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There are 640 acres in a section of land.
There are 36 sections in a township.
A.C. Huidekoper bought 5 full townships from the railroad.
He ranged about 140,000 acres of land.
A.C. Huidekoper founded the HT Ranch near Amidon North Dakota in 1882. Percheron horses were the number one business of the HT Ranch. In 1904 the ranch was split up and some of the land was sold to Campbell and Reid, a St. Louis Commission firm. In late 1905 the company sold its entire hers to St. Louis parties. Less than a year later, April 1906 the rest of the land, equipment and training stables were sold to the Pabst Brewing Company for an amount of $300,000. Eighteen months later, November 14th 1907 Fred Pabst sold the HT land to the Western Land Securities Company for $500,000.
Writing of his experiences many years later, Arthur Clarke Huidekoper complained: "Between Theodore Roosevelt who destroyed it (the badlands to homesteaders) as a range country today and Pinchot who allowed all the timber to be cut off, the country today is practically of little value--semi arid and settled by foreigners who are gradually becoming bankrupt.
Arthur Clarke Huiderkoper of the HT Ranch Induction into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, Pre-1940 Ranching,
August 2, 1998
The Round up:
Involved the Langs, the Eatons, the Huidekoper outfit, the "Three-Sevens", and "OX", every ranch big or small in the Little Missouri basin, a hundred men or more, nearly a thousand horses and upon thousands of cattle, taking in a territory of perhaps ten thousand square miles. (Theodore Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback pg. 338)
It was, as A. C. Huidekoper remembered, "a very vivid affair... like a reunion... There was a great deal of life... The ponies are fresh and some buck hard, the men shout, "Stay by him, "Go to him," and if man is thrown they shout with glee. Breakfast was at three in the morning, dinner about ten o'clock in the morning. (Mornings on Horseback pg.338)
The land holdings of the original ranch extended from Black Butte to the logging camp and from Round Top to Sand Creek. Mr. Huidekoper bought the first township for 25 cents an acre in 1882, and the balance in 1888 for 75 cents an acre. The largest number of horses owned at any time by the company was approximately 4,000 head and they ranged from the Little Missouri to the Grand River.
"Huidekoper once wrote that he owned 63,360 acres of land, leased 5,000 acres of school land, and because he owned every other section he controlled 140,000 acres of land" (Slope County Records pg.1085)
 November 18, 1940, W.O. Rabe purchased the original site of the HT ranch.
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