[ealgeone]

Is this a problem?

[simpson96]

“Is this a problem?”

Not at all. I found it interesting.

[Pollard]

Seems like an envy thing. More like a family that worked at a business for over 100 years and probably kept accumulating land over the years. Might have started with the fedgov 160 acre giveaway.

[married21]

Not a problem. Just more of an educational opportunity for people who don’t know much about cattle ranching and/or the West.

[Renfrew]

It’s nice to see an old ranching family still control their farms.

Where it becomes a problem is that many of the largest owners of farmland are tech billionaires who are buying up vast swathes of farmland.

Gates, Bezos, and Buffett all of huge holdings. It looks like neo-feudalism with a small number of aristocrats controlling a large numbers of peasants working land they don’t own.

[Pollard]

Did a search and found mostly hit job articles but did find this;

Drummond Land & Cattle Co. traces its roots to Fredrick Drummond, who came to the former Osage Nation Indian territory at the age of 22 in 1886.

Drummond emigrated from Scotland in 1882 and was hired as a clerk by John R. Skinner who owned the Osage Mercantile Company in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

So Frederick Drummond worked for someone else to begin with. Couldn't have been that rich then. The family stuck together and fathers taught their sons well and they prospered. Sounds like the American dream.

[OKSooner]

No, of course not. However there are those who now include Ree Drummond on the list of capitalists who are importing all manner of cheap hsit from China to sell at a profit, i.e. selling the Chinese Communists the rope they intend to hang us with.

Also while the numbers referenced may be presumed to be accurate, the graphic is most certainly not. There is no way that the Drummond family owns all of Osage county in its entirety. There are other people who live in Osage county besides just them. The graphic is misleading.

Conversely it's possible that they own land in Payne, Washington, and other contiguous counties in NE Oklahoma that the graphic doesn't show. Someone was just lazy.

Speaking for one's own self, there seems to be a point at which the fame, adulation, money, and sense of celebrity overtakes a person and they "go hollywood". Ms. Drummond seems to have done just that, particularly with tourist-trappy effect of her places in Pawhuska, and her own line of imported stuff from China, for sale at Wal-Mart. (Caveat: If the cheap kitchen stuff's really made in say, Taiwan or The Philippines, I take that criticism back. But one considers it a safe bet. JMO.)