Lottery Winner Buys Ranch
So what would you do if you won over 200 million in the lottery? Travel the world, buy a yacht, invest in art? If you are a cowboy with a horse named Eleanor, you’d do the same thing you did the day before. Go for a good long ride. Last June a 23 year old rancher from South Dakota named Neal Wanless leaned forward in his saddle and whispered into Eleanor his mare’s fuzzy ears.” It’d would be nice if we could go for a longer ride than usual on a bigger ranch of our own”. Today Ms. Eleanor has more land than she can cover in weeks because Neal who won over 200 million in the Powerball lottery has used his winnings to buy over 23 square miles of ranch land. When the word got out in the real estate community that the rancher who had been peddling scrap metal to supplement his income in one of the poorest agricultural communities in the nation was in the market for a mega –ranch, realtors swarmed like flies to a cow pie. How about by Ted Turners in Montana? Why not Wyoming? Wanless who has refused repeated requests for interviews, and desires simply to be left alone used his fifteen dollar’s worth of lottery tickets to purchase 9.9 million dollars of rolling green pasture and crop land in... Western South Dakota, close to home, a perfect spot for Neal and Eleanor to work cattle to their heart’s content . I don’t advocate playing the lottery this but is one deserving winner that not only puts a smile on my face but still puts his boots on the same way we do. I’m Susan Allen
