List of Ranches and Stations

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

[edit] 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 [1], 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.

[edit] Australia

• Australian Agricultural Company - Australia's largest pastoral company
• S Kidman & Co - owners of the world's largest cattle station in Australia
• Thomas Ranch in Cochise County, Tombstone, Bisbee, Arizona since 1902.

[edit] Fictitious Ranches

See also: Movie ranch

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