，~[here~ jest no way to build another ~ovttlfor~， not In s~x<br > If[primes. --lock Ewin8， 1980<br > b nab who a e bu dozing the ranges， pouring non<br > O he construction ar eel beams in he name o p og e for the<br > crete and hoiBtln8 thick st allas-Fo t Worth， Southfork Ranch stands<br > as a e -， L is the symbol of a proud people fiercely protecting<br >no， however， Soutnlt~r~<br >Lheir rich culturalh~ or~h I f Braddock Bouthfork has largely preserved<br > Lo~a e m e owno<br > If or over a hundred and twenty years， despite its prox<br >he ranching way o t e D It t tehes over a hundred thou<br > to TheBgD，"razze-dazzle a as. sre<br >m~ i th g hi ff d g y p a ns dotted<br >sand sacs. Mile a ter role e en e r，ses， u s an ross ，<br > en ee wl in<br >withesttlesndhorses， neverfailtoproduoeabummgexotem td p th<br >the visitor s heart， For this is the land of Texas This is the unscathed horizon<br >that eawakes man s inheren yearning to be one with the land，<br > The ranch is the home of the illustrious Ewin8 family， but， more<br >[mportant~ertalnly to Dallas County--it is a testament to the alliance be<br >tween two often hitter adversaries: Great Ranches and Big Oil. For while ranch<br >after ranch across the state was violated by the maniacal search for raw crude<br >Southfork too was almost lost， and it was in an ironic twist of fate that Big Oil<br >proved to be its savior.<br > In l~il， Tennessee lawyer John Neely Bryan built a pole hut on<br > the east bank of the Trinity River and named it Dallas. pioneers started 5trag-<br >8Iing i~ in the l~40s， sharing Bryan s vision of a great port for steamboats<br > ~oming ~p the river from the Gulf of Mexico By the 1850s， a new group of<br > settlers had arrived--largely French， Belgian， German， Swiss， and Polish--<br > whose skilled artiaanB and unusually h~gh number of intellectuals promoted<br > the cultural development of the envisioned city. But a man with a different<br > dream， Enoah Southworth， steered clear of Dallas and bought up thousands of<br > acres roughly thirty-five miles to the north.<br > Southworth was a man in love with the earth， its textures， its gifts<br > of sustenance to the grasses， the animals， himself He had carefully chosen this<br > R$/e far hie ranch He had grown up hearing ol Bryan s boasts of Dallas as a<br > major boat terminal and in 1058 he shook his head in bafflement as he studied<br > the shallowness and unpredictable nature of the "n，inity River. knowing full<br > weLl that it oould never handle boat~. No， 9outhworth thought that water was<br > n~ meant for *hipping， it was meant for the regeneration of Ills.<br > He garnered one hundred thousand acres--all of which is still<br > imaat today--the choice Seetlons bountiful with water from a stream which<br > divide* at one point--hence the name 8outhfork--small ponds， and several<br > u~dar$~und Bprings. Other Sections， each equivalent to fi~2 acres， like Two<br > tek P~tare and Little From Country， were plentiful in the g， asnes and Iowdo<br > e grouad ve$etatlon needed to uupport cattle and horses And than there was<br > ~n area that bore little of any h~og， exGep a ets which the deed col ed<br > j~lstun ~， But it w.e land， and Soulhwol Ih bousht it alorug with the lest. q he<br > o~flo~ ~etlon 40 was heavy with salt i=that than the lhne~tone that perme-<br > ho the mot ol the alan， but he thought that porhaps one day he could a~me<br >