to 25 sections of rimrock country that was used for pasturing horses in the winter. The most amazing thing about Catclaw Pasture was that there wasnt a catclaw in sight. The most spectacular aspect of his ranching business was his registered Brangus business. Jeff Bezos owns Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which he uses for a . Kokernot 06 Ranch Texas $ 38.00 Add to cart. ranch Aaron Thomas is beginning to lead fieldtrips on. Walker. In her thirteen years at the 06, Diane had learned not only to ride but also to cut calves from a herd, handle a branding iron, and do almost anything else a working cowboy did. I ran out of buckets of Walker Ranch cutting agate last spring. This is what satisfies us.. I still have agate available from the Singleton Ranch ($125 for an unsorted Contact information for all The Cowboy Artists of America have announced their first annual online show and sale, "Cowboy Trails: Art from the 2018 CAA Annual Trail Ride". 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. Commercial mining never really took root in Texas and, while there are some old mining dumps to be picked over by rockhounds, most of the best rockhounding sites are in the gravels of rivers and streams and exposed hillsides. They both harvested nice bucks. or perhaps a tornado or two. And there are lots of other goodies available He had come out this morning to watch Lance, his great-grandson and potential heir to the 06, play baseball. Everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. Clayton Williams, like his neighbor Herbert Kokernot, Jr., was a graduate of Texas A&M, an Aggie right down to his boots, which on special occasions displayed the emblem of his alma mater, as did the swimming pool at his ranch in Alpine and many of his other earthly possessions. My total adventure cost $213: $60 entrance fee and $153 for rocks. This is the kind of country that doesnt adapt itself much to change, he said. All the tepees had weathered the storm, but some had leaked, and a few of the cowboys would spend the night in soggy bedrolls. It also has the People liked it that way. hours before its to start, I will cancel the hunt and make other plans. It was just good business. The land had been in the families for years, long ago bought and paid for, and so had the breed stock. On This had been old, rough, used up ranchland, but because of government subsidies farmers were able to irrigate and grow some cotton. Similar spreaders were located all over the ranch the 06 also constructed spreaders, but there were fewer and they were not as well maintained. Kokernot 06 Ranch - Acreage: 278,000 acres Andrew Dansby The ranch has ties to Houston, believe or not. How about all of them put together? Antelope and deer grazed placidly beside herds of Herefords, oblivious to passing traffic. and really big compared to the ones I found at the Ritchie and the Some of the prettiest colors were lavender, maroon They begin at the Tri-La-Bite food trucks in Alpine. They saw an example of it next door. Its located on the east side of 5th street The 06 Ranch is located in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, operating on 130,000 acres under a brand that was first used around 1837 by David L. Kokernot, landowner and scout for Sam Houston during the Battle of San Jacinto. truck run by Aaron and his wife Katrina. Ill still be leading hunts to the Ritchie Ranch, the South Larremore Ranch, and East Needle Peak. again in 2 weeks. going to California at the end of June. At that time Mr. H. Kokernot Jr. was still alive. I can move with the market, with the grass. He went on: A lot of ranchers like Kokernot are keeping their lights [steers under 350 pounds] to fatten them and wait for the market to jump. Foy Proctor Memorial Cowman's Award of Honor Recipient. are full, and a new schedule for the Spring will be published in See you in the Fall! have lots of people tell us that they can take the heat because theyre from Bailing hay, much less selling it, was as foreign to the 06 operation as selling zebras something else Clayton Williams had done. Ranching is getting to be a business where people have less faith in experience than in new, untried methods. Thunderheads had been building up all afternoon, How Florence ButtNot Her SonLaunched the H-E-B Empire, More Colorful Texas Sayings Than You Can Shake a Stick At, A Texas Professor Has Cured Hiccups, Folks, The Bronc-busting, Cow-punching, Death-defying Legend of Boots ONeal, From Camel Herding to Blues Music to Tacos al Pastor: Finding the Middle East in Texas, The Train Doctor of Round Rock Prescribes a Little Childlike Wonder. All of the Walker Ranch cutting agate buckets have been sold, as well as the buckets of agate nodules. The best rockhounding locations in Central Texas are the areas surrounding the towns of Mason, Llano, and Fredericksburg. Keep him till January, Saunders said to Joel after they had loaded the animal into the trailer. Although these buckets 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. Until then, please consider Aaron Thomas field trips to the 06 Ranch, the Larremore Ranch, and Needle Peak. We dont feel we own this land were just leasing it during our lifetime. Kokernot heirs: 278,000 acres in West Texas. In about 20 There had been lean times, of course, especially since the onset of the drought. You can sign up for Aarons field trips the same way you sign up for If anybody gets drunk and falls in the swimming pool, itll probably be me. Truth was, Id seen wilder parties in my broom closet. to the vehicle, I wouldnt have gotten a third as much. A reception and lunch will follow. Chris played football and studied ranch management at Texas Christian University. It can poison and even kill cattle, she said. Ill be selling heifers back to some of the same people that sold them to me. Aaron, Jean and I work independently of each As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. 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. I miss seeing yall back there, and I hope to see a lot of you when Im there in the Spring. Hi Unfortunately for rockhounds, the law prohibits them from publishing their names or contact information online. February. For the last few months Ive been waiting for an appointment that will finally happen at the end of this month. dual membership. ROCKHOUNDING THE KOKERNOT o6 RANCH Lapidary Guillermo 13 subscribers 483 views 1 year ago First day we headed to agate hill Second day table 9 and table 10 For rough material and slabs Show more. Jack is short of grass, Joel said. different ranches in 4 days. Levi had been born in 1836 in Louisiana and lived most of his adult life in Gonzales County where he was a cattle rancher. A Right-wing Cabal Took Over Odessas Municipal Government. In the view of old-line ranchers, Williams took that precious resource too much for granted. The locations and information contained in this article are primarily derived from academic papers, online resources, and other outside sources. What's more Texas than cowboys, beef, and billionaires? Most of the water gaps would need replacing, but overall the rains had been a great asset. E of Austin, area cuts, draws, washes, fields, etc. and mauve. If you would like to read some of the source material for yourself I have listed them below. Many had surface pits that were in a regular pattern, as if Few cattle ever climbed up that far, and those that did were too wild to be rounded up. Yall! This West Texas ranch just opened to rock hunting. There had been arguments over property lines, over water rights, even over the right to host wild parties. that is brecciated common opal with a background of chalcedony. We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. trips. His family had a mercantile business and a large cattle ranch. Herbert Lee Kokernot, Sr. was born in 1867 to Levi Moses and Sarah Littlefield Kokernot. A company in Guymon, Oklahoma, which would fatten them for about a year, bought most of them for about 65 cents a pound. 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. Basic cow-calf operations like ours take what they can get, he said. Many movies and commercials have been filmed there. opalized agate that we found on the Ritchie, with much smaller opalized You might learn it in one minute. That was the kind of sentiment the new breed of ranch owner would not understand, a romantic notion that flew in the face of technology and quantum leaps but that went to the heart of what Joel and Barney believed. The Agate, Misc. 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. Mr. Kokernot and Mr. Gray were true Gentlemen! I followed him around the ridge, and we stopped again on the opposite side of the mountain, above a draw leading up another hill to our rendezvous point. small and big pieces of that, some partly buried and a lot on the If some rich oilman was willing to pay $200 an acre, a rancher had to be crazy to raise cattle on it. called Circle T Rock shop, https://www.facebook.com/groups/2555173857901636/, It was still dark, but he could see the flicker of ropes in the remuda. 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. At the sight of the waves of rich grasses growing in Catclaw Pasture, Clayton Williams was overcome. rockhunts to other ranches (if indeed I am leading any) around the 06 Across the fence, however, on the flats of the 06, there was an abundance of catclaw, a vicious, spindly shrub that sucks up water and shows its appreciation by tearing open the hides of cows, and sometimes cowboys, with spiked claws on stems that grow as tall as ten feet. any color from white through the buff, pink, and red colors into brown, and the Frankly, Lacy said, we prefer it that way.. But the heat we have here is very dry heat, and Polks Peak was off to our left. Pieces can be quite large: dense pattern that included red, blue, black grey and gold, and appears Singleton material has some bouquet agate in it, and in general those pieces The best rockhounding locations in East Texas include the areas north of Lake Livingston, around McGee Bend dam, and surrounding the town of Bedias. Such prices made absolutely no sense to the traditional ranchers, but they made enormous sense to Clayton Williams. There are plume agates, mosses, fortifications, tube agates and some others Another landmark event occurred about that time. some really neat stuff that they call crayola. 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. Membership will run The ranchs gross income for the year would come to about $350,000. Im going back Its time A student at Sul Ross, Branham was looking for part-time work breaking colts. He keeps the group together and hunts with Diane touched each one and called it by name. The 06 paid what were standard cowboy wages: $50 a day plus tobacco and chuck. bed for a while, then ventured only a little ways up each hillside. Ill come back later and put something on it.. 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. News got out and rockhounds began calling! Claiming 800,000 acres, King Ranch has been the largest cowboy ranch in the U.S. for more than 160 years. 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. stick on. I am continually surprised at the variety in I have twelve thousand head on my Alpine operations this year, he said. In West Texas resides the Kokernot 06 Ranch, which spans 278,000 acres of beautiful, rugged terrain. you know, mandates from the government to shelter in place or not travel can Ted Gray was the Foreman for the 06 and was starting up his own ranch at time. sometimes rainy, with occasional thunder storms which can bring lots of hail, That was part of the grisly cycle of ranching the mamas literally led their babies to slaughter, then, by some ancient homing instinct, found their own way back to pasture, where they would breed again. Because the the geology to us before we started in the morning, and told us where we per hunt. Walker Ranch buckets. Ill also be leading additional trips now and then, so if you have a special request, let me find the good stuff was similar to what we had been practicing on the "Fossil Hunting" by Ted Gray, Santa Lucia Rockhounds (CFMS) From: Rockenteur, 10/21 3. They had not tried to mold the land into new forms of usefulness but [had molded] themselves to its shrunken possibilities. The drought wasnt the reason they were losing the drought was their excuse. I came out to California in May. bits in a chalcedony background, often in a regular pattern. His trouble is he has no feel for the land. We dont grow cattle we grow grass. 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. Television crews, moviemakers, wildlife artists, writers it chapped his Aggie ass to see them fawning over the 06. As Ranch agate to $125 for an unsorted bucket. its just north and east of Alpine, and Aaron has shown me photos of wonderful [Re: rolyat.nosaj] #7842920 05/18/20 01:40 AM: Use this resource as a guide to get you started. While there, they rode, roped and razzed one another as friends often do. Texas A&M was the central fact of his life: he prided himself on being the little Aggie who could. yourselves until its time to get together at the end of the day. Southwest Used to Do Everything Right. In His pet word for conditions was hardscrabble, taken from the title of John Graves book, which he talked about constantly. formed the agate was dissolved in ground water flowing horizontally. rocks via USPS, and every one of them got there in good shape with all of the I didnt seen any rind on any of the pieces, so they Teri, Note: The rockhunts on the 06 Ranch are being led by Aaron Thomas and Ill also have buckets of agate for sale. Im back in Alpine, Texas, in time to start field trips next week. Seam agate also. so the material looks great if you cut diagonally across the bands for your 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. Find company research, competitor information, contact details & financial data for Kokernot 06 Ranch Inc of Fort Davis, TX. He seemed to care. But Williams was a trendsetter in the newer technique of embryo transfer. Aaron and Katrina have also opened up a rock shop in Alpine, trips. It looks like the Chris Lacy believed, for instance, that the drought dictated a severe cutback in 1984. He mentioned the Kokernots more than once to me; he was always interested in the big ranching families. But you have to hike back up a cliff with it, so you end up being quite selective. Two hundred twenty square miles of lush, rolling pastures, sheer rimrock bluffs, and jagged canyons stretched across the top of the Davis Mountains from just north of Fort Davis to the city limits of Alpine, thirty miles to the south. that saves you shipping cost for the second bucket and doesnt To his credit, he didnt lose it like a lot of them, but he hasnt improved it much either. His cows were Herefords, but they ran with a mixed breed of steers. To make your counting), and this is one Ill remember for many years. 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. If no one has signed up for a rockhunt 48 The house was supplied by the 06, as were utilities, long distance phone service, and all the beef they wanted. 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. lake, and they have some incredible agate in them. Most of the old-timers thought that Williams disregard for tradition would eventually settle the score in their favor; he would run out of grass or out of water or out of luck. Agate, Amethyst, Carnelian, Chalcedony, Jasper, Petrified wood, etc. there had been filaments of aragonite or another material in the cavity You want me to buy a thousand head of light calves while youre gone on vacation? Joel asked the boss of the 06. Almost every institution in town had been owned or controlled or at least deeply touched by the Kokernots the First National Bank, the newspaper, the Masonic lodge, the Baptist church, the various cattle associations, Sul Ross University. ranches available for rockhunting: The Saturdays, October through December. Herberts grandfather was David Levi Kokernot, who was born in Amsterdam and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was a youth. The rain hit with the force of a runaway train, washing out nearly every bridge across Limpia Creek and stranding families in the high country around Alpine and Fort Davis. Before Herbert Seniors death, the 06 sprawled over 450 sections 288,000 acres of the best grazing land in the state. This part of Texas is the best place in the state for rockhounding, both for its variety of minerals and the sheer number of prospective locations. 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