Karen Bogan

I was raised on the back of a horse. Cattle and Ranch work have always been a part of my life; I've broke, trained and sold many horses. For years, my husband, Wayne and I traveled from Texas to Washington State while he competed in Rodeos. One of my first real estate adventures was dividing up 60 acres into a subdivision and selling thirty of the lots. In 1984 we designed and built a four-bedroom log home-cutting pines from our property, hand peeling them, then had a mill to cut them into a kit for a log home. I sold that home and 2 acres for enough to buy us a home and 82 acres in Grapeland, Texas. I designed our home and blueprints for our second house in Grapeland; my husband and myself built it and it's where we live today. When we came to Grapeland in 1997, I was the only woman sitting in an auction barn buying and selling cattle. Those guys sure made it tough on me at ...