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Wishing to expand, but lacking capital, the two men found two
willing investors from Texas, A.P. Bush Jr. and Samuel Lazarus and
two from St. Louis, A.D. Brown and W. H. Carroll.
In St. Louis on December 29, 1883, the partners gathered to
adopt the by-laws and elect officers of the newly formed corpora-
tion known as the Pitchfork Land & Cattle Company. Gardner
was chosen to be general manager, a position he held until his
death in June of 1928.
Only seven managers have filled the vacancy left by Gardner.
These included Rudolph Swenson, Virgil Parr, D. Burns, Jim
Humphreys and Bob Moorhouse. Today, the ranch is managed
by Brooks Hodges.
The Pitchfork Land & Cattle Company stretches some 181,000
acres in three west Texas counties and Waurika, Oklahoma
known as the Pitchfork OK Ranch. The descendants of Eugene
Williams continue to operate the 133-year-old ranch in the same
conservative manner as did the ranch’s founders.
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