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South Dakota Cowboy Sells Ranch He Bought With $232.1 Million Powerball Winnings for $37 Million
After South Dakota cowboy Neal Wanless gained a $232.1 million Powerball jackpot in 2009, he spent a few of the winnings on a roughly 50,000-acre ranch north of Fast Metropolis. Now he has bought that ranch for $37 million, greater than double what he paid, in response to itemizing agent Robb Nelson of Corridor and Corridor.
The vendor was Powerball jackpot winner Neal Wanless.
Jimena Peck for The Wall Avenue Journal
Mr. Nelson mentioned to his information, it’s the costliest ranch ever bought within the state. Beforehand, the document was held by the $32.4 million sale of the Triple U Ranch, which was featured within the film “Dances with Wolves.” That property was bought in 2015 by an organization tied to media mogul and main American landowner Ted Turner, Mr. Nelson mentioned.
Mr. Wanless listed the ranch in September 2020, asking $41.15 million. The worth was later lowered to $37.5 million, Mr. Nelson mentioned. He mentioned the customer is the Kansas-based farm and ranching outfit J-Six South Dakota Land Holdings, which is headed by Daniel E. Gerety II, company data present.
Neither Mr. Wanless nor Mr. Gerety might instantly be reached for remark.
The ranch is known as Bismarck Ranch after a path used through the Black Hills gold rush. With rolling hills, grazing pastures and a river, it consists of roughly 42,000 deeded acres, about 4,000 acres of land leased for grazing from the Bureau of Land Administration and about 1,600 acres leased from the state. In 2020, Mr. Wanless mentioned he was leasing a lot of the land to native ranchers and to BLM, which was operating wild horses there.
The property additionally consists of 4 houses, together with two luxurious residences. One was constructed for Mr. Wanless and his spouse, Jody Gilson Wanless, and the opposite was constructed for Mr. Wanless’s mom. Mr. Wanless’s Western-style private residence spans about 6,500 sq. ft, with 5 bedrooms in addition to a sport room, poker site and screening room. He designed it personally, highlighting his in depth taxidermy assortment.
Two different houses on the property have been utilized by ranch palms and company.
Mr. Wanless beforehand instructed the Journal that the couple determined to promote as a result of they have been spending extra time at his spouse’s household’s cattle ranch in Canada, and had bought a home in Arizona, the place they plan to spend the winters.
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Mr. Wanless was 23 when he gained the Powerball prize. He instructed the Journal in 2020 that profitable the lottery had solely furthered his dream of being a rancher.
“I might have retired and accomplished actually nothing and sat on my butt and loved it,” he mentioned. “However I like it. Ranching is a tough life, however for those who love what you’re doing, it’s a straightforward life.”
Mr. Nelson mentioned the South Dakota ranch market is as robust as he’s ever seen it, buoyed by a rising curiosity in rural properties that started amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the world could be rugged. Mr. Nelson mentioned the closing was delayed by greater than per week due to blizzard and white-out situations within the area. On three separate events, the truck delivering the closing paperwork needed to flip round due to climate, he mentioned.
“If you may get by means of a South Dakota winter, you may get by means of something,” Mr. Nelson mentioned with amusing.
MINOT, N.D. (Valley News Live) – The 2024 North Dakota State Fair opens on Friday, July 19, and runs through July 27 with a lineup packed full of entertainment, rides, and family fun.
Fair organizers say the Grandstand Showpass is your ticket to some hot acts in the country music scene, such as Lainey Wilson, Sawyer Brown, Turnpike Troubadours, and Thomas Rhett, along with a demolition derby and the MHA Indian Horse Relay. You can catch all of the acts with the Showpass for $130.
Single ticket shows are also available, including Mötley Crüe with special guest White Reaper, Machine Gun Kelly with Shaboozey opening the show, and hip-hop icon Lil Wayne.
Tickets are available for $85 for Mötley Crüe, $75 for Machine Gun Kelly, and $65 for Lil Wayne, with both standing room and reserved seating options available.
A season gate pass for all nine days at the fair costs $25. You get tickets online by using the “TICKETS” link at www.ndstatefair.com
It’s the 59th year of the North Dakota State Fair tradition in Minot. Fair officials say they drawing over 300,000 visitors annually.
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MILWAUKEE (KFYR/KMOT) – The Republican National Convention wrapped up on Thursday with former President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination for president.
We got the chance Thursday night to speak with members of the North Dakota delegation. When we spoke to the delegates, they talked about the enthusiasm that former President Trump brought onto the stage just a week after that assassination attempt on his life.
“Well, it was exciting. He told his story in a very frank way. And it sounds like a very unique way he’s done. It’s not like he’s going to tell it that way again,” said Ben Koppelman, delegate.
“His message was amazing is we just got to make this country great again and get back to what we’re good at working hard drilling for oil, just making America great again,” said Mary Graner, delegate.
“Well, it was longer than I thought it was going to be for sure. But, you know, he gets portrayed as the guy that sows division, and he did just the opposite,” said Scott Louser, delegate.
“Amazing. I mean, breathtaking. It was so awesome. You just felt full of hope and gratitude and promise for our country,” said Wendi Baggaley, delegate.
We spoke with more of our delegates about a whole range of topics, and we will have more follow-ups in the coming days.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – For the last ten years, the North Dakota American Indian Summit has provided information and resources about Native American culture and history for the classroom.
It has also discussed ways to help Native American students work on healing any trauma or improving their mental health to aid their academic success.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the Native American graduation rate ten years ago was 60 percent. That year, the North Dakota American Indian Summit was organized by the Department of Public Instruction. The event’s purpose was to educate teachers on how to lead their Native American students to success in school.
”It became obvious that it was critical, for the success of our state, and for the ability for us to fully thrive to our fullest potential as a state, we needed to make sure that every single student in our school system was meeting their fullest potential,” said Kirsten Baesler, state superintendent.
This year Derrick Boles, a motivational speaker, was invited to be one of the keynote speakers at the summit. Boles’ message was about mental health and taking charge of your life. He said he sees similarities between challenges in the Black community to the ones the Native American community faces.
”There’s so much growth that can happen if we can connect people together, from multiple backgrounds,” said Boles. “So having different experiences, different perspectives and just having everybody thinking the same thing is the issue.”
Over the last 10 years, the Native American student graduation rates have increased, from 60 percent in 2014 to 77 percent in 2023.
”Right before the pandemic, our Native American students were graduating at the same rate as all of our overall graduation rate, and so they were in the upper eighties, lower nineties graduation rate,” said Baesler.
The rates decreased again during the COVID-19 lockdown, but Baesler said they have been on the rise.
This year’s summit was focused on strengthening Native American education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Copyright 2024 KFYR. All rights reserved.
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