Alice Walton

Alice Walton is a ranch girl, and likes to spend the most of her time at her Texas ranch. Given the size of her ranch, which is 3200 acres, she does needs a sturdy vehicle, which not only is apt for farm conditions but is also fashionably hip. 2006 Ford F-150 King has exteriors of a modern truck but the interiors are as plush as a sedan, making you rarely feel like you are sitting inside a pickup truck. However being essentially a farm vehicle it has enough power packed under the hood which helps the driver in good stead. 

Alice Wanton has long been a passionate collector and patron of American art. So it didn’t came as a surprise when she announced to the world about her plans to open an art museum in her native Bentonville. However, things got a little rough for Alice when she bought “Kindred Spirits” by Asher B. Durand from the New York Public Library for around $35 million to display in her museum. The art fraternity grew skeptic of Alice’s intentions and with every further purchase of an artwork made by her she was slammed as “a hovering culture vulture poised to swoop down and seize tasty masterpieces from the hands of weak.” Her museum was considered to be an unnecessary addition and a threat to the world of art.
However, she got it built within record period of time and opened the museum for the public in November 2011. The Walton family sponsers every entry and for the same has granted the museum a $20 million grant. The Wal-Mart has also pledged a $1.2 billion support to the museum in the coming time. Designed by the Boston based architect Moshe Safdie, the museum houses Walton’s personal collection as well as gifts and loans from other private collectors. The museum has amazing architecture and the bridge is actually two building that connect each other over a man-made lake.

Alice moved to this 3200 acres of forest land in the late 1990’s after her business venture Llama Company failed to take off. She has been since living her reclusive life in the insides of a humble 4,432 square foot stucco house, built in the middle of the ranch. The ranch is particularly known for its race-winning horses, which are bred for cutting, meaning they are trained for a competition in which riders in a ring compete to separate cattle singly from a herd.

Location: The ranch is located in Milsap, Texas.

Alice, as a kid used to play with horses and her life has come full circle now as she spends all her time living in this ranch of hers, raising cutting horses and performing philanthropic duties