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Local
History
The
6666s I am not sure what under the bridges and freeways.
Captain Samuel
Driving 1-35 through Dallas and
Fort Worth is an experience that
Burk Burnett paid
for the ranch back
in 1868, but he
to once. On another route, you can
would be surprised you only need to subject yourself
gaze out on a pasture where the
by Berry Cox to know that the owner has farmed wheat, feeding
cattle on it, where his land is dotted
asking price today
in $320,000,000. But then, he would with oil wells pumping here and
just made one of my countless probably also be shocked to know there and countless, gigantic wind
that a couple of basketball players
turbines turning for humanity. On
trips from Austin to visit my
I parents for Thanksgiving a few would cost more than that. Burk that trip, you have to give the owner
left the ranch to his only daughter,
credit for resourcefulness, but the
weeks ago. Having trekked multiple and she to her daughter, Ann picture of it just makes you shake
times to Amarillo, I have made it Burnett. These women have done a your head. Only thing missing was
a point to become familiar with spectacular job of keeping the ranch a merry-go-round and a snow cone
all possible routes, and over the beautiful and intact for all these stand.
years, I have firmly established my many years.
favorite one. I always head north I will be driving my favorite route
out of Abilene up to Guthrie, Texas. It is nice to know that such a special for Christmas this year to celebrate
Guthrie is a spotless little town of part of Texas still exists. Leaving out my mom and dad’s 78 Christmases
160 people; just outside of town of Austin, you are glad to get away together and 77 years of marriage.
is the headquarters for the 6666 from a town where the athletes They were a part of the ranching
Ranch. On my last trip, I found take a knee during the national scene in the Sunray, Texas area
myself once more, leaning on my anthem, don’t like the school song, countless years ago. At the 6666s, I
pickup, on a hilltop, looking out and quit the team whenever they will again stop, get out of my truck
at the 6666s. It is a view that takes see fit, where the mayor paints the and take it all in for a few minutes -
your breath away, puts a lump in streets and tolerates litter, trash and this beautiful and very special part
your throat and lets you see the stuff you normally find in a pasture of Texas.
original, unspoiled, real Texas.
I don’t know anyone on the ranch
and have never stepped foot on the HEATING, COOLING &
place, but on this last trip, I told
myself that I was going to write HVAC SYSTEMS
a letter to the 6666s and tell them
how much I love the place and how SERVICE REPAIR
many Texans appreciate how they
have kept the land as it was since
its beginning. You cannot see all Program Applies to
of the 266,000 acres, but at times, Existing Units, only.
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