The Four Sixes Ranch | Samuel Burk Burnett | Tom Burnett | Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy | Anne W. Marion
The Big House | Oil and the Four Sixes | Horses of the Four Sixes | The Four Sixes Cattle
Four Sixes Supply House | Burk Burnett's Private Rail Car and The Burnett Buggy | End of the Open Range
Managers | Quanah Parker and Burk Burnett | Quanah Parker | M.B. Loyd

Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy

“Miss Anne” was the only daughter of Tom Burnett and Olive Lake. Born on Oct. 15, 1900, in Fort Worth, she was known for her knowledge of cattle, horses and fine art and the $200 million foundation she established to support projects from horse ranching to museums.

Anne Valliant Burnett was schooled in the East and raised in a society atmosphere but valued the ranch that was part of her heritage. She dividedtime between Fort Worth and the Triangle Ranch that was established near Iowa Park, Texas, by her father.

Known as a strong-willed woman, Miss Anne was called gregarious by many who knew her, and friends say her daughter was not pampered by the mother. Ollie Lake provided her granddaughter with the emotional support she needed and established in the young girl a love for ranching and its traditions. “She’s the one who told me the old stories,” Anne Marion said. “She had the background of the Depression, and she kept telling me that I was lucky to have all that I do and not to waste it.”

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Ollie maintained a grand house in Fort Worth, and Miss Anne had a home near Shady Oaks Country Club. She was interested in the Quarter Horse breeding operation at the ranch and was noted for her champions, Grey Badger II and Hollywood Gold, from which many top racers and cutting horses were descended.

Miss Anne was inducted posthumously into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and was the first woman to be named as honorary vice president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and the AQHA. In 1969, she married Charles Tandy, founder of the Tandy Corp., and established the Burnett Foundation in 1978.

Prior to his death in 1922, her grandfather, Samuel Burk Burnett, willed the bulk of his estate to Miss Anne in a trusteeship for her yet unborn child. At the time of Miss Anne’s death on Jan. 1, 1980, the daughter, Anne W. Marion, inherited the ranch from Burk Burnett through directives stated in Burnett’s will. She sold the Triangle Ranch and donated the Burnett home in Iowa Park to the city for use as a library.

J.J. Gibson, Miss Anne and
Charles Tandy