Three Hundred NinetyEighth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Alfred Stevens Gage
After graduating from high school in Windsor, Vermont, in 1878, Alfred Stevens Gage (1860-1928) came to Texas for the first time. He resided briefly in Dallas before going to work on a ranch in Shackelford County for twelve dollars a month.
He then bought a small ranch of his own on the Little Wichita River in Archer County. In 1882, when he lost his forty cattle to rustlers, he sold out and moved to the Big Bend to manage his half-brother's ranching operation in what was then Presidio County, where Edward had been accumulating railroad land for several years.
He died in San Antonio on June 23, 1928, after surgery for appendicitis. Gage's daughters, Dorothy and Roxana, inherited his holdings, which at the time of his death totaled some 500,000 acres.
Read more about this famous Texas rancher here in the Handbook of Texas Online.
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