FDR's Grandson's Rolling R Texas Ranch
FDR's grandson learned to ranch on his family's original Rolling R property in Colorado, and set out to build his own version out of a single 150-acre parcel in North Texas's Cooke County. He spent nearly thirty years buying up adjoining land until it reached 1,303 contiguous acres along more than 2.5 miles of Clear Creek. The ranch sits about 75 minutes from Dallas-Fort Worth, along the historic Chisholm Trail and the route once used by outlaw Sam Bass, with more than 100 feet of elevation change across limestone ridges and a waterfall cascading over the rock below. The main house runs 3,716 square feet with four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, a stone fireplace, and a pool and hot tub set into a landscaped courtyard. A separate barndominium houses four more bedrooms above a horse barn and workshop. Seven miles of trails wind through hardwood forest and native grassland stocked with whitetail deer and Rio Grande turkey, and the ranch still runs 110 head of cattle across fifteen fenced pastures.
