英语词汇king ranch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	king ranch
词源	King Ranch. The biggest of the cattle ranches. Started in 1851 by Irish immigrant Richard King who by the end of the 19th century owned over 1 million acres on the Texas Gulf Coast. Today the King Ranch is over 1.25 million acres, half the area of Delaware. At one time a Texas ranch called XIT (after its brand) covered 3 million acres.
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