Alfred Stevens Gage (February 6, 1860 – June 23, 1928) was an American rancher and businessman who founded the

A. S. Gage Ranch The A. S. Gage Ranch is a cattle ranch located in Brewster and Presidio Counties in west Texas. Today's ranch is only a part of what was a once much larger operation founded in 1883 by Alfred S. Gage. It is still in the family, being owned and op ...

in the Trans-Pecos region of

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. At its greatest extent his ranch extended over 500,000

acres The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, of a square mile, 4,840 square ya ...

. Gage was a native of

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who moved to

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, where he became a successful businessman and banker. He then moved to

Marathon, Texas Marathon () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brewster County, Texas, United States. The population was 470 in 2007, after growing from 455 in 2000, but had decreased to 430 by 2010. Marathon services tourists traveling to Big Bend National ...

seeking opportunity in ranching. In 1926-1927, he had the Gage Hotel constructed by the firm of

Trost & Trost Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers, often known as Trost & Trost, was an architecture firm based in El Paso, Texas. The firm's chief designer was Henry Charles Trost, who was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1860. Trost moved from Chicago to Tucson, ...

to offer visitors to Marathon better lodging. The building also served as his residence and headquarters for his local cattle and banking interests.

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1860 births 1928 deaths Ranchers from Texas {{Texas-bio-stub