My object is a ranch that has been in my family for five generations. The ranch is expansive and wide open. The rugged ground is filled with dirt, rocks, mesquite trees, and cactus. My family uses the ranch to run cattle and lease it to hunters. On the ranch we raise Angus and Angus Hereford cross cattle. The ranch has been a part of my family since 1889. My ancestors from my mom´s side came to the first thirteen colonies from Northern Ireland in the mid 1700s. The ranch was established by my great-great-grandfather, James Jefferson Lafayott Glass. He worked on multiple ranches before creating his own homestead. Though our ranching nowadays has changed from when J.L. was alive, we still live on my family´s legacy of ranching. Ranching has always been a part of me and my family's life from spending hours working cows to riding horses. Ranching has brought my family closer together helping at the ranch branding, ear tagging, vaccinating, and castrating cattle. It is important to keep the ranch in our family because of the past generations who worked to move out west, establish, and maintain the ranch for generations. Ranching has taught me so many life lessons, one of which being to get up and rub some dirt on it.

– Elyse Guy

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