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America's billionaire playgrounds: Rockets, ranches and rivers

Russell Gordy owns 239,000 acres from Texas to Wyoming

Russell Gordy’s ranch in Montana
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Russell Gordy’s ranch in Montana | Source: Tweed Media

Devon Pendleton| Bloomberg
Gordy & Sons Outfitters in Houston stocks almost anything an outdoors enthusiast could want, from a $1,550 knife inlaid with 45,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk fossil to a $250,000 rifle with a stock made of fine-grained walnut.

Store founder Russell Gordy knows his customers’ desires well. They are, after all, just like him.

Gordy, 68, got very rich in the oil and gas business and plowed a chunk of his wealth into ranchland in Texas, Wyoming and Montana that’s paradise for anyone who likes to hunt and fish. Gordy has passions for both, and 239,000 private acres to indulge them.

He spent about $100

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