Category: cattle ranches

Destination: Cambria

Cambria, on California’s Central Coast, is one of those special destinations. It offers a spectacular coastline with an abundance of cliff-side trails, verdant hills and valleys ideal for cattle ranching, vineyards and open-air landscape painting. Architecturally Cambria features a remarkable collection of original 19th-century salt-box homes and an early 20th-century downtown district known as East…


Texas Cattle Ranchers Enduring Hardship and Loss As Extreme Drought Bakes the Land

CROSS PLAINS, Texas—Sheila Payne Blackburn always believed that cowgirls were a special breed that never quit when things got tough. Now she knows even the sturdiest of them have their limits. When her father died of COVID-19 in early 2021, Blackburn found herself alone to continue the farm and ranch that had been in her…


The Extraordinary Challenges Texas Ranchers Are Facing

CROSS PLAINS, Texas—Sheila Payne Blackburn always believed that cowgirls were a special breed that never quit when things got tough. Now she knows even the sturdiest of them have their limits. When her father died of COVID-19 in early 2021, Blackburn found herself alone to continue the farm and ranch that had been in her…