At 510,527 acres (207,000 hectares), or 800 square miles (2,072 square kilometers), the Waggoner sprawls over six counties and is bigger than Los Angeles and New York City combined. Uechtritz (YOO-tridge) is one of two brokers entrusted with the singular task of selling the Waggoner ranch and everything attached to it, from the 29 tractors, to the cut-rock polo barn, to the emptied bottles of Old Taylor bourbon in an abandoned hunting lodge. He points straight ahead, then behind him, then left. “Everything you can see, as far as the eye can see, is the ranch,” he says. Squinting into the sun, Uechtritz gestures to the sky on his right. Waggoner Estate Ranch 175 miles (280 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. The real estate broker is steering his black Ford F-350 pickup over one of the hundreds of miles of roads ribboning the W.T. “It takes days to see it all,” says Bernard Uechtritz. Ideal for Saudi oil sheiks, billionaire hedge funders, and dot-commers who can tell a cow from a steer. Fifteen-minute drive to rib-eyes at the Rusty Spur in Vernon. Colorful history of drinking and divorce. Favorite of Will Rogers and Teddy Roosevelt. Texas fixer-upper with more than 1,000 oil wells 6,800 head of cattle 500 quarter horses 30,000 acres of cropland tombstones for legendary cowboys, long-dead dogs, and a horse buried standing up.
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There’s also a free pork chop feed which is 4,000 pounds of pork chops and a free watermelon feed where they give out approximately 4,000 pounds of watermelon.įeatured image a compilation of screenshots from the embedded Facebook / TikTok video from XIT Rodeo & Reunion’s official accounts.FOR SALE: Largest ranch in the U.S.
That’s not all the 85th annual XIT Rodeo & Reunion has to offer. “Show up with an empty belly and we’ll fill it up for ya” – Kyle Burke, BBQ Director Come for the free BBQ and then buy your ticket for the Rodeo and the dance. No ticket to the XIT Rodeo & Reunion is required to participate. It all starts with digging out a massive bbq pit which is then prepped and volunteers help fill it up with the beef 10,000 pounds of beef to cook and then help remove it and serve it to their community. Today the World’s Largest Free BBQ event feeds between 15,000 and 20,000 people each year with 10,000 lbs of smoked beef shoulder clod, 1,000 pounds of cooked beans, homemade bbq sauce, and enough fixins like onions and pickles for everyone. The bbq started sometime in the 1980’s, roughly around 1983 according to BBQ Director Kyle Burk. The free BBQ hasn’t been around the entire time as the XIT Rodeo & Reunion which was a tradition that originated among the cowboys of the famed XIT Ranch and later after the ranch was split up grew into the major public event that is held to this day. Along with the standard rodeo events like roping and bull riding you would find at most any Texas rodeo, there’s something that makes the XIT stand out above the herd – it’s home to the world’s largest Free BBQ. If you ever wanted to explore the panhandle, a free bbq is a dang good reason to go.Įvery year since 1936 the XIT Rodeo & Reunion in Dalhart, TX has taken place roughly tripling the size of the panhandle town temporarily.
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