![]() ![]() Giovanni Berg may never take the reins of the ranch his ancestors started in the state’s first days. ![]() The Fallini family also got its start in the Silver State in 1864, when Italian immigrant Giovanni Fallini settled in Nye County.įallini dabbled in mining for a bit, but by 1868 he was ranching near the Reveille Range outside Rachel.įive generations later, Fallini’s great-great-grandson, 6-year-old Giovanni Berg, follows his parents, grandparents, sister, aunt and cousins onto the range as the family works Twin Springs Ranch, running 1,800 head of Hereford beef cattle across two arid valleys in spartan central Nevada.Īt 663,000 acres, or more than 1,000 square miles, Twin Springs covers more than three times the acreage of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, and nearly 10 times the area of the city of Las Vegas.īut even as the family has sustained a thriving ranch under some of the toughest conditions in the country, its grip on the land has never been more tenuous. ![]() It’s not just Nevada’s 150th birthday in 2014. The Fallini family has been operating the ranch for five generations. Nate Easterday,left, Erik Jackson, 19, Kendall Thomas and Ty Berg takes a break during calf branding at the Twin Creek Ranch, located about 200 miles north of Las Vegas as seen Wednesday, June 4, 2014. ![]()
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