ABOUT

Ronald “Ron” Linam

Ronald holds a Business Degree from Baylor University where he was on Baylor’s debate team and rifle team, an Industrial Engineering Degree from Southern Methodist University where he was President of the National Federation of Industrial Engineers, and a Certificate of Finance from Harvard Business School.

He has served as Director of Investments for one of the nation’s largest insurance companies where he managed their investment portfolios of stocks, bonds, mortgage loans, venture capital, and real estate investments. In that capacity he also served as president of their real estate development subsidiary.

For many years he has been and continues as an independent consultant on land investments for some of the nation’s largest banks and insurance companies such as Sentry Insurance, The U.S. Trust Company of N.Y. and The Northern Trust Company of Chicago. For the Northern Trust he analyzed farms for purchase, and was highly trained in agriculture by Dr. James Shute to buy the desired high productive farms for their European clients.

He has facilitated many new business connections between U.S. companies and mainland China, traveling extensively in China and consulting for Chinese companies, Chinese Government Agencies, and the Chinese Military, starting in 1980…….when we thought China was headed to democracy.

He has worked as a consulting engineer for Sepradyne and British Nuclear Fuels on new remediation technology.

He has served on the boards of numerous corporations. He served on the Board of Trustees of Dallas Baptist University for 18 years and as the Chairman of the Board for two years, and as Chairman of their Presidential Search Committee. He served on the first Advisory Board of the Baylor Universiy Business School.

He is a frequent speaker at investment conferences such as the Institutional Investors Conference in New York, and the Financial Analysts Federation.

Over the years he has done specific (unnamed) activities for the U.S. Government in the area of national defense, most recently in Afghanistan.

For 30 years he raised and sold Quarter Horses and purebred Santa Gertrudis Cattle to many different countries, such as Russia, South Africa, several South American countries, and the Mariana Islands.

For many years he took medical teams of 60+ people to various areas of Honduras and managed and set them up in remote jungle and mountain sites to treat the people.

For the past 20 years he has met and counseled, presented the Gospel, and followed-up with each new boy coming into a large kid’s prison in north Texas (a prison for boys 12 to 19 years of age).

He continues to be very involved in starting and guiding new venture capital companies.

Here is a picture of his home on his 1,600 acre ranch on the west side Denton, Texas.  The swimming pool looks small, even though it is quite large, since this picture was taken from such a high altitude.  You can see that it is surrounded on two sides by a Spanish Style cabana.

The tennis court on the west side of the house has the blue lights on high metal poles like the ones in the old Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium.  You can also see that it has bunched curtains for blocking the winds on that prairie.

If you look close, you can see a mare and her little foul in the corner of the horse trap in the front.

There are a lot of cars there because once each Spring he would have a round-up of the cattle and his friends would come up and help brand and de-horn the young ones, and be sure that each one had its mother’s number tattooed in its ear.

What does not show is all the food under the trees with the big tray of hot Carter’s ribs.  Ron and Clint Murchison, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, had this thing going about who in all North Texas had the best barbequed pork ribs.  They both decided it was Carter’ (pronounced “Cottu’s” by the Black owner) on Oakland Ave. in east Dallas.  You didn’t want to go into that area of Dallas after dark, but it was fine in the daytime.  A prodigious quantity of those “Cottu’s” ribs assured plenty of helpers on those annual roundups.

This is one of Ron’s prize Santa Gertrudis breeding bulls (as shown elsewhere in this book).  The agricultural professors who judged the cattle at the shows wanted them to have especially big bone.  They also wanted the animals to show loose skin to better withstand the heat.

Look how athletic those Santa Gertrudis are.  You could never unload Angus are Herefords like this!

Linam stayed away from most all of the “horse people crowd”.  However, he bred a particular strain of Quarter Houses that he told almost no one about.  Old Dan Waggoner, who died in 1902 and his heirs built one of the largest and most famous ranches in the US.  As the famous “Big Boss” and El Patrón of his cattle empire he felt that he should ride only an uncut or stud horse as a symbol of his authority.  As a result he went to great lengths to breed horses that had much spirit, but that could be ridden safely without being cut……..stud horses.

He finally succeeded and his prime result was named “Yellow Jacket”.  That line of horses, The Yellow Jacket Line, was passed down through the Waggoner heirs, but eventually became almost lost.  Linam succeeded in getting access to that Line and breeding it back from both sides to get the horses that he was after.  They had great spirit, but were so “well behaved” that they took almost no training.  You could just get on them and ride them away without all the meticulous training needed for most Quarter Horses.  Linam rode those fine stud horses without ever needing to have them cut and made into geldings.

Look how well behaved this stud horse is.   The pretty lady is bareback without a bit, only a hackamore.

Here is a picture of Linam’s famous “Yellow Jacket” Stud Horse.   He once raced and won on the Quarter Horse Track at Arlington, Texas.   He was entered in only one American Quarter Horse Association show where he won the ribbon, and the announcer said to the crowd:  “I’ll bet that horse could ‘run a hole in the wind’!”    But other than for breeding, Linam used him only for roping cattle.