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Dover Oklahoma Breeder   of   Registered   Black   Hereford   Cattle.   The AZ   brand   is   a   registered   brand   that   has   been   in   the STITT   family   since   before   the   Land   Run   of   1889. STITT    FARMS    have    been    running    cattle    on    the historic   Red   Fork   Ranch   west   of   Dover   Oklahoma, right   in   the   heart   of   the   Chisholm   Trail   that   crosses the Cimarron River.

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In   1997,   the   first   registered   Black   Hereford   bull   was   born   on   Gage's   Blue   Jacket Farm   near   Eudora,   Kansas.   The   bull   was   named   BJH   Balder   7504   and   carried   the Black   Hereford   registry   number   HB000001.   Before   forming   the   Black   Hereford organization,   John   Gage   was   a   polled   Hereford   breeder.   It   was   his   belief   that balanced   EPDs   were   important   and   he   carried   this   belief   to   the   Black   Hereford breed   he   created   by   insisting   that   only   the   highest   rated   Hereford   bulls   could   be used   .   Black   Hereford   EPDs   were   first   calculated   in   2005;   with   the   2013   analysis   of performance   data,   this   first   Black   Hereford   bull,   BJH   Balder   7504,   had   the   following EPDs:      BW: 1.6 WW: 55 YW: 86 Milk: 10 M+G: 37

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Founded   in   1872   at   present   Dover   in   Kingfisher   County,   the   Red   Fork   Ranch   was   a strategically   located   trading   post   situated   above   the   high   water   mark   where   the Chisholm   Trail   intersected   the   Cimarron   River.   At   the   time   of   its   creation   trading posts   were   referred   to   as   "trader's   ranches,"   and   the   river   was   known   as   "the   Red Fork   of   the Arkansas   River,"   thus   originating   the   name   Red   Fork   Trader's   Ranch. A semiweekly   stage   service   from Arkansas   City,   Kansas,   to   Fort   Sill   created   the   need for   keeping   the   ranch   open   year   round.      Red   Fork   Ranch   was   abandoned   briefly   in 1874   during   the   Red   River   War.   When   the   ranch   was   reoccupied,   new   stockade- style    buildings    were    erected,    and    the    original    corral    was    divided    into    several corrals. The   following   year   Lee   and   Reynolds   sold   their   trading   license   to   Daniel   W. "Dan"   Jones,   the   first   of   a   succession   of   proprietors   who   made   a   living   there   while combating   loneliness   through   the   fall   and   winter   months.   An   1885   map   indicates that    it    encompassed    slightly    more    than    one    hundred    thousand    acres    in    the northeastern   corner   of   present   Kingfisher   County.   The   location   of   the   ranch   trading post became the town site of Dover.