The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History shows how to tour Ree Drummond's Ranch in Oklahoma.
Frederick Drummond came to the former Osage Nation, Indian Territory, at the age of twenty-two in 1886.After spending a year in New York, he moved to Texas to try his hand at ranching.He found work with a wholesale dry-goods house after having little success.John R. Skinner was a customer of theirs and hired Drummond as a clerk.After arriving in the Osage Nation, Drummond met Addie Gentner and they married in 1890.
He was one of the best-known traders in the area.He helped organize the Hominy Trading Company in 1903.The nation's largest dealer of Pendleton blankets was once Hominy Trading Company.The National Register of Historic Places listed the Hominy home as a historic place in 1981.Roy Cecil, Frederick Gentner, and Alfred Alexander "Jack" were all college graduates.Roy and Jack started ranching in 1913 and 1896, respectively.In Oklahoma and southern Kansas, the brothers and their descendants managed more than two hundred thousand acres.
After graduating from Oklahoma A&M College in 1914, Frederick Gentner Drummond attended Harvard Business School.He ran the company after his father's death.He married Grace Ford in 1927 and they had four children.He established two cattle ranches during the Great Depression.The ranches totaled twenty-five thousand acres at the time of his death.
The operation of these ranches was taken over by his son, Frederick Ford Drummond, who earned degrees from Oklahoma State and Stanford universities.He joined the United Missouri Bank of Kansas City as an inspector and counter of cattle.The best way to do his job was to go where the cattle barons congregated.They could be found doing business on the second floor of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.The cattle market in Oklahoma and surrounding states used to be made at these hotels.He was well-equipped to operate the family ranch because of his education and banking experience.A member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association since the age of seven, he was training his son, Ford, to be a fourth generation Drummond rancher.
The Drummond Family History: A Story of Fred and Addie, Their Ancestors and Children was written by John R.Drummond.Newsfoto Publishing was published in 1981
The book "Osage County Profiles" was published in 1978 by the Osage County Historical Society.
Terry Hammons Ranching From the Front Seat of a Buick: The Life of Oklahoma's A.A.Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1982.
A Standard History of Oklahoma was written by Joseph B. Thoburn.Chicago: American Historical Society, 1916.
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