What to Do with a Frontier Fort on Your Ranch

Since October 1877, Fort Chadbourne, north of Bronte, Texas, has been the same family’s ranching headquarters. Known then as the OD Ranch, Thomas Lawson Odom and his son Garland bunched 36,000 beeves and utilized the fort as their headquarters. Enter Garland Richards (Odom’s great-great-great grandson) and his wife Lana, who determined to make something of the frontier fort on their 30,000-acre ranch where they originally ran 3,000 black, bald faced Angus-Chianina. Garland’s fath