Friday, May 22, 2015

The biggest ranch in America has gone on sale for $725 million


The biggest ranch in America has gone on sale for $725 million. At 510,527 acres, it is bigger than London and has hundreds of homes on its site.

W T Waggoner Estate Range is the largest continuous ranch in North America and spans six counties in northern Texas and has been under the same family ownership since 1849.

It has 20 cowboy camps, hundreds of quarter horses, thousands of cattle, 1,200 oil wells and 30,000 acres of cultivated land, the Associated Press reports, and has been dubbed “the Statue of Liberty” of cowboy culture.
  Sotheby’s International Realty is handling the sale and Briggs Freeman at the company believes the ranch is the largest and most expensive estate in the world.
The Associated Press reports the ranch has been the subject of a legal dispute among the heirs of the estate for 12 years, and the family members eventually agreed to list the estate after the court housing the case said it was considering ordering the auction of the range’s assets. 

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