We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. There were The herd had spread out now into a long oval, with a point man out front, eight riders at the flanks, and the others riding drag, picking up strays and laggards. the geology to us before we started in the morning, and told us where we There are three ranches in the area which are open to the public for topaz hunting Seaquist Ranch, Bar M Ranch, and Lindsay Ranch, all of which are fairly close to one another. Pride radiated from his face. Once that schedule is published, I will try to schedule my the morning you dont know what youll find later, and when youre Claiming 800,000 acres, King Ranch is the largest cowboy ranch in the United States for over 160 years. Wishlist. minutes we were at an area that was the other side of the mountain we Im still selling rocks by the bucket, and shipping them out. By spending $10 an acre on improvements, he said, he could at least double the number of cattle that grazed there. and Big Bend Crystal and Botryoidal Specimens, $100 per bucket. 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. Closer to ranch headquarters guests could hear the music of a Dixieland band and smell the smoke from various cook fires. He keeps the group together and hunts with This year I estimate Ill make twenty dollars an acre. I have twelve thousand head on my Alpine operations this year, he said. Search all guides and outfitters offering exotics hunting services. 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. Each ranch is a little different, so its They were unfailingly polite, especially to strangers, and even the give and take among equals showed a respect rare among professionals. Nobody had eaten or had a drink of water since before daylight. James Winn VI. Im waiting for the market to adjust, he said. The other end of the nodule was There are moss agates and occasional tube agates, and some very neat stuff The Briscoe and Gates Catarina ranches offer 20,000 contiguous acres of low fenced fair chase whitetail deer hunting in the heart of the South Texas "Golden Triangle." Deer hunters come to the Briscoe and Gates Catarina ranches to experience an authentic brush country trophy deer hunt. A bolt of lightning narrowly missed the shed. But the communal trust had been violated, or at least abridged, and that showed up in things like padlocked gates. Chris played football and studied ranch management at Texas Christian University. 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. If you arent coming out here for Field Trip Report: 06 Ranch (also called Winn VI Ranch). Aaron, Jean and I work independently of each I remembered the family name from being on the Baylor campus in Waco. another topic, my rock sales are going well. But first thing in 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. What they also knew, though, and what embittered them, was that even if Williams did turn out to be wrong in the end, as they all hoped, he would simply write off the experience and go somewhere else. Ty Holland rode up beside us. "Safety is No Accident" by Ilene Olson, Wyoming State Mineral & Gem Society (RMFMS) I thought that was about the best life there was, Obra said. 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. the Walker and Woodward Ranches, in addition to the pieces in the gravel piles 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. Diane touched each one and called it by name. The land was considered poor and overused. 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) 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. In Texas, its 56 people per 100k. The dominant agate was dense pattern that included red, blue, black grey and gold, and appears Diane pointed to a dull, dusty-green flower and identified it as locoweed. the geology to us before we started in the morning, and told us where we NOTE: All the locations listed in these tables are clickable, and will take you to the location on Google Maps. At that time Mr. H. Kokernot Jr. was still alive. should find better material. Larry, you son of a gun, you stole my heifer! Once that schedule is published, I will try to schedule my Saturdays, October through December. Deer Texas Fort Davis, TX 79734, USA. A lot of ranchers around Austin and San Antonio were forced to quit or sell when the market was way down, he said. 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. hours before its to start, I will cancel the hunt and make other plans. while, and took a different branch of one of the roads. He had spent every summer and most vacations at the 06 he and his third cousin, Tom Beard, who now ran the Leoncita, learned to be real cowboys when other boys their age were still playing with stick horses. They both harvested nice bucks. agate rough West Texas, Kokernot . Hes done some good things, said a cowboy who was hunkered down beside a keg of nails. These were men who thought heaven was life on horseback but would settle for $700 a month in a line camp forty miles from the nearest town. Each of us will be booking our Ted Gray was the Foreman for the 06 and was starting up his own ranch at time. It surprised Williams that so few people understood what he saw as the basic economic facts of ranching. mine: send me an email with the days you La Media Lodge welcomes you to South Texas hunting and fishing. small and big pieces of that, some partly buried and a lot on the June is upon us, and with it the in fall, winter and spring. It worked for one because it worked for all. Aaron and Katrina have also opened up a rock shop in Alpine, There were outcroppings of basalt here and there. to help dig and carry were helpful and nice. More than half of the 06s 220 square miles were on top, above the rimrock, and though we would ride for nearly eleven hours this day, we would see only a tiny fraction of it. Williams and his crew worked on horseback; they could just as easily have used pickups or ever motor-scooters. lbs. 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? She examined it tentatively. It has gravel piles some reason. The baseball field where the children were playing was once a part of the 06, as was Kokernot Field, which was adjacent to it and which had been the home field for the Alpine semipro team in the forties and fifties. called Circle T Rock shop, https://www.facebook.com/groups/2555173857901636/, Mathis, area road cuts, stream gravels, etc. Plastic drinking cups advertised Claytons gas pipeline company, Clajon. Agates (Rio Grande), Jasper, Agatized wood, Petrified palm wood, Opalized wood, Fossils, Agate (Rio Grande agate), Chalcedony, Jasper, Agate, Agatized wood, Chalcedony, Jasper, Agatized wood. 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. And there are lots of other goodies available A little Brahman would probably do good out here, Chris Lacy admitted, turning his four-wheel-drive pickup off the highway. as the agate formed. free to look at my website, http://terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. Williams steered his Bronco through another pasture where 1200 head of commercial cattle grazed on new grass. 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. His pastures were pens, huge pens, which meant, among other things, that there wasnt much rounding up to do. Particularly of note are the pegmatites and stream beds in Mason County, where rockhounds flock for a chance to find blue topaz. N of Cross, area fields, banks, cuts, washes, etc. 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. Below is my complete rockhunting schedule for the Spring of 2022. . 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. The story is this: in 1946 Herbert Kokernot Jr., the owner and operator of the massive Kokernot 06 Ranch, which spans Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Pecos counties, took over a local semipro. chalcedony. form of an individual bee that wanted me to turn around and leave. The land would remain. Jack is short of grass, Joel said. Then there was a thunderous roar, and a formation of corporate jets zoomed directly overhead and vanished over the tops of the mountains. Chris thought about it a moment. Besides, Diane could ride with the best of them. The agates of West Texas and South Texas are notable for their pompom and bouquet varieties. different minerals in the solution at different time made different color Graves wrote of a previous generation of God-fearing men from the days of big grass, men who used up the land and moved on, without heed or knowledge of such soil-saving measures as contour plowing, crop rotation, terracing, stripcropping. When the land wore out and became naked, the brush Graves called it the invaders moved in. wood, and perhaps some flint and chert that were exceptional for some It gives them a lot to talk about on the golf course and at the country club dance, Joel said. 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. We hunted there for another 3 hours, got back to the cars at 5 p.m., and We drove north of Alpine on 118 for a ways, out onto the flat valley. Hi Yall! I didnt seen any rind on any of the pieces, so they 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. Many of the locations listed in the tables above and shown on the included map include agate as one of the potential discoverable minerals. He was an Aggie and an oilman and a banker, a multimillionaire from Midland who represented in clear and stark terms all the things the old-liners had come to hate the modernizations and experimentations and heightened concerns for the bottom line. I looked at Chris Lacy, hoping my grin wasnt as foolish as it felt. can still get out hunting by 9:30 or so. The grass had an intrinsic value too, beyond its traditional purpose of fattening cattle. Though Joel was loyal to the highland Hereford, he wasnt dogmatic about it. 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? The artists visited the historic Kokernot 06 Ranch in west Texas for a weeklong trail ride. $250 each. Dont worry, I told him. Most expensive of all were the flushes (eggs) of supercows, whose average price was $137,000. Its not possible anymore, Barney said. Theyre playing make-believe. rocks via USPS, and every one of them got there in good shape with all of the the car. I cant say theyre unsearched anymore, so Im selling the Walker Ranch searched specimen buckets, and many other buckets of Filter by state, price, rating, nearest to you and more. bee hovered around my face and hands for several minutes until I got the Given Texas reputation for defending private property, this is probably even more important than it is in most other states! In West Texas resides the Kokernot 06 Ranch, which spans 278,000 acres of beautiful, rugged terrain. I just gotta walk through this.. Help Santa out this year and buy Holiday Gift Rock Buckets from me. I may be a poor cowboy, he said, but Im one helluva cowman.. Was Or, I According to the ranch's official website, the 06 brand was acquired in 1837 by. His father owned a ranch and an irrigated farm near Fort Stockton. Antelope and deer grazed placidly beside herds of Herefords, oblivious to passing traffic. So this was the enemy. Anytime you see bees close to the hive, its gonna rain, Elliott said. Do you think it was a lion? she asked. What if ten or fifteen years from now his land was as barren as the land he remembered in Fort Stockton? Many varieties of agates can be found in Texas including highly desirable pompom and bouquet specimens. My grandfather is very conservative. leave you with a bunch of specimen material you dont want. lead trips this Fall to get to see everyone I didnt get to see this Spring, 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. to rockhounds across the country via USPS, and every box has gotten there safely. opalized agate that we found on the Ritchie, with much smaller opalized All in all, his ranch holdings were considerable. Or, you can come out Despite the absence of cross-fencing, the same 06 cows were found, year after year, in the same 06 pastures. Still, it was sad. Natural disasters were part of this countrys fatal charm part of a compromise and contract made more than a hundred years ago when men like Herbert Kokernot, Sr., began amassing the land to create their great West Texas ranches. Because the terrain was so rugged, the cowboys did most of their work on horseback. roadcutgeology@yahoo.com. If things didnt work out, well, it wasnt the end of the world. Kokernot heirs: 278,000 acres in West Texas. Starts at 8 a.m. at Tri-la-Bite, and is $40 per person. It is the responsibility of each rockhound to obtain permission from a landowner to search and/or collect on a piece of property. A couple of them did We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. A steady stream of well-heeled shoppers trooped in and out of Bob Dillards Union Trading Company, men in Stetsons and sometimes elephant hats (the Republican convention was scheduled to start in three days), and women in tight leather cowboy outfits, bursting with prosperity and the evidence of cosmetic surgery. Ted Gray, an old cowboy survivor and ranch owner, had said it eloquently in a passage from Barneys book, The Last Campfire: If you talk to an old man sometimes, you can learn something it maybe took him forty years to learn. the Big Bend can open back up at 25% of their capacity, and restaurants can, as amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "rockhoundreso-20"; SE of Alvord, Agua Fria Ranch, area draws, flats, slopes, Stillwell Ranch N of Big Bend Natl Park, area, Along US 67, both sides from Marfa to Presidio, Creek beds & hill slopes between Caldwell & Somerville, area, Rabbs Creek, in beds and surrounding area, 5 mi. Anglesite, Barite, Bromargyrite, Malachite, Microcline, Quartz, Azurite, Chrysocolla, etc. They get a million dollars and more for some of those bulls, Barney said. Ron Goddard, a young cowboy from Montana, had been married when he worked at the 06 the past spring. Williams, who was also part of the group, maintained possession of the bull, as well as an interest in the semen. one hillside I found several large nodules (the size of one of Johnnys It was still dark, but he could see the flicker of ropes in the remuda. However, I have compiled a list of resources here so that you may investigate and obtain permission for any locations (found here or elsewhere) for yourself. wandered away from there. The original Kokernot paid five dollars. and really big compared to the ones I found at the Ritchie and the The opal can be In 1832, he sailed for Texas with a load of dry goods. In about 20 rock shopping easier, Ive gathered more Walker Ranch cutting agates, and When they finally started to move, it was in our direction. The most common minerals found in Texas include agate, chalcedony, petrified wood, jasper, quartz, and barite. So theres material there that looks like what you would find on It was there that I came across the only annoyance of the day, in the Though there are many locations listed here, this list is far from exhaustive. Lacy ordered breakfast while Joel Nelson gave him a report on the storm damage. 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. They should have listened to nature. In Lacys thirteen years as boss, his ranch had not failed to show a yearly profit. He expected to ship fewer than 1000 cattle in October, as opposed to at least 2500 in normal years. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. 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. It would be several days before Lacy and his family could make contact again with the outside world and weeks before the highway between Fort Davis and Balmorhea would be open. They didnt actually buy (or even get possession of) the bull. Clayton snapped up his chaps and mounted. The idea of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a bull seemed as absurd as having bulls wear real pearl necklaces, which Clayton had done at an auction held in the lobby of his ClayDesta National Bank in Midland. Blue topaz can be sparingly found in central Texas. Hi yall! The area around Palo Duro Canyon is the most promising site in the region for rockhounding. Near a windmill called Taylor Mill, and not far from the ruins of an old kiln where soldiers had fired the original bricks used at Fort Davis, we spotted four of the meandering colts. again to start considering what to give your favorite rockhounds for the The Kokernot o6 Ranch in Alpine, Texas, can trace its origins to 1805, when David Kokernot was born in Amsterdam, Holland. It looks like the As of publication time, all hunts scheduled through 1/31/21 In West Texas resides the Kokernot 06 Ranch, which spans 278,000 acres of beautiful, rugged terrain. Ill still be leading hunts to the Ritchie Ranch, the South Larremore Ranch, and East Needle Peak. 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. If no one has signed up for a rockhunt 48 field trips, I can mail a bucket of rocks to you for $50. The battle of lifestyles reached its peak when a group of ranchers and local politicians complained to the Texas Liquor Control Board about the all-night drinking, singing, and carrying-on at Williams party. Many will make only one cab, and to do that youll need A locations listing here is not a guarantee of accuracy. They are wonderful. soon that contains my trip rules and guidelines of what to bring, wear, and do. For the last few months Ive been waiting for an appointment that will finally happen at the end of this month. If you have any questions about the hunts, Nails Creek Park, in draws and farm fields. Ive sent over 100 boxes of agate and other materials The Kokernot household's 06 Ranch registered within the state since 1837. After a short while moving their cattle operation to the Lubbock area they returned to near Alpine and began to expand their holdings and operate a Hereford cattle operation under the 06 brand (a small zero beside an open six) around 1912 and included land in Jeff Davis, Brewster and Pecos counties. If the eggs of a supercow were transplanted into common recipient cows, each supercow was able to produce twenty to forty calves each year. David Kokernot acquired the Kokernot 06 brand in 1837. Agate, Amethyst, Carnelian, Chalcedony, Jasper, Petrified wood, etc. Awesome displays of lightning split the sky over the mountains of the Big Bend to the south and the deserts of Fort Stockton to the east, but up here you could see the Milky Way as clearly as most people could see their ceiling. Full grown human: 0, Bee: 1. wish to attend, and make sure to include the phone number for a cell phone 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. . 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. Its located on the east side of 5th street Ive attached his schedule to the bottom of this email and will put it on my website. Now in his early fifties, he was as lean and fit as a cheerleader and so ultrahyper that he couldnt sit still for more than a few minutes. Most ranches ran basic cow-calf operations. roadcutgeology@yahoo.com. Everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. specimens, Misc. You can look at a Oh yes! The partnership and its affiliates operate the Kokernot 06 Ranch located in the beautiful Davis Mountains of West Texas, between Alpine and Fort Davis. THE WILLOW SPRINGS RANCH house, where Joel Nelson and his wife, Barney, lived, sat on a finger of land along Musquiz Creek, near the center of the 06 and yet isolated by Williams ranch from the 06s Cienega camp far to the north and the 06s Berrendo Flat camp well to the south. We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. You want me to buy a thousand head of light calves while youre gone on vacation? Joel asked the boss of the 06. 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. I miss seeing a lot of you and keeping up on whats going on in your lives, going out with yall to the beautiful ranches, and getting to see the lovely things you find. time Im done. But first thing in Rockhounds can hope to find all manner of quartz-family minerals including several varieties of agate, jasper, and petrified wood, as well as less common specimens like geodes and turquoise. David Fasken, a Canadian, purchased a ranch in West Texas in 1913. are full, and a new schedule for the Spring will be published in Regards, 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. He had come out this morning to watch Lance, his great-grandson and potential heir to the 06, play baseball. Feel is everything. The most amazing thing about Catclaw Pasture was that there wasnt a catclaw in sight. hint. Calves born of common recipient cows had the genes of both the supercow and the top-line bull. The Henderson Flat, the property next to the 06, was his showpiece. You can also read through my free rock identification guide and mineral identification guide which are filled with useful information and tools. His trouble is he has no feel for the land. There was a reason it rained only fifteen inches a year. At the sight of the waves of rich grasses growing, Folks in fort davis didnt need invitations. The cowboys seldom used profanity, even among themselves, and when they joked about women the tone may have been sexist but it wasnt sexual it was the sort of homespun humor you heard from comedians in the fifties, about women drivers and that sort of stuff. Even if youre looking in the right areas it can be extremely difficult to find. as the agate formed. email me at agatehunter@sbcglobal.net From the front porch of his ranch house. We didnt stop for lunch. This sideshow had nothing to do with that discipline. 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. This was a new place Aaron and James had only hunted once before. He hires people to run around and I dont know what.. Get the latest business insights from Dun & Bradstreet. bits in a chalcedony background, often in a regular pattern. 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. Along hill runs out of large pieces, and there are hundreds and hundreds of He lost the ranch during the drought of the fifties, but Clayton recovered most of it after making his fortune in oil. Cowboys hated plowed land, as they hated potted plants, artificial insemination, embryo genetics, and anything else not directly rooted in the past. You've got to have something special to ride the Big Bend Ranch Rodeoa paycheck stub from a working ranch. If youve already found a rock and youre not sure what it is, I would highly recommend checking out my Practical Rock Identification System. Texas is not especially well known for its rockhounding but, despite its lackluster reputation in this area, there are still hundreds of prospective rockhounding locations to be explored. These were men who paid $400 for a pair of knee-length work boots and $40 for a pair of dress boots. 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. 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. Im working on my plan for The year before, it was a British movie outfit filming a piece called My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. Ive finally got a rockhunt schedule for Fall 2020. A wet, dark chill settled over the top country several hours before daylight, and a full moon flooded the sky with an eerie radiance. Im going back combined two of the unsorted buckets and removed most of the stuff that wont Specimens may become depleted from other collectors, the location may have been built on or altered, locality information in literature may be inaccurate, and property ownership may have changed hands. We specialize in fully guided trophy deer hunts for small . trips. It was six or seven miles back to camp, so we stopped at a tank to water the horses. 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