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. Willow Springs was one of the oldest camps on the 06, a throwback to the days when cowboys lived year-round in line camps on remote sections of the ranch. time Im done. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. rocks protected! bits in a chalcedony background, often in a regular pattern. bed for a while, then ventured only a little ways up each hillside. He served on the board of trustees for both Baylor University and Texas A&M University and as President of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Almost every institution in town had been owned or controlled or at least deeply touched by the Kokernots the First National Bank, the newspaper, the Masonic lodge, the Baptist church, the various cattle associations, Sul Ross University. I take checks, PayPal, Many had surface pits that were in a regular pattern, as if Sprawling between Alpine and Fort Davis at 108,000 acres, the ranch spans some of the most beautiful high desert country in Texas. roadcutgeology@yahoo.com. The house where Chris and Diane Lacy and their two children lived was on high ground not far from the creek bank, flanked by barns, sheds, a trailer, and a corral. agate ($150 per bucket), Agate from Mexico ($175 a bucket) and all kinds of Williams and his crew worked on horseback; they could just as easily have used pickups or ever motor-scooters. Teri, Note: The rockhunts on the 06 Ranch are being led by Aaron Thomas and A student at Sul Ross, Branham was looking for part-time work breaking colts. run fairly small. There were Agates and Specimens from Ranches Now Closed for Rockhunting, Agate and Specimens from Ranches Still Open for Rockhunting, Agate From the Big Bend Region But Not Sorted by Ranch. 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. Chris thought about it a moment. He had no antelope, so we helped him round up some of ours and put them in one of his pastures. Ill also be leading additional trips now and then, so if you have a special request, let me 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. A big part of our ranch was converted to cotton farms, he recalled. Anytime you see bees close to the hive, its gonna rain, Elliott said. He settled his family near Columbus, Texas. Kokernot, an 06 Ranch owner, also built the Kokernot Field on E. Hendryx Dr and Fighting Buck . We havent needed this in a few years.. 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. trips. The there was supposed to be good agate basically everywhere. Walker Ranch specimen buckets have been raided for Walker Ranch cutting agate, The stadium was later turned over to Alpine Independent School District and Sul Ross University also plays its home games there. Last Spring, I mailed more than 150 boxes of 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. like material from the Ritchie. It is something like 130,000 acres of stunning country. Nice polished Fire Agate from Mexico. well, if they have room for social distancing. little valley, I never got very far up the hills. The best places to rockhound in West Texas are the areas around Big Bend, Alpine, Van Horn, and Sierra Blanca. there was supposed to be good agate basically everywhere. Kokernot o6 Ranch PO Box 918 Ft Davis, Texas 79734 Ranch Manager Chris Lacy ranch house: 432-426-3380 cell: 432-556-6948 chrisdawnlacy@rionet.coop Hunting Manager Lance Lacy cell: 432-661-9695 brandeekatherine@gmail.com Horse Program Kristin Lacy Cavness cell: 432-386-3402 kristin@ellysonabstract.com General Counsel Kokernot 06 Ranch, Inc. and 06 . to the vehicle, I wouldnt have gotten a third as much. The 06 brand was registered the subsequent year, and the Kokernot heirs are still running the operation. They looked up from their grazing as Chris stopped the truck and walked toward them. I like to make money., Clayton Williams grew up in hardscrabble, catclaw country. The ranch was founded by Richard King, who was born in New York City to Irish parents. Claiming 800,000 acres, King Ranch is the largest cowboy ranch in the United States for over 160 years. Despite the absence of cross-fencing, the same 06 cows were found, year after year, in the same 06 pastures. had hunted before. Each of us will be booking our This was a new place Aaron and James had only hunted once before. Whats difficult to explain is a cattle auction at which apparently intelligent people pay a huge sum of money for a single animal. I imagine all those TV cameras slowed down the 06. I told him I hadnt seen any TV cameras, even though I knew he was just indulging a little hyperbole. He also built Kokernot Field in Alpine for his team and since then, semi-pro and some minor league games have been played there. are not unsearched, they are full of great stuff! 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. Keep him till January, Saunders said to Joel after they had loaded the animal into the trailer. As you may recall, The ranch is still owned and managed by descendants of the original founding Kokernot family, Chris and Dawn Lacy. Field Trip Report: 06 Ranch (also called Winn VI Ranch). Along There he met Diane, who had grown up in San Antonio. Texas. Few cattle ever climbed up that far, and those that did were too wild to be rounded up. They ate quickly, talking in soft voices about the days drive and other things. to the vehicle, I wouldnt have gotten a third as much. There was, of course, much to be pessimistic about in this fragile and volatile country. It was a mercy killing, recalled Hallie Stillwell, the 87-year-old matriarch of the Stillwell Ranch, south of Marathon. Rio Grande, in gravels S of Rio Grande City. 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. On It has gravel piles Few people cared enough about their job to make it their lives. June is upon us, and with it the the left side of the street, across from the Sonic Drive-In. There apparently was a technical violation: though Williams front gate was in wet Brewster County, the ranch house, where the party took place, was in dry Jeff Davis County. We hunted there for another 3 hours, got back to the cars at 5 p.m., and On Friday morning before the first field trip, we met Aaron and James, and a friend, Today as I was washing the rocks and sorting them, Ive found about 10 James Winn VI. They broke camp the following morning. On the one hand, it didnt make that much difference if a few of Williams experiments didnt work out. hunts so you can come out to the Big Bend and go on hunts ion 4 When Clayton and his wife, Modesta Claytie and Desta to their friends invited large numbers of guests to their ranch, as they did at least once a year for their annual party and cattle auction, tank trucks were sent out to water down the twelve miles of road between their house and the front gate. Once that schedule is published, I will try to schedule my bands, mostly blue, grey, black and white. His effort failed, but his brazen attempt to impose his will on the local folks stuck in the craws of ranchers like Chris Lacy and his grandfather. 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. any color from white through the buff, pink, and red colors into brown, and the Two hundred twenty square miles of lush, rolling pastures, sheer rimrock bluffs, and jagged canyons stretched across the top of the Davis Mountains from just north of Fort Davis to the city limits of Alpine, thirty miles to the south. Unless things change materially, however, I will be leading rockhunts next March and April. 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. I miss seeing yall back there, and I hope to see a lot of you when Im there in the Spring. Many movies and commercials have been filmed there. Its on my bucket list to go look around out there. opalized agate that we found on the Ritchie, with much smaller opalized Full grown human: 0, Bee: 1. What it amounts to, one of them said, is that hes subsidizing beef with oil., On the other hand, Clayton Williams, unlike many of the other newcomers, was no dilettante. The other hillside had some blue botryoidal pieces with crystals, a Diane pointed to a dull, dusty-green flower and identified it as locoweed. This is the kind of country that doesnt adapt itself much to change, he said. That means youre apt to get specimen I really know nothing about it, except that The best rockhounding locations in South Texas are generally associated with the gravels of the Rio Grande, but locations further inland towards San Antonio should also be considered. Grande, from Southern Colorado through New Mexico and the Big Bend of of Stillwell Ranch material ($250 per bucket), South Larremore Ranch rocks What Happened? Watch for part 2 in May. Even if not explicitly listed, it would not be uncommon to find agates at most of these locations. Lawrence C. Lacy, a longtime Waco banker remembered by family members for his kindness and passion for tennis, died Sunday. Most had been married at some time, but cowboying could take its toll on a marriage. He was 84, bent and slender as a twig; he looked as though he might blow away with the next gust of wind. Below is my complete rockhunting schedule for the Spring of 2022. 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. Its a buzzard, the other cowboy added. the holiday rush. They rounded up 1800 cattle in four days and later shipped another 10,000 yearlings from pens. Most land then was open range, but Herbert gradually acquired title to what became the 06. All 50 States Answered, Agate (moss, plume), Chalcedony, Jasper, Quartz crystals, Calcite, Calomel, Cinnabar, Fluorite, Mercury, Terlinguaite, Agate (pompom), Aragonite crystals. Presently Goddard spotted another rider scrambling up a ravine of brush, chasing a group of seven or eight calves. I'm Mike Rhea, and I'm a professional Geologist with a passion for rocks, minerals, and everything related to Geology. Chris had managed the ranch since 1971, when his grandfather Herbert Kokernot, Jr., stepped aside. chalcedony. His family had a mercantile business and a large cattle ranch. This site is devoted to sharing my love of rocks with you. Your host and guide for your stay is Kris Kallina. Back in those days we shipped a lot of cattle from the o6 as well as other ranches. it worth it? Weve done a lot of things for him, she said. to hold the piece in your hands while you grind a flat spot to glue the dop The area around Palo Duro Canyon is the most promising site in the region for rockhounding. hours before its to start, I will cancel the hunt and make other plans. The way I hear it, Clayton said, the 06 pays its cowboys twenty dollars a day, unless they bring their own camera, in which case they get twenty-five. Singer Charlie Daniels had actually worked an 06 roundup he was a pretty fair hand, they said. 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. Mask wearing is required for the fieldtrips: you must wear a mask or you dont go on the field trip. dense pattern that included red, blue, black grey and gold, and appears They get a million dollars and more for some of those bulls, Barney said. important to check with the leader of your field tip about unusual there. The Kokernot household's 06 Ranch registered within the state since 1837. the morning you dont know what youll find later, and when youre If you would like further information, please cut. Hi Yall! You can also read through my free rock identification guide and mineral identification guide which are filled with useful information and tools. Most of them were more interested in hunting deer and antelope than raising cattle, and those who did get into the cattle business usually approached it without regard for the old traditions and without love of the land. There will also be colorful petrified What's more Texas than cowboys, beef, and billionaires? Aaron will be leading trips on most Great story. He supported the old Bloys Cowboy Camp Meeting and helped to establish the Paisano Baptist Encampment at Paisano Pass and was a long time supporter of the Cowboy Revivals held in the summers out there in the Big Bend. 10 acres in Brewster County, Texas. Nails Creek Park, in draws and farm fields. They currently happen only on Sundays, and are limited to 10 rockhounds there had been filaments of aragonite or another material in the cavity The majority of these locations are my interpretation of Robert Bestes A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States. Pieces are generally small. Fort Davis was accustomed to tourists. It was a great experience working with some really good people. Clayton held center stage throughout the auction, wiggling and dancing and inciting the crowd like a berserk cheerleader. In early november I visited Clayton Williams roundup. The hunt at the 06 was amazing. Located in West Texas in the Davis . Walker. Some of the agate and jasper there looked He lost the ranch during the drought of the fifties, but Clayton recovered most of it after making his fortune in oil. When the mother cows had gotten worn out, they, too, would go to slaughter, ending up, in the inglorious argot of the industry, as cheaper cuts.. Unfortunately for rockhounds, the law prohibits them from publishing their names or contact information online. But the dream had not died completely. The horses were almost as expert as the riders. I usually make about seven dollars an acre here, triple what most cow-calf operations make. as the agate formed. Indeed, to them money was the whole point of the enterprise. Feel is everything. Ranching is getting to be a business where people have less faith in experience than in new, untried methods. that is brecciated common opal with a background of chalcedony. Originally from France, the Kokernots fled to Amsterdam at the time of the French Revolution. The drought wasnt necessarily broken, Joel was quick to point out, but it was cracked for at least eight or nine months. If Given Texas reputation for defending private property, this is probably even more important than it is in most other states! Williams Brangus ranch was horseshoe-shaped, surrounded on three sides by the 06; it was necessary to cross Williams ranch to get to the 06s Willow Springs camp or to gain easy access to the top country, just as it was necessary to cross a part of the 06 to reach Williams ranch house. Everyone had prayed for rain, but this was ridiculous. Ron Goddard, a young cowboy from Montana, had been married when he worked at the 06 the past spring. lead trips this Fall to get to see everyone I didnt get to see this Spring, Aaron, Jean and I work independently of each Cowboys from the 06 had started carrying hacksaws and bolt cutters in their trucks and saddlebags in anticipation of locked gates. In my last email, I detailed the reason that I dropped the price on the In other areas of Texas many of the largest ranches had survived because of oil; the discovery of petroleum reserves on those ranches had, in effect, subsidized the cowboy traditions. David was educated at Southwestern University in Georgetown and later at University of Texas in Austin. I believe Ill have perhaps 10 more by the leave you with a bunch of specimen material you dont want. Fasken Oil & Ranch, a significant oil drilling company was born when oil was discovered on the ranch. Money might be an object, old-line ranchers believed, but it was far from the point. quartz crystal covered tubes. Plastic drinking cups advertised Claytons gas pipeline company, Clajon. [Re: rolyat.nosaj] #7842920 05/18/20 01:40 AM: minutes we were at an area that was the other side of the mountain we the website www.takeahiketexas.com. Davids son Lee served with Terrys Texas Rangers during the Civil War, and later Lee Kokernot and his brother John bought the 06 brand and started a cattle business in Gonzales. Herbert Lee Kokernot, Sr. was born in 1867 to Levi Moses and Sarah Littlefield Kokernot. In 1900 his son was born, and in 1912 he became sole owner of the 06 a spread thereafter referred to as Herbert Kokernot and Son. and Big Bend Crystal and Botryoidal Specimens, $100 per bucket. Regards, Nature understood conservation far better than man did, and it was the wise rancher who understood nature and bent to her will. Membership will run Once were rockhunting, however, you and your group can remove the I stayed in the creek This is a simple operation, a good operation, a safe operation.. I cant tell you what Ill get, but itll be about double what theyre getting now.. for He overgrazes, and he root-plows the native grasses and replants with hybrids from Texas A&M. The native brush and grasses were as pristine now as they were in 1535 when Cabeza de Vaca camped here. agates that came from there. At over 150,000 acres, the o6 is one of Texas' biggest ranches, stretching from near Alpine all the way to Interstate 10 near Balmorhea! spring! lake, and they have some incredible agate in them. I bought a lot of heifers and some steers and sent them north, where a heavy snowfall had made grass plentiful. Kokernot Ranch is covered by the Whirlwind Spring, TX US Topo Map quadrant We could see the remuda strung out on the other side of the canyon, moving across the top of the next ridge to a camp called Number Eight, where we would meet up with the other groups around noon and saddle fresh horses before driving the herd down to headquarters. lbs. I wondered how he could round up 1800 cattle in four days when it took the 06 four weeks to gather about half that. His trouble is he has no feel for the land. 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. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. the lower part of the nodule, which was solid, there were filaments of His only shelter had been two pieces of tin and a strip of canvas. They saw an example of it next door. COVID is still with us, and its still killing people. Goddard and three others were generally referred to as the Montana cowboys, though only one of them, Bob Blackwell, was from Montana originally. This year beef on the hoof would sell for about 65 cents a pound, the same as last year and the year before. On my hunts, I give you The fact is, its not like it was fifty years ago. These so-called corporate, or recreational, ranchers had become a taproot for new sources of rancher pessimism. He had grown up in Waco, the son of a banker. Me, Im very intense in my business. Right now, with COVID and the resulting View Texas History Notebooks profile on Facebook, View TexasHistoryNotebooks profile on Twitter, View texas-newmexico-historys profile on Tumblr, Dr. Junius William Mottley, namesake of MotleyCounty, Follow TEXAS HISTORY NOTEBOOK on WordPress.com. 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. Their eleven-year-old daughter, Kristin, was away at a girls camp. Some were recipients due to calve in a few months (they sold for an average of $39,000), others were pairs of bred cows with heifer calves (they sold for an average of $71,000), and still others were unbred cows (average price $30,000). At the sight of the waves of rich grasses growing, Folks in fort davis didnt need invitations. I was invited to hunt on the o6. down. What if he was the one who was chasing the false idol? Their neighbor on the next ranch over was one of the newcomers. own trips. can send you a bucket that Ive curated, taking the best cutting The Kokernot 06 Ranch. It didnt make sense to. Copyright 2022 Rockhound Resource | Birch on Trellis Framework by Mediavine, Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Southwest, Palo Duro Canyon, outside State Park boundaries, Prairie Dog Town Fork of Red River, in banks and gravels, Between Red River and US 62, in area deposits, Gravel bars of creek beneath bridge 1.8 mi. You know what the difference is between a calf from a breeds top line and a calf bred from average stock? Barney asked. We hunted there for another 3 hours, got back to the cars at 5 p.m., and 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. Since Im really allergic to bee stings, I took his advice and The year before, it was a British movie outfit filming a piece called My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. Its on When one cowboy dismounted, scraped away the scum, and drank from the tank, another said, Hey H.A., theres a dead bird in that tank. H.A. minutes we were at an area that was the other side of the mountain we . Oilmen and bankers and lawyers and other urban creatures bought land the way they bought objects of art. 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) Save; Preview; Lonestar Premier Outdoors . combined two of the unsorted buckets and removed most of the stuff that wont 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. If you arent coming out here for So the only thing solid in my schedule is that I wont be leading rockhunts this fall, and probably not this winter, either. Along Interesting folks! These piles were the bottom of an ancient By the end of October the last of the cattle had been shipped. It was still dark, but he could see the flicker of ropes in the remuda. said he didnt care. Aarons a bit younger than I am, so he will have another 60 years of rockhunting ahead of him, which yall dont want to miss! The farmers kept taking government handouts and devoted the best, most productive years of their lives to what? The other end of the nodule was Most expensive of all were the flushes (eggs) of supercows, whose average price was $137,000. Cowboys hated plowed land, as they hated potted plants, artificial insemination, embryo genetics, and anything else not directly rooted in the past. It was the subject of much gossip and speculation and anticipation, but it was also the focus of much resentment. rocks via USPS, and every one of them got there in good shape with all of the sell. Lacy ran his operation well. 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. Bailing hay, much less selling it, was as foreign to the 06 operation as selling zebras something else Clayton Williams had done. Just real cowboys and cowgirls showing the skills they use in their day jobs. This year I estimate Ill make twenty dollars an acre. that, in retrospect, I should have left there. while, and took a different branch of one of the roads. Now there were two such events; Williams big bash, held every August, had become the second. In a normal year Id be attaching a schedule of my field trips to this email. If some rich oilman was willing to pay $200 an acre, a rancher had to be crazy to raise cattle on it. everybody to wear a mask whenever were grouped together, and have your group on my website, www.terismithrockhunts.com. Most of the water gaps would need replacing, but overall the rains had been a great asset. youll have with you. Polks Peak was off to our left. David Kokernot acquired the Kokernot 06 brand in 1837. Agates can be found in most parts of Texas, especially in West and South Texas. It doesnt take that long to use it up.. But in the highlands of West Texas, there had never been any significant oil finds. Search all guides and outfitters offering exotics hunting services. Rockhounding on Public Land: Laws and Regulations, Can You Collect Rocks in State Parks? La Media Lodge welcomes you to South Texas hunting and fishing. What if ten or fifteen years from now his land was as barren as the land he remembered in Fort Stockton? In about 20 small and big pieces of that, some partly buried and a lot on the So as of now Ill stay out here. He later served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. 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