Showdown at Waggoner Ranch

About Showdown at Waggoner Ranch

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Gary Cartwright’s “Showdown at Waggoner Ranch” is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

“Showdown at Waggoner Ranch” is the saga of Texas’s second largest ranch and its shambles of an inheritance left by W.T. Waggoner to his descendants. It is a history of a sliver of Texas’s elite, how they made their money and how they, often scandalously, spent their time. Simultaneously, it is a nod to the cowboy lifestyle that stands at risk should the feud of the Waggoner inheritance actually put the fate of the ranch at risk.

With a rollicking cast of characters — Native American chiefs, Teddy Rooosevelt, an eight-time divorcee, the best and richest of East Coast society — Gary Cartwright offers a rich exploration into the creation of an empire and its imminent downfall.