Empire : the pioneer legacy of an American ranch family
"Martin Gothberg started with a humble 160-acre homestead in 1885 and continued to expand and develop a modest ranch that eventually included tens of thousands of acres of deeded land. As the Second Industrial Revolution escalated in the late 1800s, so did the demand for petroleum products. What began with a demand for beef to feed the hungry cities of the eastern United States fostered the demand for wool to clothe them and graduated into a dem...
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