Monday, February 16, 2026

Montana Ranchers Weather Challenges to Preserve Heritage

Moving across the country in the early 1900s wasn't as easy as it is now. That's when Tristan Stark's ancestors traveled to eastern Montana from Oklahoma to settle at the ranch the family still calls home.

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... The Stark Family owns S Bar K Cattle and Hay in Baker, Montana, and are participating in DTN's View From the Range series. In the series, DTN will follow a year at the ranch to give readers an inside look at how the ranch operates and cares for its animals.

This segment of the series focuses on the history of the ranch and how the Stark family landed in Baker, Montana.

FAMILY LEGACY FOR GENERATIONS

Tristan and Shaylyn are celebrating becoming a family of five with the birth of their third child, Kimber, earlier this month. She is joined at home by her siblings Wayne and Lainey.

The couple enjoy being able to raise their family on the ranch, just as several generations before have done.

Tristan and Shaylyn are the sixth generation to raise their children on this ranch settled by his great-great-great-grandfather in 1910. In 1916, a house was purchased from the Montgomery Ward catalog. It arrived via train on nine numbered railroad cars so they knew what was on each of them and could properly construct the house. This was the home for the growing family for many years. No one is living in the house any longer, yet it still stands on the ranch. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-16 12:15 AM

So, basically Yellowstone?

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-02-16 12:22 AM

@#2

Possibly, but in my view, not.

Its a family that went to the wilderness to settle and farm.


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#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-16 12:27 AM

Its a family that went to the wilderness to settle and farm.

Fair enough. I guess the evil demons from California and New York have not arrived yet. :-)

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-02-16 12:44 AM

@#4 ... I guess the evil demons from California and New York have not arrived yet. :-) ...

Yeah, but that aside.

I do have a great respect for the family farmers in this Country.

The battles they fight against Mother Nature each and every year make them stronger.


And to see such a family farm that has been in the family for a century, well, just wow.


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-16 01:30 AM

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