What the hell is a private ranch? As opposed to what, a public ranch??
Another MSM attempt to show a Republican as an elitist. I'm a nobody and was on the ranch as far back as 1968.
In lots of western states the federal government is the landowner. The rancher leases the land from them. Fortunately the annexation treaty between the Republic of Texas and the US government failed to get a 2/3rds majority in the House and Senate. If it had, the feds would own all the public land in Texas. The joint congressional resolution to annex Texas that passe by majority vote let Texas own all its public lands and minerals. Imagine how different Texas would be today if the feds owned all the minerals rights.
I was born onto one in '64 and ran like hell as soon as I could.
It was a private ranch, very elitist, only the finest
flatbeds onto which one might fling one's haybales.
A private ranch is where booze and wild women are allowed to be...with no law enforcement. My dad told me about such places in my youth and said..."son, stay on the farm...ain't nothing but pain and suffering at them private ranches". Dad was right. I coulda been the one shot by Cheney. Thank God I don't hang out with that crowd.