• King and his 600,000-acre (2,400 km2) King Ranch. When King died, Kleberg took over the management of the ranch in 1885. Under his tenure the ranch grew...
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  • Alice Gertrudis Kleberg, and her husband Robert J. Kleberg Jr. inherited over 800,000 acres that were incorporated as the King Ranch in 1934. The appraiser's...
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  • Robert Kleberg is the name of: Robert J. Kleberg (King Ranch) (1853–1932), Texas rancher Robert J. Kleberg (1803–1888), German immigrant who fought in...
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  • the King Ranch and later married Alice Gertrudis King, the youngest daughter of cattle baron Captain Richard King. Texas A&M University on Kleberg Family...
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  • Kleberg Robert J. Kleberg (Soldier) Robert J. Kleberg (King Ranch) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kleberg. If an internal...
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    in the famed King Ranch, which also extends into neighboring counties. The county was organized in 1913 and was named for Robert J. Kleberg, an early settler...
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  • 10, 1972; Weapon for Immobilization and Capture Cattle prod Robert J. Kleberg (King Ranch) Woo, Elaine (February 13, 2009). "Jack Cover dies at 88; scientist...
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  • Caesar Kleberg (September 20, 1873 – 1946) was an American conservationist who was born in Cuero, Texas, and was involved in the Norias Ranch Raid. He...
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    prod is said to have been invented by Texas cattle baron Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. of the King Ranch around 1930, although versions were sold as early as 1917...
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    Kleberg was the only child of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr. and Helen Campbell Kleberg. Robert Kleberg Jr. was the son of Robert Kleberg and Alice King-Kleberg...
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  • were stealing horses at El Sauz, the division of the King Ranch on Norias' southern border. Kleberg immediately telephoned the U. S. Army commander at Fort...
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    II and her description of the Reata Ranch were based on Robert "Bob" J. Kleberg Jr. (1896–1974) and the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas. Like the over...
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    "Bandana", then "Kleberg", and finally "Alice" after Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, the daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch. Alice originated...
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    Kingsville, Texas (category Cities in Kleberg County, Texas)
    campaign into Mexico. In 1899, after many failed attempts, King ranch manager Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., was finally able to tap into an underground lake of...
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  • across the King Ranch, which was owned by the Kleberg family, would save his political career. When their heretofore political ally Robert Kleberg, Richard's...
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    Kieckhefer Container, Eddy Paper (absorbed by Weyerhaeuser). Robert Kleberg Jr., King Ranch, Texas; inherited wealth: cattle, oil, land. John E. Mabee,...
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  • superior in every respect. Bob Kleberg, the Bob in the quote from Northway, who was one of the owners of the King Ranch and who managed it from the 1920s...
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  • early 1951 Sir Rupert and Lady Clarke visited King Ranch in Texas. Sir Rupert, asked the late Robert J. Kleberg, who had founded the Santa Gertrudis breed...
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    Mother Goose. 1948. Tethered. 2008. By Amy MacKinnon. Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch. 2017. ISBN 9781595348173. New York Times (1988). "Toni Frissell...
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    John B. Ragland Mercantile Company Building (category National Register of Historic Places in Kleberg County, Texas)
    and ownership was transferred to Robert J. Kleberg & Co. In 1950, that entity was dissolved and it was sold to King Ranch Inc., as a new subsidiary known...
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  • This is a list of U.S. county name etymologies, covering the letters J to M. Lists of U.S. county name etymologies for links to the remainder of the list...
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    instead of its county seats, is also available. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro...
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  • Russell Theodore Roosevelt Ruth Roach Steve Murrin Pawnee Bill Lillie Robert Kleberg, Sr. Holt Hickman Charles French David Crockett Samuel Colt Buffalo...
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    Corpus Christi, Texas (category Cities in Kleberg County, Texas)
    and largest city of Nueces County with portions extending into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. It is 130 miles (210 km) southeast of San Antonio...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson (redirect from L.B.J.)
    the door to knowledge remained closed to any American. After Richard M. Kleberg won a 1931 special election to represent Texas in the United States House...
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  • mares plus nine other yearlings which marked the successful entry of Kleberg's King Ranch into the Thoroughbred racing and breeding business. Trainer Max Hirsch...
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  • sixteen-year-old apprentice, riding Better Self for owner Robert J. Kleberg Jr.'s King Ranch and trainer Max Hirsch, Boland earned the first stakes race...
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  • damsire was Man o' War. Trainer Max Hirsch purchased High Gun for Robert J. Kleberg's King Ranch at the 1952 Keeneland Yearling Sale for $10,200 ($117,032 in...
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  • King Alfred the Great Alger, Ohio – Russell A. Alger Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)...
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  • have immediate success as a stallion in Kentucky, he then stood at Kleberg's King Ranch in Texas, and there sired a pair of top-class racehorses: Assault...
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