，~[here~ jest no way to build another ~ovttlfor~， not In s~x
If[primes. --lock Ewin8， 1980
b nab who a e bu dozing the ranges， pouring non
O he construction ar eel beams in he name o p og e for the
crete and hoiBtln8 thick st allas-Fo t Worth， Southfork Ranch stands
as a e -， L is the symbol of a proud people fiercely protecting
no， however， Soutnlt~r~
Lheir rich culturalh~ or~h I f Braddock Bouthfork has largely preserved
Lo~a e m e owno
If or over a hundred and twenty years， despite its prox
he ranching way o t e D It t tehes over a hundred thou
to TheBgD，\"razze-dazzle a as. sre
m~ i th g hi ff d g y p a ns dotted
sand sacs. Mile a ter role e en e r，ses， u s an ross ，
en ee wl in
withesttlesndhorses， neverfailtoproduoeabummgexotem td p th
the visitor s heart， For this is the land of Texas This is the unscathed horizon
that eawakes man s inheren yearning to be one with the land，
The ranch is the home of the illustrious Ewin8 family， but， more
[mportant~ertalnly to Dallas County--it is a testament to the alliance be
tween two often hitter adversaries: Great Ranches and Big Oil. For while ranch
after ranch across the state was violated by the maniacal search for raw crude
Southfork too was almost lost， and it was in an ironic twist of fate that Big Oil
proved to be its savior.
In l~il， Tennessee lawyer John Neely Bryan built a pole hut on
the east bank of the Trinity River and named it Dallas. pioneers started 5trag-
8Iing i~ in the l~40s， sharing Bryan s vision of a great port for steamboats
~oming ~p the river from the Gulf of Mexico By the 1850s， a new group of
settlers had arrived--largely French， Belgian， German， Swiss， and Polish--
whose skilled artiaanB and unusually h~gh number of intellectuals promoted
the cultural development of the envisioned city. But a man with a different
dream， Enoah Southworth， steered clear of Dallas and bought up thousands of
acres roughly thirty-five miles to the north.
Southworth was a man in love with the earth， its textures， its gifts
of sustenance to the grasses， the animals， himself He had carefully chosen this
R$/e far hie ranch He had grown up hearing ol Bryan s boasts of Dallas as a
major boat terminal and in 1058 he shook his head in bafflement as he studied
the shallowness and unpredictable nature of the \"n，inity River. knowing full
weLl that it oould never handle boat~. No， 9outhworth thought that water was
n~ meant for *hipping， it was meant for the regeneration of Ills.
He garnered one hundred thousand acres--all of which is still
imaat today--the choice Seetlons bountiful with water from a stream which
divide* at one point--hence the name 8outhfork--small ponds， and several
u~dar$~und Bprings. Other Sections， each equivalent to fi~2 acres， like Two
tek P~tare and Little From Country， were plentiful in the g， asnes and Iowdo
e grouad ve$etatlon needed to uupport cattle and horses And than there was
~n area that bore little of any h~og， exGep a ets which the deed col ed
j~lstun ~， But it w.e land， and Soulhwol Ih bousht it alorug with the lest. q he
o~flo~ ~etlon 40 was heavy with salt i=that than the lhne~tone that perme-
ho the mot ol the alan， but he thought that porhaps one day he could a~me
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