Jamie's Way

Rugged determination often leads to establishing a family ranch scratched into the dry soil of the remote plains of Western Oklahoma. When you drive by or fly over and see a vast estate peppered with windmills, cattle, oil derricks, and oil tanks, you can bet not one single family found those possessions easily obtained, and they are more challenging to keep.

The families struggle with drought, volatile oil, gas, cattle prices, short-tempered mortgage companies, and local banks to hang on t...