Texas Ranch House — Season 1, Episode 1: A Home on the Range
Reality • 60 min • 1 season, 8 episodes
Episode synopsis
The first episode opens with the arrival of the vaqueros, or cowboys, at the 1867 bunkhouse where they will be living for the next three months. After meeting the Cookes, the vaqueros get right to work learning about the taxing manual labor required on the ranch such as digging post holes and hammering fencing. Their foreman, Stan, nicknamed “The Colonel” , introduces them to the difficult tasks that lay ahead.
About Texas Ranch House
Texas Ranch House is an PBS American reality television series that premiered in May 2006. Produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, Wall to Wall Media Limited, and PBS, the show placed fifteen modern day people in the context of 1867 Texas. Show participants attempted to run a ranch for two and a-half months using 19th century tools and techniques. The historian Alwyn Barr, professor emeritus at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, was the consultant on the program.