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“The spring rains yielded to hot summer days, and it was the second hunt of the year ordered by the elders. Several six-foot-tall hunters of the Ni-U-Kon-Ska people quietly padded through the prairie grass that reached above their shoulders. These “Children of the Middle Waters” – called Osage by the early French settlers – were skilled traders, bartering the hunt’s game for implements and weapons at the mercantile store in town. The young store employee who met these Read More ...]]> 2854 https://competitivemarkets.com/drummond-ranch-ok-great-ranches-of-the-west-35-2/ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:04:13 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=2836

“I’m instantly enchanted by this family – by their appreciation of history, their concern for the land, their creativity. For example, Ladd’s wife Ree recently launched a modern Little House on the Prairie blog that gets more than 3,000 hits a day. Is she a pioneer woman like the last century’s Addie Drummond? ‘I am nearly a mirror image of her,’ she says. ‘Well, except I grew up in the city and never set foot in the country Read More ...]]> 2836