[YouTube] History of the Pitchfork Ranch - Somewhere West of Wall Street episode - 4.
The Pitchfork Ranch was started in 1881 as a partnership of D. B. Gardner and Col. J. S. Godwin. Formally organized in Missouri in 1883 and the founding shareholders were A. P. Bush Jr., Sam Lazarus, D. B. Gardner, W. H. Carroll, E. F. Williams and A. D. Brown.
Gardner and Williams had been boyhood friends from Mississippi. Prior to the 1883 formation of the holding company, Williams had been a sales manager for Hamilton Brown Shoe Company, and Gardner had been a surveyor in Texas.
The Pitchfork Ranch, is in King and Dickens counties. The headquarters of the 168,000-acre ranch is thirteen miles west of Guthrie on U.S. Highway 82.
The Pitchfork cattle herd is primarily Black and Black Baldie cows. Cattle are selected for multiple traits that include both maternal and carcass characteristics. Pitchfork calves are all Source and Age verified and all are USDA process verified as NHTC (Non-Hormonally Treated) and All Natural.
Around 4,500 mother cows grazing the home ranch, the cowboys have ample opportunity to work the range in a manner very similar to the cowboys who first rode for the brand.
Pitchfork cowboys have always ridden good horses. It developed the horse, the "Pitchfork Gray" which is a gray horse with a black tail and mane.
This is from Red's OFFICIAL youtube channel. In 2009 Red launched his television show, IN THE BUNKHOUSE WITH RED STEAGALL, seen on RFD TV. It ran for four years. His current show on RFD TV is entitled RED STEAGALL IS SOMEWHERE WEST OF WALL STREET. On this channel Red is going to share his TV show episodes as well as never seen before clips that because of time restraints could not be included in his episodes airing on RFD. There will also be some music shared here including Western, Western Swing, Country and Songs of inspiration. Singer, songwriter, poet, author and cowboy Red Steagall, hosts his award winning weekly TV show Red Steagall Is Somewhere West of Wall Street aires on RFD-TV on Mondays at 8:30 PM (CST), Tuesdays at 12:30 AM (CST) and Sundays at 6:00 AM (CST). 
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