Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph of the Fort Davis in Fort Davis, Texas.

Photograph of the Trueheart-Fowlkes-Neill House in Fort Davis, Texas.

Photograph of the Trueheart-Fowlkes-Neill House in Fort Davis, Texas.

Photograph of the Trueheart-Fowlkes-Neill House in Fort Davis, Texas.

Photograph of a West Texas wash on the Sproul Ranch.

Photograph of a Desert Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus crooki. It is bending down to inspect something on the ground in front of a tree.

Photograph of a Desert Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus crooki, taken at Davis Mountains State Park. It is bending down.

Photograph of a Desert Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus crooki, taken at Davis Mountains State Park. It is bending down next to a tree.

West Texas vista

Photograph of a large, grassy field at Sproul Ranch near Fort Davis, Texas, taken from a curving dirt road. In the center of the image, a NASA satellite dish is pointed at the sky, tilted at an angle to the right. Mountains are visible in the background and the sky is cloudy; a portion of a vehicle sideview mirror is visible in the lower-right corner of the photograph.

Photograph of cattle on the Sproul Ranch. The cattle lays down on the ground near a tree. There is a pile of wood to the right and behind the cattle.

Photograph of a West Texas wash on the Sproul Ranch. A wash is the dry bed of an intermittent creek.

Photograph of a head of cattle standing in front of trees on the Sproul Ranch. It has a roan coat, and a yellow tag with the number "20" in it in its left ear.

Photograph of two cattle on the Sproul Ranch. The red and white cow is laying down. The lighter cow is preparing to lay down.

Photograph of a cistern at the Sproul Ranch. It is behind a barbed wire fence, and there are many plants in the surrounding area.

Photograph of a deer hidden in the brush on Sproul Ranch. There is a pile of large rocks in front of the deer.

Photograph of a tree known as the Texas Madrone, Naked Indian and Lady's Leg. Texas Arbutus, Madrono, Arbutus xalapensis

Sproul Ranch, West Texas view. My family and I were on a jeep tour of the Sproul Ranch.

Sproul Ranch, West Texas view

Sproul Ranch, West Texas view

Sproul Ranch, West Texas view

West Texas view from the Sproul Ranch