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19 maj 2021 · Hugh “Sunny” Asa Fitzsimons III, a soft-spoken South Texas rancher whose love of the land and conservation, prehistory and history, and his own family’s unresolved tensions led to a searing 2018 family memoir, died at home May 16 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
6 lis 2018 · Hugh Asa “Sunny” Fitzsimons III is a beekeeper and bison herder, a third-generation South Texas rancher both blessed and burdened by his family’s legacy of trying to tame the rich, harsh Brush Country, a landscape that inevitably tames those who choose to call it home.
24 maj 2021 · Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III, owner of SHAPE Ranch, a historic property southwest of the Alamo City, died in his home on May 16, according to the San Antonio Report.
21 maj 2021 · May 21, 2021. Hugh Asa Fitzsimons, author and owner of the historic SHAPE Ranch in Dimmit County, died at his home on May 16 at the age of 67. Fitzsimons died after a long battle with...
19 maj 2021 · He is survived by his wife, Sarah, his sons, Asa Fitzsimons and Patrick Fitzsimons, his daughter, Evelyn Clark, and her husband, Matt Clark, and grandchildren Leo and Sarah Clark, stepmother ...
The hope, as Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III makes clear in his engrossing and important new book, A Rock Between Two Rivers: Fracturing a Texas Family Ranch, is that the inheritors will keep the ranch going and pass it on again—along with their love for ranching—to the next generation.
A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his family’s ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright he’ll leave for the generations who follow. What began for Hugh Fitzsimons as a mission to expose local ecological hazards from hydraulic fracking has turned into a lifelong ache to understand the more complicated ...