The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Test Drive Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 2, 2003 ;     581 words ......than 17 places, the 2003 Ford F-150 SuperCrew King Ranch edition either says King Ranch or has the ranch's brand visible somewhere...things reminded us we were driving an F-150 King Ranch: one, the superb leather upholstery featuring...

Famed ranch ranges into new businesses

International Herald Tribune;  August 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ......not the easiest time for cowboys on the King Ranch. On such days, the tools of modern ranching...would hardly recognize the enterprise. King Ranch Inc., the privately held company that...business from a Houston high-rise. And now, King Ranch is betting its future on areas that have...

Cowboy Ranch Shifts to Citrus and Pecans

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  October 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......1999 and 2005, you can look it up. It's King Ranch in South Texas - $8.3 million in subsidies...Working Group): So what we see here with King Ranch is a very strong draw on the federal...Environmental Working Group, points out that King Ranch is hardly a small family farm. Mr. COOK...

THE BEST LITTLE EMPIRE IN TEXAS VAST RANCH EMBLEMIZES LONE STAR STATE

The Boston Globe;  March 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The story of the King Ranch is full of lore, bandits, gunfights...and damn lies. But the story of the King Ranch can mostly be told by statistics...tales, this may be the biggest. The King Ranch is an empire - of cattle, energy...

Ford's new King Ranch leads the pack.(AUTO WEEKEND)

The Washington Times;  August 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ......WASHINGTON TIMES Ford's newest F-150, the new King Ranch, carries on the indisputable dominance of Ford's...automaker has teamed up with world-renowned, Texas King Ranch to create the King Ranch SuperCrew - the limousine of pickup trucks. F-Seri...

FIT FOR A PLACE BIGGER THAN R.I.

The Boston Globe;  March 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ......to put together a spread the size of King Ranch in Southeast Texas, you'd have to buy...wheel-drive. Here it is: the 2005 Ford F-150 King Ranch, a working beast stuffed with comfort...whatever fate arises. You can buy the King Ranch in bigger brute form (the 250 and 350...

A fistful of dollars. (successful King Ranch of Texas)(includes a related...

U.S. News & World Report;  July 24, 1995 ;     700+ words ......hard and dirty and smelly, but it's what King Ranch cowboys have been doing for more than...erica's southern tip. Through the years, the King Ranch has fought for survival against Union...have a lot of resources to manage. The King Ranch's current diversification efforts loom...

Texas Supreme Court Sides With King Ranch; Judgment From 1883 'Settled the...

PR Newswire;  September 18, 2003 ;     338 words ......120-year-old dispute over the rightful ownership of land at King Ranch in Nueces County. The high court reversed a 2001...wrongly denied their claim to 15,500 acres of land at King Ranch. King Ranch attorney John Thomas of Houston's Hicks Thomas...

Texas Supreme Court Ruling Adds Appeal to Legendary King Ranch...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  September 21, 2003 ;     648 words ......the 150th anniversary of the legendary King Ranch. In a couple of weeks there will be celebratory...threatened property at the heart of the King Ranch empire. The Texas high court reversed...denied a claim to more than 7,000 acres of King Ranch property. It is a convoluted case ...

?King que?(Automotriz)

Reforma (México D.F., México);  April 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ......en 1853 Enviado Kingsville; Texas.- El King Ranch esta en Texas, a unas dos horas de la...no están en el negocio del campo, King Ranch ha sido durante muchos años el rancho...el sur de Texas. Decidió fundar King Ranch cuando en uno de sus viajes entre Brownsville...

Texas-sized recession hurts ranch

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 26, 1987 ;     527 words ......has forced drastic changes on the famed King Ranch, which has brought in outside managers...family to work on the Rhode Island-sized King Ranch, until he was laid off May 5. "Under...District on the ranch. On Nov. 11, the King Ranch Inc. board of directors elected three...

Tough Ford pickup has interior fit for a king 2007 Ford F-150 King Ranch

Naperville Sun, The (IL);  June 15, 2007 ;     549 words ...Saddle up and we'll take a ride in the King Ranch, which is an upscale version of the Ford...The rugs have an imprint that reads "King Ranch 1853," which is an 825,000-acre ranch...Under the hood of the 2007 Ford F-150 King Ranch 4x4 is 5.4-liter Triton V-8 engine that...

A King of the Road Unfit for Dirty Work

The Washington Post;  October 1, 2006 ;     630 words ......the cargo bed of the 2007 Ford F-150 King Ranch Super Crew pickup truck. It was dirty...It's too bad I had to use the F-150 King Ranch. To understand, imagine having spent...an equivalent sin in loading the F-150 King Ranch, easily one of the most luxurious pickups...

Texas A&M University-Kingsville, King Ranch Create New King Ranch...

PR Newswire;  February 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Juarez today announced the creation of the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management. The new...was developed in cooperation with the King Ranch as part of the Ranch's 150th anniversary...interdisciplinary graduate degree program, King Ranch is leading the funding campaign and ...

Nostalgia, Prestige Rules Kingsville, Texas, Ranch Auction.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ......were drawn by the sheer nostalgia of the King Ranch's first cattle and horse sale since 1988...that amount, $179,000 will go to the new King Ranch Institute of Ranch Management at Texas...family has held a hunting lease on the King Ranch since the 1930s, spent $20,000 apiece...