Russell Gordy with his family on his ranch in Casper, Wyoming.
Photographer: Rebecca StumpfWealth
America’s Billionaire Playgrounds: Rockets, Ranches and Rivers
Russell Gordy owns 239,000 acres from Texas to Wyoming.
Gordy & Sons Outfitters in Houston stocks almost anything an outdoors enthusiast could want, from a $1,550 knife inlaid with 45,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk fossil to a $250,000 rifle with a stock made of fine-grained walnut.
Store founder Russell Gordy knows his customers’ desires well. They are, after all, just like him.