The ruling of District Judge Dan Mike Bird ended more than 20 years of litigation between opposing branches of the Waggoner family who couldn’t agree whether to liquidate the property or split it up among themselves. Last year, a judge in Vernon-a town of about 11,000, 13 miles north of the ranch-ordered a sale of the property and appointed Uechtritz and a co-broker to market it worldwide. It’s been owned by the same family almost as long as Texas has been a state. and is known worldwide for its quarter horses.Ī smattering of the more than 4,000 items listed on the 183-page inventory of things being sold with the Waggoner ranch:ġ998 16-foot-by-80-foot Masterpiece mobile home The Waggoner is one of the 20 largest cattle ranches in the U.S. ranch, $175 million for a Colorado spread in 2007. At almost three-quarters of a billion dollars, the asking price is more than quadruple the biggest publicly known sum fetched by a U.S. At 510,527 acres (207,000 hectares), or 800 square miles (2,072 square kilometers), the Waggoner sprawls over six counties and is bigger than Los Angeles and New York City combined. Uechtritz (YOO-tridge) is one of two brokers entrusted with the singular task of selling the Waggoner ranch and everything attached to it, from the 29 tractors, to the cut-rock polo barn, to the emptied bottles of Old Taylor bourbon in an abandoned hunting lodge. He points straight ahead, then behind him, then left. “Everything you can see, as far as the eye can see, is the ranch,” he says. Squinting into the sun, Uechtritz gestures to the sky on his right.
Waggoner Estate Ranch 175 miles (280 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. The real estate broker is steering his black Ford F-350 pickup over one of the hundreds of miles of roads ribboning the W.T. “It takes days to see it all,” says Bernard Uechtritz. Ideal for Saudi oil sheiks, billionaire hedge funders, and dot-commers who can tell a cow from a steer. Fifteen-minute drive to rib-eyes at the Rusty Spur in Vernon. Colorful history of drinking and divorce. Favorite of Will Rogers and Teddy Roosevelt. Texas fixer-upper with more than 1,000 oil wells 6,800 head of cattle 500 quarter horses 30,000 acres of cropland tombstones for legendary cowboys, long-dead dogs, and a horse buried standing up.
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