Background: Owner/investment banker Jim Manley grew up in New Jersey but was always obsessed with old Westerns and cowboys. It was his lifelong dream to buy a ranch and he searched the West for 20 ...

Then there’s the lavish approach he took to expanding and decorating it—it’s all sweeping grand gestures and painstaking attention to detail. Acclaimed Western designer Jet Zarkadas, who had worked on ...

Bill Foley grew up on a cattle ranch in the Texas panhandle, where his family settled in the 1840s, and enjoyed “hanging out on the ranch property with its wide open spaces, freedom and solitude.” ...