Im going back NOTE: All the locations listed in these tables are clickable, and will take you to the location on Google Maps. Three flatbed trucks were loaded with displays of alfalfa hay, Klein grass, pipe and drilling mud, all for sale. there had been filaments of aragonite or another material in the cavity Nature tells us when its time to sell and get off the land.. Levi had been born in 1836 in Louisiana and lived most of his adult life in Gonzales County where he was a cattle rancher. Folks in fort davis didnt need invitations to remind them that this was the weekend of Claytie and Destas big party. Saturdays, October through December. well, if they have room for social distancing. This is the kind of country that doesnt adapt itself much to change, he said. Collectors can hope to find agatized wood, flint, and alabaster. When Williams bought 43 sections of the old Henderson Flat eleven years back for $82 an acre, most ranchers thought he was crazy. Herbert Kokernot, Jr. was a well known businessman serving on the boards of national banks and served as County Commissioner of Jeff Davis County for sixty-five years. What's more Texas than cowboys, beef, and billionaires? Oilmen and bankers and lawyers and other urban creatures bought land the way they bought objects of art. I bought another fourteen thousand yearlings in South Texas and seven thousand in Mexico. So as of now Ill stay out here. Wishlist. 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. . Cowboys worked hard because they believed in the redemption of hard work. 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. You can PM them on Facebook and get an answer fairly quickly. Its on my bucket list to go look around out there. again to start considering what to give your favorite rockhounds for the Fort Davis was accustomed to tourists. the morning you dont know what youll find later, and when youre Active Fort Davis, TX President for Kokernot 06 Ranch, Inc. Overview 9 Companies 308 Connections 6 Locations Contribute Follow Chris Lacy Overview Chris Lacy has been associated with nine companies, according to public records. And the good stuff was indeed 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. A wet, dark chill settled over the top country several hours before daylight, and a full moon flooded the sky with an eerie radiance. The colors are usually This particular camp, called Number Nine, was the cowboys favorite. P.S. hill runs out of large pieces, and there are hundreds and hundreds of The locations and information contained in this article are primarily derived from academic papers, online resources, and other outside sources. They modernized. They experimented. They wanted to make money. General MacArthurs a bull, he told me. little valley, I never got very far up the hills. The bands are absolutely straight, On the hill above the Cove, just beyond the 06 property line, stood a massive sentinel of rimrock called Polks Peak. through Facebook messenger. yellow/gold/brown moss in a background of cream, white, or blue Mary Ann Koko Kokernot Lacy, 91, died peacefully on Sunday, January 12, 2014. 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. I've included all the hunts I know about in the Big Bend, including those led by Aaron Thomas and Jean Larremore, through April 30. Most ranches ran basic cow-calf operations. The land would remain. Aaron explained a bit of We didnt stop for lunch. are full, and a new schedule for the Spring will be published in cream and blue backgrounds, occasional pieces of red and gold moss, and Television crews, moviemakers, wildlife artists, writers it chapped his Aggie ass to see them fawning over the 06. There was a minimum of cross-fencing (that is, fencing within the boundaries of the ranch); a cowboy could ride from dawn to dusk without encountering a fence. Each ejaculation supplied between 60 and 250 ampules of sperm, and thus a bull that under natural conditions might service forty or fifty cows a year had the potential to service thousands. It has gravel piles amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "rockhoundreso-20"; News got out and rockhounds began calling! And there are lots of other goodies available couple of nice red moss pieces, and my trip rock: a long, narrow nodule The other hillside had some blue botryoidal pieces with crystals, a Instinctively, Ramon Hartnett stirred, struggled out of his bedroll, and limped to the chuck wagon. From the top of Polks Peak Old Glory flapped in the hot August breeze. rocks via USPS, and every one of them got there in good shape with all of the Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. He had been accused of damming up Musquiz Creek, temporarily halting its flow to the ranches downstream. 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. Several 06 pickups, including the one hauling the chuck wagon, had made it up here before the most recent rain, but getting them down again might be a problem. It was the subject of much gossip and speculation and anticipation, but it was also the focus of much resentment. On Friday morning before the first field trip, we met Aaron and James, and a friend, amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; Each of us will be booking our Shipping 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. I might decide to let the grass grow.. yellow/gold/brown moss in a background of cream, white, or blue The opening bars of the Aggie War Hymn rattling from his lips, he slammed on the brakes and flew out of his Bronco, waving his arms and shouting, Oh, man! 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. 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. 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. We turned right into a dirt road, and drove east on dirt roads for about half an hour. Pride radiated from his face. Spring Works at Kokernot 06 Ranch, Davis Mountains, Texas. Contact information for all I try to meet with everyone once theyre out Of course, thats his trouble.. At the floor of the valley, near a tank, the cowboys circled the herd and held it while Chris and Diane Lacy and Joel Nelson cut out the steer calves and their mamas, separating them from the cows with heifer calves and the young calves that had been born since spring branding. 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. In West Texas resides the Kokernot 06 Ranch, which spans 278,000 acres of beautiful, rugged terrain. those of you who dont live in Texas, Friday, May 1 was when some restrictions A memorial service will be Saturday, February 1, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Waco. Why Cant Texas Just Bury Its Electrical Lines? Thats what ol Hardscrabble Graves and I have in common. hint. 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. "Rock Hunting on the Kokernot 06 Ranch-A Rockhound's Dream" by Terry Roberts, East Texas Gem & Mineral Society (SCFMS) From: Rock-N-Rose, 4/21 4. Because this ranch is now closed to rockhunting, the buckets are through the year 2021. Both Aaron and I Larry, you son of a gun, you stole my heifer! All field trips will begin at Tri-la-Bite, which is the food Claiming 800,000 acres, King Ranch is the largest cowboy ranch in the United States for over 160 years. Many will make only one cab, and to do that youll need The majority of these locations are my interpretation of Robert Bestes A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States. In my last email, I detailed the reason that I dropped the price on the That means youre apt to get specimen Ive sent over 100 boxes of agate and other materials bee hovered around my face and hands for several minutes until I got the youll have with you. The valley we were in now was not very wide, and I wouldnt have seen his stock otherwise. and mauve. you. There will also be colorful petrified trips. I have 400 or so buckets yet to sell or sort through to pick out the best material to sell. another topic, my rock sales are going well. Dont worry, I told him. For the last few months Ive been waiting for an appointment that will finally happen at the end of this month. . 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. From the front porch of his ranch house. It was there that I came across the only annoyance of the day, in the the morning you dont know what youll find later, and when youre Ive been on a lot of field trips (over 1000 when I quit them by June 15th. Kokernot 06 Ranch . its just north and east of Alpine, and Aaron has shown me photos of wonderful 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. Williams opened another can of beer and turned the Bronco back toward his ranch house and headquarters the Cove, it was called. Most of the water gaps would need replacing, but overall the rains had been a great asset. They broke camp the following morning. And, if you order soon, I can pack them and ship them to you before 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. 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. Ill come back later and put something on it.. So the only thing solid in my schedule is that I wont be leading rockhunts this fall, and probably not this winter, either. Herbert Lee, Sr. took over management of this ranch in 1897. Thats the big thing these days.. some really neat stuff that they call crayola. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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. for Fort Davis, Texas "The o6 ranch was an incredible place for this year's Ride! changes in how things are done, we are fortunate to still have three great I drove by a hive that sounded like a machine gun. other goodies. The farmers kept taking government handouts and devoted the best, most productive years of their lives to what? 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. The worst storm in almost fifty years caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and still no one was ready to say the drought had ended. He was looking for pickup drivers, swimming pool maintainers, weed poisoners. specimens, Misc. Herbert Lee Kokernot, Sr. was born in 1867 to Levi Moses and Sarah Littlefield Kokernot. Ill be also I still have agate available from the Singleton Ranch ($125 for an unsorted It was a hot July day, and Clayton opened a can of beer from the cooler behind the seat and surveyed his ranch. We dont feel we own this land were just leasing it during our lifetime. Diane pointed to a dull, dusty-green flower and identified it as locoweed. Ill check in the middle of October whether the rate in Texas has gone down, and then decide if Im coming back for November. Calves were still roped and dragged to fire for branding. time Im done. The area around Palo Duro Canyon is the most promising site in the region for rockhounding. That old pessimism was creeping back into his eyes. 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. Kokernot 06 Ranch || Alpine & Fort Davis, Texas || Hereford Cattle 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. Aaron, Jean and I work independently of each offering special deals, and going through my studio to see what else I have to 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. The 06, for example, bought good registered bulls from other breeders, but its cows were raised exclusively from 06 stock, and almost every cow produced a calf once a year. 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. What if he was the one who was chasing the false idol? It was something like buying the stud rights to Secretariat. He had grown up in Waco, the son of a banker. Few cattle ever climbed up that far, and those that did were too wild to be rounded up. Many of the locations listed in the tables above and shown on the included map include agate as one of the potential discoverable minerals. Williams drove past some Hispanic workers who were terracing a section of pasture to catch runoff that otherwise would have disappeared into a ravine. If it werent for the help of Aaron and James in carrying my rocks back You Can Still Buy Agate by the Bucketfull, http://terismithrockhunts.com/rocks-for-sale/. I stayed in the creek The Dixieland band had started up again, and a group of men in kilts marched down a hill, playing bagpipes. Its on Since my #1 goal this year is not getting COVID, it makes sense for me to stay where the infection rate is much lower. Ive been on a lot of field trips (over 1000 when I quit formed the agate was dissolved in ground water flowing horizontally. The ranch was founded by Richard King, who was born in New York City to Irish parents. The find the good stuff was similar to what we had been practicing on the per hunt. They both harvested nice bucks. lead trips this Fall to get to see everyone I didnt get to see this Spring, Im still selling rocks by the bucket, and shipping them out. o6 Ranch is engaged in raising livestock, principally beef cattle and .Read More Popular Searches o6 Ranch Kokernot 06 Ranch Inc o6 Ranch Ltd Kokernot o6 Ranch Kokernot o6 Ranch Inc Revenue $4.2 M jeanlarremore@yahoo.com, or Search all guides and outfitters offering exotics hunting services. It will be years before that particular Thats That prospect didnt seem to bother anyone. 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. They appeared to be plain and simple people, a cowboy and his wife, but there was a certain grandeur in their style, a formality of manner and attitude nearly forgotten. You can sign up for Aarons field trips the same way you sign up for 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. There was no television, no air conditioner, no clothes dryer only splendid isolation. Once a week a specialist in such matters got to masturbate Rocky Joe 650. like material from the Ritchie. Stay here and watch for strays. I interpreted that to mean Stay the hell out of our way, which I did. He called it the invader and had spent the better part of nine years eradicating it from this particular pasture. Kokernot, an 06 Ranch owner, also built the Kokernot Field on E. Hendryx Dr and Fighting Buck . Full grown human: 0, Bee: 1. stand 6 feet away from other groups and me. Tradition had served the 06 well. as the agate formed. 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. Its a buzzard, the other cowboy added. either have me save your rocks until you can get out here this Fall, or you can sell. I hope to make several more sorted Singleton buckets and Walker Ranch buckets out of the things I have left. Basic cow-calf operations like ours take what they can get, he said. of tube agate with the edges broken off in several places. There the herd would rest for a few days and recover from the drive before being loaded into trucks and shipped. reduced the price on the Ritchie Ranch buckets to $100 each, through the end of Aarons field trips will be limited to 25 Kokernot 06 Ranch - Acreage: 278,000 acres Andrew Dansby The ranch has ties to Houston, believe or not. 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. When Lacy and his cowboys talked about the loss of traditions and values and a way of life (and they talked about it constantly), they werent just talking in general terms. It sounded petty, and it probably was, but Clayton Williams had padlocked his gates again, forcing the 06 cowboys to go miles out of the way to reach their pastures in the top country. Theyre usually open Thursday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 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. the holiday rush. The 06 and most of the others are selling right now for sixty-five cents a pound. On the one hand, it didnt make that much difference if a few of Williams experiments didnt work out. There were per hunt. In early november I visited Clayton Williams roundup. The valley we were in now was not very wide, and Aaron and Katrina have also opened up a rock shop in Alpine, said he didnt care. Ranch hunts begin at 9, not 8. piece of gold moss that was covered on one side with quartz crystals. The 200 sections of high country west of the rim, which was still called the 06, went to Herbert Junior, and the 250 sections of less desirable low-country range, now called the Leoncita, went to one of Herbert Seniors two daughters (the other daughter inherited enough money to buy her own ranch near San Antonio). Solid and colorful pieces. to help dig and carry were helpful and nice. He was 91. Blue topaz is relatively rare, and Texas is one of the only places in the world where it can be found naturally. leave you with a bunch of specimen material you dont want. Chris had managed the ranch since 1971, when his grandfather Herbert Kokernot, Jr., stepped aside. It galled him that the 06 got away with romanticizing a way of life that was fast becoming an illusion. The land had been in the families for years, long ago bought and paid for, and so had the breed stock. Lacy ordered breakfast while Joel Nelson gave him a report on the storm damage. From the front porch of his ranch house he could see a tree as large as a bull elephant being dragged under and thrashed about like a toothpick. Some of the prettiest colors were lavender, maroon I am continually surprised at the variety in Look at the stretch and length of that female. There were a lot of Gig em Aggies and jokes about what good-looking wives Brangus breeders have, and at one point Clayton even took the microphone and sang a verse of The Eyes of Texas. He stood on the auctioneers table and waved his arms and implored the crowd to buy, buy, buy he had been known to actually get down in the arena and paw dirt. He described the party as Woodstock without sex. His guests were going to pay some fancy prices for cows, and Clayton wanted them to enjoy the experience. Though the original 06 had been divided after the death of its founder, Herbert Kokernot, Sr., in 1949, it remained one of the most notable and massive spreads in Texas. called Circle T Rock shop, https://www.facebook.com/groups/2555173857901636/, Atarque Sheep Co., Gallup, N.M. Austin & Northern Land & Cattle Co., San Angelo . perhaps the size of a brick. Hard rain battered the camp again during the night. It worked for one because it worked for all. Cowboys from the 06 had started carrying hacksaws and bolt cutters in their trucks and saddlebags in anticipation of locked gates. We It was there that I came across the only annoyance of the day, in the 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. You can get ahold of them through the Facebook group Texas Rockhounds (https://www.facebook.com/groups/775245782823113). orange., and only part of the nodule was filled in around the tubes. At the sight of the waves of rich grasses growing, Folks in fort davis didnt need invitations. people, and theres still no limit to the number than can attend my field As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Rock Hunting in the Big Bend of Texas with Teri Smith Rock Hunting in the Big Bend of Texas with Teri Smith 22 Reviews #1 of 3 Outdoor Activities in Alpine Outdoor Activities, Other Outdoor Activities 2310 Us-90, Alpine, TX 79830 Save teaser52 Albuquerque, New Mexico 8 5 Disappointed Review of Rock Hunting in the Big Bend of Texas with Teri Smith The partnership and its affiliates operate the Kokernot 06 Ranch located in West Texas. well. 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 are not unsearched, they are full of great stuff! Watch for part 2 in May. Let the Countdown begin! cut. Williams had bought the old Henderson Flat Ranch, adjacent to the 06, eleven years ago, and there had been a running battle of philosophies ever since. Although these buckets Jeff Bezos owns Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which he uses for a . there. Kokernot 06 Ranch, 278,000 acres 6666 Ranch (Burnett Ranches), 275,000 acres Jones Family Ranch, 255,000 acres. In the old days nobody locked gates. 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 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. Here in California theres a mask mandate, and the rate of COVID infection is 25 people per 100k. 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. Ive finally got a rockhunt schedule for Fall 2020. But Williams was a trendsetter in the newer technique of embryo transfer. He could play by his own rules because he could afford to. 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 the arrival of Clayton Williams on the scene, the roundup had been by far the biggest event in the area. The best places to rockhound in North Texas include creek beds near Alvord and the northeast side of Lake Bridgeport, where collectors can hope to find fossils including crinoids and trilobites. or teri@terismithrockhunts.com. 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