Drummond family from Oklahoma named 23rd largest land owner in United States

Tulsa World ^ | Nov 6, 2017

[nickcarraway]

Ree Drummond, also known as Pioneer Woman, laughs as she talks with employee, Karen Crawford and her husband Ladd Drummond at the grand opening The Pioneer

The latest report on the 100 largest landowners in the country is out from The Land Report magazine.

The Drummond family ranked 23rd on the list with 433,000 acres. The family includes Ladd Drummond, husband of Ree who is known to the world as the Pioneer Woman.

The report says Drummond Land & Cattle Co. helped write ranching history in Oklahoma.

Frederick Drummond (1864–1913) came from Scotland and married Kansas native Addie Gentner. Together their three sons became successful cattle ranchers in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Here is the top 25 list. See the whole list.

1. John Malone

2. Ted Turner (down 43,000 acres)

3. Emmerson Family (up 35,000 acres)

4. Stan Kroenke (up 522,000 acres)

5. Reed Family

6. Irving Family (down 4,000 acres)

7. Singleton Family

8. Brad Kelley (down 500,000 acres)

9. King Ranch Heirs

10. Pingree Heirs

11. Wilks Brothers (up 172,000 acres)

12. Briscoe Family (up 80,000 acres)

13. Ford Family

14. Lykes Heirs

15. O’Connor Heirs (up 80,000 acres)

16. Martin Family

17. D.R. Horton (up 131,195 acres)

18. Stimson Family

19. Westervelt Heirs

20. Simplot Family

21. Fisher Family

22. Philip Anschutz

23. Drummond Family

24. McDonald Family

25. Jeff Bezos (up 110,000 acres)

[Nifster]

He is number one in the list at the article

[o-n-money]

Is Nevada still part of the USA?

[laplata]

That makes sense. She probably took a lot.

[KC Burke]

Good description. The site of the Kansas, Little House on the Prairie recreation, is just to the north and we visited that and drove south through that cattle and ranch area this September.

We were also motivated by my wife’s recent reading of The Killers or the Flower Moon about the murder of Osage Indian’s early in the 20th century over schemes to get the oil rights some of them had. Great but little known bit of history.

[laplata]

I quickly glanced over the names and missed it at first.

Thanks.

[BAW]

I like her shows.

[Daffynition]

The Irvings [Canada] own a good chunk of Maine. Lots and lots of softwoods.

Must be why they call it ....

[GnuThere]

Well good for them! I had never heard of them until her show, but I love watching them on the ranch!
They are very down to earth and humble considering that wealth.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The fictional Ponderosa ranch included the entire north shore of Lake Tahoe and yes, the TV Ponderosa was in Nevada.

I remember one episode where it was stated that the Ponderosa was “1000 square miles” in size. A square mile is 640 acres, so the fictional Ponderosa ranch would have been 640,000 acres.

[mad_as_he$$]

True, and there is no way you could/can ride a horse from the ranch house to Virginia City for lunch - unless you start the day before. Not without killing it.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I live in Maine.

The state tree is the pine tree. Lots of spruce, balsam, and hemlock, too.

There is plenty of hardwood here as well....some oak, but most of the hardwood consists of maple, beech, birch and ash.

Maine is the most heavily forested state in the country. Some of those trees came crashing down, taking power lines with them, in a wind storm eight days ago. Nearly the entire state lost their electricity....some people still don’t have it back. Fortunately, I only lost power for four hours on Oct. 30th.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I guess Hop Sing prepared the lunch.

[blam]

Ted Turner was once asked about his 10,000 acre compound in Patagonia and what it was for. He said, "that's where I'll go when the revolution starts.

That was just something I read a long time ago. A search turned up this.

[JohnnyP]

I can’t watch her. One long smile fest.

[1217Chic]

If I had her net worth I’d have the same silly smile fest.....

[Ann Archy]

It’s in the middle of nowhere according to Ree when she starts her cooking show which is great and they have the CUTEST, most hard working family, and I’m pretty sure Christian.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

They’re not even close to the largest landowner;

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/291-federal-lands-in-the-us

[HonkyTonkMan]

I can’t watch either. Her phony “pioneer” schtick is annoying.

[yldstrk]

her nacho recipe is amazing

[mad_as_he$$]

There are a few episodes where they talk about going to town for Lunch. When I moved to the area I realized how crazy that was.