List of Ranches and Stations

List of Ranches and Stations

This is a laundry list of famous ranches and cattle stations in both real life and fiction.

USA/Canada

Some of the better-known cattle ranches in the United States and Canada include:

*King Ranch in Texas
*La Escalera Ranch in Texas
*JA Ranch in Texas
*XIT Ranch in Texas
*Deseret Ranch in Florida
*Parker Ranch on the Big Island of Hawai'i
*Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico
*6666 Ranch - located in West Texas.
*Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site [http://www.nps.gov/grko/] , a part of the National Park Service, a working cattle ranch in Montana that preserves the ranching tradition of the American West.
*Spade Ranch in Nebraska
*Douglas Lake Ranch in British Columbia, which is also Canada's largest working cattle ranch.
*Thomas Ranch in Cochise County, Tombstone, Bisbee, Arizona since 1902.

Australia

*Anna Creek station
*Australian Agricultural Company - Australia's largest pastoral company
*S Kidman & Co - owners of the world's largest cattle station in Australia

Fictitious Ranches

Ranches that do not really exist but have been made famous in literature, films and television include:

*Southfork Ranch from the television show Dallas (TV series)
*The Ponderosa, from the television show Bonanza, also the Ponderosa Ranch movie set and later, theme park


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