The Bezos Ranch – Deep in the Heart of Texas Uranium Country

Follow up to,  Jeff Bezos and Gise Family with King and Hall Family Branches

In the 34 year span between the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, and the near destruction of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1979, where Three Mile Island is near, atomic energy held out the potential to satisfy the world’s energy needs. As revolutionary as the Internet industry seemed in the mid-1990’s, the Nuclear industry seemed as revolutionary in the late-1940’s. Whereas the Internet industry has made information essentially free, the Nuclear industry was supposed to make energy essentially free.

Like the expectations of a Fiber Optic Cable connected planet in the 1990’s, the expectations of a Nuclear Powered world in the 1950’s prompted huge investments and speculation in any nuclear related asset market.

In our previous post about Jeff Bezos, his grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise, and their King Family connections, we briefly described how the King Family initially acquired their wealth by raising cattle, and then “hit a gusher” in the 1930’s when oil was discovered on their Rhode Island sized, Texas cow pastures.

If the promise of a new post-World War II nuclear age threatened the Gise Family’s Standard Oil royalty checks, no worries, another jackpot was in the making given where the Gise Family Ranch was located.

The Lazy Gise Ranch – Lazy “G” for short

Jeff Bezos owns two large ranches in Texas. There is “Corn Ranch,” that sits on 400,000 acres in Van Horn, Texas, according to Land Report. Purchased in 2004, it serves as the base of operations for Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Bezos in 2000.” Houston Chronicle – January 14, 2019.

Two Bezos Ranches, Texas

The original Bezos ranch (25,000 acres) is near Cotulla, Texas. It is the ranch that Bezo’s biographies mention when describing his simple country-boy bonafides he picked up while helping his grandfather L.P. round up strays, brand steers, or repair miles of barbed wire with only a mule as company. As Bezos explains;

“One of the things that’s so interesting about that lifestyle and about my grandfather is he did everything himself. You know, he didn’t call a vet if one of the animals was sick; he figured out what to do himself,”

Although most sources say this ranch is in Cotulla, and don’t mention that the ranch is called the “Lazy G” (there are several Lazy G ranches in Texas, this is the closest to Cotulla), simple duckduckgo.com searches put the Lazy G ranch in San Diego, Texas, about 75 miles southeast of Texas. In any event, Bezos’ “Lazy G Ranch” (“G” is for Gise) is somewhere between San Diego, Texas and Cotulla, Texas.

Approximate Location of Bezos Ranch near Cotulla Texas

“There’s uranium in them there hills!”

That somewhere between Cotulla and San Diego, Texas, where the Lazy “G” Ranch sits, is also where the Texas Uranium fields are found.  

The uranium district of south Texas was discovered by accident in 1954 by an airborne gamma radiation survey looking for petroleum deposits. The coastal plain had previously been regarded as highly unfavorable for uranium deposits. The uranium occurs in roll-front type deposits in sandstones of Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene age. The deposits are distributed along about 200 miles (320 km) of coastal plain, from Panna Maria in the north, south into Mexico. Uranium production began in 1958, from open-pit and in situ leach mines. Wikipedia: Uranium Mining in the United States

South Texas Uranium Fields Location of Lazy G Ranch is approximate

How fortuitous for the Gise Family. The year was 1954, everything will be run on clean nuclear power in only a few years and those oil leases signed in the 1930’s are going to be worthless, then Uranium is discovered, right in the back yard of L.P. Gise himself, who worked for the brand new Atomic Energy Commission since 1949. 

Most of the other ranchers and lease holders probably did not comprehend the fortune they were sitting on, but we’re pretty sure Lawrence Preston Gise did.  As Gang of Four sang, “I found that essence rare, it’s what I looked for.”

“The worst thing in 1954 was the bikini”  

Gang of Four “I found that essence rare”

Aim for the body rare, you’ll see it on TV

The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini

See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini

She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the H-Bomb

(For the H-Bomb)

I found that essence rare, it’s what I looked for

I knew I’d get what I asked for

– Gang of Four

The “discovery” of uranium on the King/Gise/Bezos ranch near Cotulla in 1954 looks like that actual acres of actual bullshit that covered the land. It is probably more accurate to say that the “announcement” of the discovery of uranium near Cotulla was made in 1954. 

We are not geologists or chemists, but it is hard to believe the teams of Petroleum Geologists that had spent the previous 50 years looking under every rock in Texas for black gold, did not know there was uranium in the southern one-fifth of the state.

At least one “Petroleum Geologist” was already looking for Uranium in 1939, if this account is to be believed.

“In 1939, while on a cross continental trek, George Von Mohrenschildt and Rodrick MacArthur were taken into custody by Mexican authorities, suspected of being spies because of their interest in uranium resources and evicted from the country after protests from the American embassy.”- Source: JFK Counter Coup 2

George Von Mohrenschildt (also deMohrenshchildt) would later become more well known as Lee Harvey Oswald‘s handler. We argue in this post that George was mostly a Uranium prospector despite his assertions he was a Petroleum Geologist. 

The point is that the Gise Family, with L.P. Gise in particular, was positioned to be the primary beneficiaries of one of the greatest asset bubbles (orange arrow – Atomic Energy bubble / yellow arrow – Internet bubble) of the past 200 years.

Source: Allianz Global Investors

See our post Uranium Connections to the JFK Assassination Deserve More Attention.

For now, we are just calling attention to the luck of the Jeff Bezos Family. To review, before the Bezos/King Family made a fortune in the Internet Bubble, they made a fortune in the Uranium Bubble, and before that the Oil Boom, and before that as the largest land owners in Texas.


If it seems a little “too” coincidental, we think so too.

Go here for our initial post about the Jeff Bezos, Gise, King Hall family.

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