But their tiny populations are spread over ranches for miles around - many of them rented for Hollywood's Westerns (John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart all shot films here. Even Oklahoma was filmed largely in Patagonia and south-east of Sonoita in nearby San Rafael valley).
Ordinarily, ranch managers (typically non-Africans or Africans of European descent) claimed to have exclusive control over ranch operations, including decisions over where and when to graze which animals daily and seasonally.
After they begin training, Armando conceives a fantasy of wooing Grace and taking over the ranch.
Eventually they took over the ranch, moving there full time in 2009.
He said I should go home and take over the ranch".
When his youngest child, Aladdin, came back from Vietnam, where he flew defoliating planes, he married Wauneta Hipsag and took over the ranch.
A psychology graduate who took over a ranch after her husband died in 1987, Abreu has become the staunchest defender of agribusiness in Brazil.
The area was settled in 1875 and was largely given over to ranching and timbering; the town served as a commercial centre.
That proximity and the bucolic feel of the reservoir's wooded shoreline and surrounding countryside, much of which has been given over to ranching, have helped turn the area into a prime weekend-home location for some Medellín residents.
The grills are decorated with reproductions of Western paintings and photographs that hang in his ranch house, and the cuisine is derived from recipes handed over by his ranch cook.
Nine months after the Clarks returned to California in 1958, their lives changed abruptly: his father died unexpectedly and Willard Clark, as the only son, took over the dairy ranch.
