By Bill Sontag
Special to LIVE!
January 9, 2008 Their ancestors faced challenges Kerr and George Wardlaw can barely imagine. Now, these young brothers see opportunities among hurdles their forefathers never experienced. The Wardlaw boys are bucking a trend of abandonment, a turning away from a lifestyle and agribusiness that – a century ago – put rural southwest Texas on the world stage of meat and fiber production.
Truth be told, they’re not boys at all, but young men, known well among ranching families as the sons of Martin and Elaine Wardlaw. Martin heads up the ranching clan and Elaine is both civic leader and vice president of Del Rio National Bank. But George and Kerr Wardlaw are the latest branches on a family tree that – 123 years ago – pushed roots into thin soils and tenuous water supplies of northwestern Val Verde County.
The brothers find strength in what they see as inexorable links between history, tradition, a strong work ethic, and living on the land – not close to the land, but on it. Kerr, 30, resides in the 68-year-old Martin Wardlaw White Ranch house. George and his bride of less than a year, Kristin, are within a stone’s throw of the headquarters in a modest cabin while they remodel another house for longer-range domicile. The ranch is halfway between Del Rio and Sonora, about 45 miles from either city, on U.S. Highway 277, then roughly 15 miles west along the gravel Dolan Creek Road.
George and Kerr are keenly aware of the attributes and the challenges of remoteness and the sprawl of vast ranchland acreage. It’s a long, one-hour drive to town, and at least another hour to any ranch boundary from headquarters. “Our roads here are so long and slow that we almost always lunch in the pastures. It’s almost always daylight to dark work,” said George Wardlaw. Distances inform daily life on the ranch.
The Wardlaws’ choices of livestock are anomalies in a country where sheep and goats have been royalty for more than 100 years: Brangus and Charolais for beef, and Corriente and Texas Longhorn cattle for rodeo stock. Both pairs are also interbred to achieve greater size. “It’s called hybrid vigor,” said George Wardlaw. To illustrate, he explained that the massive, white Charolais bulls brought here in the mid-1990s by his dad, Martin, bred to crossbred cattle –– show significant increases in weight. “This also shows up as increased fertility, disease resistance, and better milk production,” said George.
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The men plan to soon crossbreed Charolais with Herefords, in high hopes for larger, more robust cattle. Now, George explains, Brangus – a breed of Angus and Brahman – are typically 800 to 1,000 pounds, and the French Charolais commonly weigh in at 1,100 to 1,400 pounds.
Smallish, tough Corriente cattle, thought to be the descendants of the first cattle brought to the new world from Spain, are bred by the Wardlaws to Texas Longhorns. The offspring are prized specimens for rodeo stock, specifically for steer wrestling, team roping and steer roping.
The Martin Wardlaw White Ranch also supports herds of goats, both Boer and Spanish breeds. “We were raised on wool and mohair here, but now it’s cattle that have become important to us since the early 1990s,” George said. A first venture – an initial 1970s purchase of Charolais – didn’t work out as hoped. “With the drought of the mid-80s, we had to sell off most of that herd,” he added.
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The men are immensely proud of another Wardlaw first, the introduction of the Savory System of livestock rotational grazing, a division of pastures into more-or-less circular “pies,” with “slices” divided by electric fence that, from an aerial perspective, resemble spokes of a wheel. At the center of the “pie,” providing access to all livestock and deer within each “slice,” is a pivotal source of water. According to George and Kerr, cattle are moved from “slice” to “slice” for rotational grazing, giving rest to vacant segments.
The system’s namesake, Allan Savory, is one of the most controversial figures in livestock management, focusing a broad philosophy that many say flies in the face of tried-and-true range practices at his Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management in Albuquerque, N.M. But the simple grazing system on the Wardlaw White Ranch has yielded startling results, according to Kerr and George. “Well, it quadrupled our stocking rate,” said Kerr. “And now we have four Savory Systems operating, with ten times better habitat for deer, too.”
As with many ranchers who cherish their privacy, Kerr and George loathe talking about proprietary data – acreage and size of herds. The Wardlaw family owns the hills, canyons, bluffs and flats of the Martin Wardlaw White Ranch and leases parts or all of three more, totaling nearly 94 square miles of usable ranchland. Cattle on the land vary with seasons and management of herds, many of which are purchased from Mexican ranches to graze here, then shipped to northern feedlots or markets.
Numbers of cattle at any given time range from several hundred head to a few thousand, according to Kerr. “And we ship multiple truckloads of goats to market twice a year,” he added. There are enough sheep on the ranch to keep the family fed, to sell a few more, and that’s about it. “Oh, yeah, we both love lamb,” said George, flashing an enthusiastic grin.
Kerr’s confidence in his future as a stockman was offered in terms that a passionate teacher of history and a patriotic futurist might offer to eager students: “America will always be a nation of beefeaters, and to maintain our freedoms we’ve got to remain an agriculture-based economy. If all the foreign imports stopped tomorrow, we could still feed ourselves. Without that, we’d lose our ability to rise up against a corrupt government,” Wardlaw said.
In point of fact, Wardlaw is both a student and teacher of history, earning his credentials with studies and graduation from New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, N.M., then earning a Bachelor of Arts in history from Angelo State in San Angelo, Texas. When he was disabled with a leg injury last year, Kerr taught history at Sacred Heart School to third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students, returning to ranch life only recently.
George holds the academic stripes for the livestock and ranch management with an Associates degree in meat technology and a Bachelor of Science in meat science, 2003, from Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas.
Kerr and George received early tutelage from their grandfather, George H. McEntire, who wisely wanted the boys to see the nation outside of their remote corner of southwest Texas where the most exotic influence was easy crossing of the border to Mexico. In his 80s, McEntire took Kerr and George on a series of whirlwind auto tours of 34 states, visiting historic sites, national parks and national landmarks. Kerr and George remember that gesture and those experiences with profound gratitude.
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But George and Kerr are committed to ranch life as lifetime careers, which is not to say that supplementary income or civic service are ruled out in the future. “I could be a county commissioner and still ranch,” said George, “but I want to do this full time right now.” “And there’s that park [Devils River State Natural Area] just down the road, too,” said Kerr, thinking of a closer employment alternative focused on natural resource stewardship.
For the present, the brothers have immediate challenges to meet, not least of which is a labor force to maintain and improve the ranch. “We have a real problem getting help – help that we can rely on and trust. The workers coming across the border are not willing to come out here and learn to be cowboys anymore. This is resulting in our micro-management of a macro-sized operation,” said Kerr, adding that available workers now prefer staying in town, washing restaurant dishes if necessary, rather than living in the geographic isolation and hard work of ranch life.
“We have to fix roads by ourselves, and repair holes in miles and miles of fences. With all the rains we had this summer, we had 10 major fence breaks, and the rain made getting around on our roads pretty tough for 50 days.” Adding to the problems, he said, is that some of the fences are nearly original, made with 80-year-old wire.
The remoteness – at once a blessing and a curse – is keenly felt by the brothers. Kristin, George says, is an unusual woman who likes the ranch’s quiet, though she commutes 120 miles round trip to work and home each day. “Kristin is a tough girl. She killed 10 rattlesnakes this year, even though she wasn’t raised on a ranch. But we’ll get a house in town when kids need to be in school,” George said.
“I already have a house in town,” said Kerr, “but education of the kids is the only reason I can think of to move there.” But Kerr is a single man, not mindless of the many advantages to having a life companion. “I just haven’t met her yet,” he said, smiling ruefully. Meeting someone is difficult, first, because he lives remotely, and the probability of finding someone who’s willing to share that remoteness is even more remote, Kerr feels.
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His transition from school teaching back to the ranch illustrates his dilemma. “I wanted to get back outside, and Dad was asking me to come back.” He, George and three more siblings – Francis Weiss of Del Rio, Stella Braman of Refugio, Rachel Schmidt of Comfort – were all born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico to establish Mexican citizenship so they could eventually participate in family ranch holdings in that country. But all the ranching “eggs” now are in the Texas “basket.”
George is content. “I’m not real big on change, and I wanted to do what one of my ancestors started out here,” he said, explaining that George Washington Whitehead came to the southwest Texas region in 1884 after serving as a quartermaster in the Confederate States Army (CSA), then running a stagecoach line from Sonora to San Angelo, all the while studying law. George and Kerr both wear brass CSA belt buckles. “Yeah, we don’t think the Confederate flag is racist. We fly it,” said George.
The remoteness of their ranch has many ramifications, the brothers assert. The social and community loss is profound. “There were five families that lived out here along the Dolan Creek Road, and now it’s just us,” said Kerr. “There’s been a decline in our culture out here. When ranch kids marry town kids, ranch acreages usually just get broken up.”
George concurred, reiterating the brothers’ determination to hold fast to the land and the six generations of family ranching that it represents. “The more land you have, with fewer descendants, the easier it is to ranch, to keep it all together.”
I just entered this forum again to see if anyone had offered a rational answer to this fellow Hunt's prophesy. After considering leaving another comment, I have decided to forgo any further statements except to say that most of Texas true cowboys are no more than mere cannon fodder for our elite ruling class to incorporate into their current interpretation of Nazi Germanys SS Liebstandarte Adolph Hitler. The only question is what Stalingrad these political and patriotic pied pipers will lead these dumb sheep into that will result in their final demise. What a bunch of useless eaters. These freaks of nature can't even construct a simple sentence. But they can repeat "Aach tung, sieg heil mien OberstrubenKommando, Herr Bush,Clinton and Usamma ben Obama unt Company. Unter gershooten der Hutten rooter tooter puter. Haben du "Coons" a Hunt unt litche bitta? Hitler correctly used creamatoriums to exterminate people, but the only species he should have put on his one-way trains were rednecks.
Good evening, Mr. Troy C.. Before retiring for the night, I took one last look at this site's posts and, after reviewing your most recent comment, I thought I would leave you with one of several logical possible euphamistic "Stalingrad" locals for the "final demise of these dumb sheep." In 1943, the small portion ( approximately 110,000 men as I recall ) of Field Marshall General Von Paulus' 600,000 man German 6th Army that was not destroyed at the Volga River by Russia's mongolian hoardes or by General "Winter" ( courtesy of Mr. Schikelgrubber ), mysteriously vanished from the earth after Stalin had them marched through Moscow; actually, less than 5,000 were ever heard from again. I submit that wherever they do perish, you consider calling it " BAGHDADGRAD. " You will, of course, be required to replace freezing snow and ice with sand and scorching heat in your scenario. In both cases, however, both armies will have been unnecessarily destroyed by a megalomaniac - one occupied the Fuhrer Bunker in eastern prussia, while the other resided in the Oval Bunker in Washington, D.C..
Ill tell ya what i think. i dont think but i KNOW that all of yougringo,troy,harrison,pusley,eldom,juangravilobitch or whatever your name is plus this hunt are a bunch od dammed punk commies probably sent over here by the Russians or the Jews or the islamest camel drivers to destroy our childrens minds an our way of life. If none of yaal love this country enough to agree with our leaders then vamoose. they know whats goin on and they have our best interest an security in mind before they think of themselves. they promised this when they said the oath of office to do their duty. As for me and my family we will keep on workin for our ranch owners and they too have our security in mind. they have always fed us and cloted us and gaven us a place to stay just as long as we do what we are told. I think thats a fare trade for true security. America . love it or leave it and that means doing what our leaders think is best to protect us an this country. Get out and don not come back you crazy pissants!!!!!!!
As for you, Mr. Ho Dawg, it would be capracious to expend any effort to try and explain for you the numerous unique and very diverse and frequently dangerous concepts of communism, socialism, fascism, Marxism, Lenninism, or capitalism - all singularly dangerous to humanity when left unchecked. For your personal edification, I advocate and practice a majority of the economic concepts advanced in Adam Smith's small and simple book entitled " The Wealth of Nations."
Hey anonymos. may I suggest you and your white friends find a high cliff to jump off of while you still have the chance to chose how you leave this earth. mr hunt is right. You confused idiots cant even tell who is your ememy. you will not have social security and your sad children will have nothing because the people you all elected and did not have the guts to remove from office are the ones destroying US sovereinty by letting the Mexicans and other bad people come in this country. You and folks like you have made out Hunt and others like him to be the enemy. Maybe hes just trying to get all of you people to get mad enough to think instead of look for a easy race of people to blame. You poor confused nutjobs. I now know what to call all of you - fossils. I will ask all of you if you have any idea why every candidate for our next President, black,white,male,female,democrat or republican is prepared to let these people come in. ansewr.... because the people who really run this country have planned it so. And NOne OF US HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE. Man. dont blame the Mexicans. you blame the people you put in office so you could each make a profit for yourselves. But now its time for all of you to pay up and I am going to stay in this country and watch it happen
THE BLACK GRINGO
I am mortified at what I have read about the Wardlaws'! Don't you people know that envy is one of the seven deadly sins? I want to say to black gringo if you go back in history your kings in Africa sold their own people to the white man! And I don't even know what to say to Dallas Hunt except you sound more like a dumb shit kickin hick than anyone! If you do not like the way this country is or what it's about than I've got one suggestion, get the hell outta here! You think I'm thrilled that my future generations will have nothing or that I will not have social security because the people from our southern neighbor are coming over and taking all the benefits! I'm not a redneck or a shit kicker, but and educated person and can point out a dumb ass when a see one! You people are over the top!
Indeed, Mr. Anonymous, I am a "dumb shit Kikin Hick." I readily confess to this culpability because, prior to obtaining three degrees in two of this state's greatest conservative "Institutions" of higher learning, nature had selected me to be expunged from my mother's belly into the barred semi-arrid desert of west Texas. As a pre-teen I considered the flora, fauna and geographical beauty of this once pristine land to be a virtual Eden - my and my contemporaties' personal "garden", if you will, - one inwhich we could mutually explore or, if the spirit moved us, "kick shit." Unfortunately, nuture soon "incarcerated" us in one of west Texas' finest Independent school districts. During our waisted twelve year tenure, we were "educated" by some of the most bigoted, ignorant and "dumb" individuals we have, as a group, yet to encounter in what is now our sixth decade traversing this doomed globe. In elementery school, we were "taught" ( indoctrinated ) to "follow the company line." However, in our junior high years, we began to read volumes of diverse non-fiction historical, philosophical, religious and scientific books ( unavailable in our school's library - who would have thought? ), think for ourselves, utilize logic, draw deductions based on extensive available factual data, and express our rational conclusions. At this juncture, we observed that, contrary to the Constitution's amendments, the Bill of Rights was more of a pipe dream than a document expressing reality. After our attitudes were "adjusted" with numerous trips to the Principal's office, we temporarily willingly disregarded all of the overwhelming contradictory evidence that we had accumulated, and remained silent - until our bodies grew stronger and bigger. Once we had reached physical parity with our "guards", we realized that they were more willing to entertain our "warped" ideas and "unique" methods of stimulating social intercourse with semi-functional individuals, such as yourself, who cannot be emotionally or intellectually salvaged. As with a majority of the fossils we unknowingly kicked as children, you sir, were nurtured by your government to be a similar product of rapid, hydrologic, catastrophic inundation, the correct amount of heat and pressure, and a complete shutoff of the flow of oxygen - excluding, for argument's sake, the assertion by some that long epochs of time are also required to complete the task. Reduced to a more simple and readable equation for irredeamable simpletons such as yourself - You, sir, are among the walking brain dead, a vestigal remnant of nature's numerous redneck mutations, fearfully awaiting your approaching removal from the planet - by your government - not the Mexicans.
Yeah MR C FROM TEXAS - look at Mexico and the Mexicans. Look at what YOUR WHITE CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTIC "CHRISTIAN" GOVERNMENT HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO ALLOW MEXICO AND THESE MEXICANS TO DO. You are a typical dumb REDNECK and you will probably still be spouting off this racial gibberish when McCain or Clinton let these 'stupid' Mexicans and their 'stupid' country finish you and your family and future off. What a typical laimbrained fool who deserves everything he's going to get. Look at who is going to be stupid and docile then. It wont be Mexico and the Mexicans. Your wife, girlfriends and daughters will be giving birth to the NEW OLD MEXICO and singing the Deguela while they fly the Mexican flag over the Alamo again. Youre an IDIOT and you cannot be changed.
You are to tough Troy. I hope my next husband and his fiends will expose U and all of UR friends for what they R . You and they all are communists. if you will not love the USA then get across the rio grande and join the communists. i bet you all hate this beautiful wonderful and God fearing place. Its the most perfect cuntry in the world and full of great people and leaders who love this place. so get out if you dont agree with us. Ima Redneck aka Ursula Druse Thompson, 5th generation Texas gal
Ms Ima, by the time your "God fearin'" government exposes its true intentions for your and this nation's collective future, I hope that you are still able to head for and successfully cross the border. Perhaps you'll be the first Norte-Americana Gringa to be called a southbound wetback. If, however,you continue to believe that a border fence will be constructed to keep people out, you will be shocked when you discover too late that it was created to prevent your departure.
GAAAAWWWWWd ALLLmighty... these inbred jeds are regurtating the same simpleminded propaganda I heard from my high school teachers when I disagreed with them about anything. No wonder these tree swinging monkeys are soon to be removed by nature ( and Mexicans ). crap, another generation of these vaccumed skulled nitwits will produce some kind of reptilian transmutant that will no longer be recognized as human - It is apparent that this rednecks forefathers have been crossbred with some unknown creature that crawled out of earth's early prehistoric soup. I don't know if this woman is even capable of reproduction. If so, it should be outlawed and her species should be allowed to die off before we are all infected with a case of the disorderly dumbass.
I believe it is safe to presume that Mr. C from Texas had no response. Judging from the shallow comments offered by these other likeminded crackers, I don't believe they could hold a candle to anyone who suggested a different approach or interpretation of history from that of these Sontag or Outraged Texan boys. Their good old boys routine is the same old narrow minded song and dance they have been singing for decades. Well it will not be long from now when they experience the shock of their blindless minds. Yeeee Haaaa
So, Mr. C in Texas ..... are you saying that by looking at Mexico, Mexicans and Mexican history, people will be able to tell how your ancestors were able to "steal all of this land from Mexico" and ship my Jiggaboo ancestors to the USA to build your grandparents empires ? Please answer the Black Gringo.
I can't help but notice an interesting and important comment Posted by BlackGringo on January 21, 2008,
"How did these heathens manage to steal all of this land from Mexico and ship us over heare to build their empires?"
Well, just take a look at Mexico, Mexicans, and the country's history - perhaps that answers the question!
I commend you, Mr. "C", for revealing your true feelings. Let's see if I have it right: A brief look at Mexico, Mexicans, and their country explains how confessed heathens, such as yourself, President Polk and "Old Fuss and Feathers" ( that's General Winfield Scott, to you )managed to steal Mexico and conspire with a few likeminded Hottentot and Zulu monarchs to enslave millions of people. In a criminal court of law, your statement would be entered as direct evidence of your complicity. Enough said....
Happy MLK Day everybody! Nice to see such an engaging and interesting discussion on the birthday of of the man who demanded that we judge one another by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
DAAAMMMM !!!! I cant believe how Juan has wound up all of these pickup driving crackers. I just shows to go you that these KKK Mason hicks cant take a joke. My brother is a prince hall mason but the whities wont associate with him because they think heaven is only for their Ivory snow brothers. I get a kick out of watching the cops follow these San Angelo Kickers driving down Chadbourne with their jacked up pickuptrucks, rebel flags, shot gun racks and beer cans falling out of their truck beds. Then these cowboys always have to prove they are real men and get $hitfaced with the bulls. Then they get beat senseless. Thats why all of their children are stupid. How did these heathens manage to steal all of this land from Mexico and ship us over heare to build their empires?
DAAAAMM!!!!! I can't believe you pickup driving dixie crackers are railing at Mr. Dictionary just because he hit you where it hurts. However I do like the entertainment all you John Wayne hicks are providing me. This just shows to go you that all of these KKK and Mason members think alike and very little at that.
Unfortunately, Juan, I agree. I know that I and my family will have to soon pay very dearly for what our ancesters did to you and the poor whites and this country. One of my relatives who I am now ashamed of owned a ranch not far from San Angelo. His greed led him to seek several elected offices. He told his constituants that he only had them in mind and then he bilked them and their small town dry. Now the place has lost most of its population and will soon be a ghost town except for the other greedy interlopers who stepped in to fill the void and manipulate the few remaining kind and trusting hispanics. Now these new leaders of the community are controlled by sons and daughters of the same ranch families who contributed to the towns destruction. Please forgive our family for what this man did.
DJH
Mr. Hunt:
It is crystal clear by your incessant rambling that you thoroughly enjoy talking trash with your thesaurus in hand.
Have you ever made the acquaintance of anyone in this Wardlaw family? I do not think so. It seems you are so filled with hatred for people you do not even know.
Do you hate them for being born into this family where their great-grandfather worked hard for a living and their grandfather and father worked hard to maintain that living on their working ranch? Or do you hate them because you weren't?
I can say from knowing these people my whole life, there is no "wanna-be cowboy" about these cowboys, they are the real deal! So maybe they tuck in their jeans, carry big guns, or wear big cowboy hats,... so what? What's it to you?
I saw them being raised to work and respect that for which their family worked so hard. They are respectful and hardworking young men, not the spoiled brats you claim them to be. They were raised working as hired hands for their father, as was their own father.
We live in America! Americans have the right to own land and the right to bear arms. It seems that you are extremely angry, or envious, that they are excercising these rights.
Outraged Texan
p.s. For those of you who do not know, John Wayne was an actor. He portrayed a cowboy in his many on-screen roles. That's what happens in Hollywood.
Mr. Outraged Texan: I haven't owned a thesaurus in years, although I must admit that I needed one tonight when, for the life of me, I was unable to remember how to spell "res Gestai", and I still can't recall. While I have no anger or hatered for the Wardlaw family, I suggest that it is presumptious of you to conclude that I do not "know" them or the Whites. As an aside, I reccomend that you revisit the definition of the word "rights" and perform an exhaustive search of its many legal applications in american jurisprudance.
A mesage to all - I've read and considered all of the comments relating to this sad story and I have concluded that while Mr. Hunt is controversial, he did provide a whole list of problematic subjects that few people out here have ever dared to discuss with me. No one seemed to be truly informed enough to disprove any of his serious charges. Actually, if some of you readers would did deep into this nation's history and compare it to biblical concepts and predictions, you would be forced to conclude that that the USA will be destroyed from forces witnin and without its borders. I think Mr. Hunt and the others who agree with him may be right when they say that America's ranchers are a rare and soon to be extinct breed and the rest of us too! DJH
I believe that I may be familiar the family to whom you are referring. Actually, I hale from Val Verde County and a family of railroaders. One of my very close kin ( I choose not to mention his name ),married into another family who knew the person/persons/group you belong to. He said and still says that they are all as you say and he still laughs at his inlaws that were foolish enough to let him marry their less than intelligent daughter. He claims that he will soon inherit quite a lot of his wife's portion of her fathers/brothers estate/ranch/pigs/goats or cattle farm(whatever - I cant remember.) The bottom line is that he really hates them all and all he thinks about is when and how hes going to take them and her to the cleaners. I think he developed his hate for them while he had to pass their ranch everyday while he was laying railroad track. Anyway, he is one guy who took these "superiour" dudes to the bank and I think thats very funny. they all deserved it.
Don Plaster
Donnie: I know you have not seen or spoken to your "Kin" in many years,but I believe you have his story and family somewhat confused from listening to your "Kin' and some of the friends he used to bring to your home. If you are talking about Tommy, he did not marry the girl. Tommy was my assistant Foreman on both of several Division and System gangs and we both worked the area west of Del Rio you are taliking about. Consequently we spent a lot of time together on and off duty for several years. It was one of my family members who married into that family and not and not any of the Plasters. Other than that, your tale is correct. The boy does hate thses farmers and the whole place, as do most of us who had to spend money there. Not to worrey, the SP closed shop there and virtually murdered the town. Like you, however, I am still waiting for the remainder of those hypocrites to perish and blow away. PS- I cant believe I heard from you on this forum. Give me a call. P"X"P
I know the Wardlaws and you my friend, are absolutely right, there is no "wanna be cowboy". The Wardlaws are fine people. These two young hard working men are a rare breed they took the road rarely traveled to make a living and for that I respect them and admire them.
A thorough historical evaluation of the vast majority of similar rare hard working and admired young men reveals that the only unique road they traveled was through an unusually bloody birth canal;after their skulls were squeezed into the blinding light from these dark and seldom traversed caverns of Calvinistic purity,they experienced the shock of nature's enlightenment - their mortal coils had won the ovarian lotto which entitled them to a future of guaranteed employment and eventual recognition as members of Texas' upstanding ruling white elite - the Patron Rancher. While nature randomly washed these delusional and emotionally handicapped nimrods onto their grandparents'land, nuture is currently joining with the laws of entropy, natural selection, and America's "conservative" political leaders to expunge them and the contents of their frail minds from the real estate their thieving grandpappies ripped off of the Mexicans and American Indians. The most hilarious aspect of their final demise is that these semi-functional "capitalistic" skunk shootin' MORONS are about to ELECT the "patriotic" Republican and Democratic varments who are selling them out to their nation's enemies. What a select group of peckerheads.
Es perfecto, Senor Hunt! Man you gave it straight to the outraged Texan. He cant seem to get over the fact that John Wayne is a figment of his narrow imagination. Wait till they all see that the Aztecas and Mazatlan are very real. then let us see who screams 'me no Alamo'.
Mr. Hunt:
The only thing made crystal clear by your incessant rambling is that you thoroughly enjoy talking trash with your thesaurus in hand.
Have you ever made the acquaintance of anyone in this Wardlaw family? I don't think so. You are so filled with hatred for these people you do not even know.
Do you hate them for being born into this family where their great grandfather worked hard for a living and their grandfather and father worked hard to maintain that living on their working ranch? Or do you hate them because you weren't?
I can tell you from knowing these people my whole life, there is no "wanna-be cowboy" about these cowboys, they are the real deal.
I saw them being raised to work and respect that for which their family has worked so hard. Not at all the spoiled brats you claim them to be, they were raised working as hired hands for their father, as was their own father.
We live in America. Americans have the right to own land and the right to bear arms. It seems you are extremely angry, or envious, that they are excercising these rights.
Outraged Texan
p.s. For those of you who didn't know, John Wayne is an actor. He portrayed a cowboy in his many on-screen roles. That's what happens in Hollywood.
Looks Like some of the "posters" need to work on grammar/spelling.
God Bless John Wayne & the Wardlows...
FROM: Juan
Listen to these simple minded rebel whities. God bless John Wayne and the Wardlows they say. Wayne was a Iowa nobody and his name is Marion Morrison. He is just like these gringos in that he lived a faked life of pretending to be somebody he was not, he acted as a type of real white americana. John Wayne exists only in the empty brains of stupid white landowners ( thiefs just like the man said )and as far as God was concerned he believed God was maybe a female if you listen to his recorded comments. he did not even know who or what God was. This is the real 'man' these rexal crap kikers want to be like. Every body in my familia knows what this other bud says is going to happen is true but these dumb want to be cowboys ( because they inherited land ) do not have the mind, ot he knowlege of history to know that they WILL LOSE EVERYTHING THEY HADS GIVEN TO THEM PRETTY SOON WHEN OUR PEOPLE TAKE IT ALL BACK. VIVA LA REPUBLICA and GO HOME TO ENGLAND YANKEE WHITE THIEVES WHILE YOU CAN!
Hats off to the Wardlows for keeping the spirit of the Ranchers/Cowboys alive!!!
Listen guy, do not compare ranchers with cowpokes because the two were never the same and they sure arent now. Even Ranchers are not the same anymore. You cant blame people for making fun of these two spoiled brats. I mean, I donn't know any real hardnosed ranchers that would have waisted expensive 223 ammo or used quality rifles for killing enemy soldiers on skunks just to make up for having a problem in the phallus department and then have a news article written about their ability with a gun. Back when we were growing up in Pecos County our daddy would have beat us to death if we were not able to take a $40.00 .22 Long bolt action rifle and drilled a helpless skunk with a 4 cent bullet. Frankly I expect that unfortunately when enough Al Qaeda get across our borders they won't be too scared of kids like this and their expensive habits and military equipment. Just about any kid raised in earlier days Texas would be able to handle and outshoot these modernday rangers who collect the heads of helpless and unarmed animals with their elephant guns. Wait until they are confronted with our countries enemies and let's see what they feel like when a determined and skilled small group of people overrum them with slingshots and a ability to really survive in the desert.
Let's recapitulate: (1.) You call me racist - My ancestry is English; I am a Gringo - A Pure red-neck, raised in west Texas' Big Bend, where huge ranches once existed before they were sold by people like Buster Babb to the United States for the love of MONEY over private ownership of land. (2.) You state that these arrogant red-necks can act as they please on "their" land as long as there is "rule of law" - Question: (a) What and who make it their land ? - a White man's Warranty Deed? Another government can create, file and legitimize paper. (2) Whose law ? - the White man's ? Another government can create and enforce "Laws". (3.) You state that Mexico is corrupt - True enough; But the people and government of the United States have contributed to and profited from this corruption and they are the most corrupt in the world because they hide their crimes under the cloak of Jesus Christ - and Christ will return, but neither you, these ignorant self-deluded cry-baby church goers or a majority of Americans will be pleased when he does. He's NOT going to establish the United States or their "Organized - Incorporated concept of Church" as Heaven on Earth - He's going to destroy it and most of its conceited self-righteous membership. (4.) Who denegrated these morons' current subjective "right" to own firearms - I just said their "Big Guns" would afford them little protection - and they won't. The Bill of Rights were a wise addition to what WAS a great Constitution - NOW, YOUR Judges TELL you what the Constitution means; they presume that you cannot read a simple sentence - and, by my personal observation, you can't. (5.) Finally, these idiots NEVER did and NEVER will fight to defend their "homeland" - that's why so many of their fellow travelers' ranches are defunct. These selfish assholes, and their kind, were more than willing to let their neighbors perish. As a result, when the final fall of this nation does occur, these pampered little shit-kikkers MAY have the balls to defend and die for their personal property, but few others will die FOR or WITH them - probably not even their inbred trophy brides; they and their kind let hundreds of others fall while they prospered - SOON, it will be THEIR TURN - and they will perish as millions of other "less deserving", Predestined to Hell" or " Otherwise Low-caste" Americans perished - ALONE and with NO SYMPATHY.
Mr. Hunt, I could hardly care less what your ancestry is, or anything about your redneck tendencies. All I do know from reading your illiterate bombast is that you are free with both your profanity and your mindless vitriol about two young men you don't even know. How sadly ignorant is that?I wrote this article and am very proud to have made the acquaintaince, and hopefully the friendship of these two fine men. If I've actually portrayed them to be the demons you seem to perceive in your cloud of arrogance, then I have erred grieviously as a writer and judge of human character. But based on your foaming rhetoric, I doubt I've been misguided about yours.I hope our LIVE! readers will take your clear bigotry into account and step back from sharing your unwarranted judgments about George and Kerr and their distinguished family. This Web site sadly attracts and sometimes encourages people, including an unfortunate few with an unreasoned ax to grind, regardless of who may be maligned in the process, and I just wanted to set the record straight: You don't know these men, you don't know me, and you are wholly unqualified to comment on their lineage, their character or their integrity.
WOW !!! I just joined San Angelo Live! because my neighbor told me to read the exchange between these 2 people about Texas ranching. Well... this guy Sontag says the other dude dallas is illiterate and mindless. Sounds to me like this dallas dude has given some serious thought to his statements and Id be willingb to bet that he knows a lot more about these rich king pins than this dude Sontag thinks.Also it seems pretty clear that the man isnt mindless and unable to form a complicated sentence. his words need people with serious thought forming ability to get a grip on and think about. I cant tell a thing about his caracter but I personally know a lot of these ranch familys hes talking about and none of them are distinguished for a thing but being stuck up jerks who think that they are Gods gift to the rest of us peons and my grandaddy told me about alot about some of them. Maybe you did err as a writer Mr Sontag.
thanks for letting me share my thought
Danny l. Gravilovich
Unqualified?: Subjective
Illiterate?: Again,subjective
Arrogance?;Bigotry?;Bombast?: Your objective assertion has unassailable merit and substantiates my bona fides as a qualified redneck.
Profanity?; Alas, kind sir, please do not interpret my intentional extension of courtesy to you and these two fine specimens of increasingly rare western art to be profane. As previously demonstrated in both of my liberally kind comments, I made every effort to exclude any excessive linguistic animosity that I may have for these two fellows and what they represent. In no way did I reduce to writing even one verbal clip of my numerous nasty vitriolics magazines into your or these poor misguided individuals'eyes; had I done so, all three of you would have been irreprably blinded in a Masonic flash of enlightenment which none of you would have been able to intelligently absorb. I much prefer to maintain a simple "Jack and Jill" approach when attempting to stimulate the average below-average closed Tom Green County mind. I did find it strangely stimulating,however,when I was finally able to get at least one response from one of west Texas' semian Australiopithicus Robustus' premier editorial representatives. Any west Texan, upon natural death, could, instead of being embalmed, opt to be taken to a taxidemist and stuffed. Then, his or her body could be placed in a museum and displayed as prima facia evidence of the missing link between home erectus and homo sapian. You may now have the last word, kind sir; after all, it's your quarter! Signing off now to create more havoc among the brain dead -lldh
I'm so weary of seeing the same dribble come from what will hopefully be the spoiled and pampered last generation of white, Masonic, west Texas' "original pioneers". They're all spiffied up in their jacked up trucks, tucked in boots, wide brimmed resistol hats and sportin'their $1000.00 AR-15's - totally prepared to preserve and defend what their arrogant Calvinists' grandparents and great grandparents told them was predestined by God Almighty to be theirs forever. Well boys, others will very soon be profiting from watching "your" critters comingle, and they won't be depending upon government subsidies to fill their gas tanks to take them to church so that they can thank the creator that they are smarter than the poor white trash and child-like greasers who get food stamps or work like "niggers" for crybabies like you who are lamenting their circumstances. When the original heirs to "your" land cross the Big River in droves, you and your families will be exposed as the true predators, and your Big Guns won't hold them back. If any of your family survive, I hope that they are forced to cook, clean and comingle for and with the Mexicans - and the Mexicans Mexiwill. When that happens, the last bloodline of your defective gene pool will have dried up on a once again pristine land and its rightful owners. Adios, amigos
what a bunch of racist drivel. I'll tell you what, as long as there is rule of law in this land, those boys can do whatever they want on their land. This is unlike corrupt mexico where land ownership isn't much of a right, especially with drug runners running that country. I'll defend to my death that boy's right to own an AR-15. From the sounds you are making he'll need it for parameter defense of his homeland.
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