Named for the four sons.

How this ranch got here

Pat grew up around cattle. His father was a veterinarian in Nebraska; Pat became the second-generation rancher. He and Pam had four boys. With four boys to raise, they decided to raise them on a ranch.

It started small — helping a neighbor, running a few head. It grew into a US Forest Service lease and private ground in the White Mountains. The herd began commercial Black Angus and converted, over years, to Registered Black Angus. The cow/calf side came first. AAA bull breeding came later.

The boys are grown now. They still come home to help when the work is heavy. That's what "Four of a Kind" means.

The ranch runs on the same values the boys were raised on — do the work, tell the truth, take care of the animals. Nothing more complicated than that.