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==Career==
==Career==
After graduation, he joined the staff of Interstate National Bank in Kansas City but soon returned to the South Plains in 1948 to work at the Pitchfork. He was hired by manager [[Douglas Burns]] to assist with domestic hog operations. He soon mastered ranch operations and became the sixth manager of the Pitchfork when Burns retired to Lubbock but continued to advise the ranch through his role as a director of the parent company.<ref name=books/> On June 9, 1951, he wed the former Berneice Anderson in Creighton, Missouri.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/061007/obi_061007091.shtml|title=Jim Humphreys|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche Journal''|date=June 10, 2007; no longer on-line.}}<ref>
After graduation, he joined the staff of Interstate National Bank in Kansas City but soon returned to the South Plains in 1948 to work at the Pitchfork. He was hired by manager [[Douglas Burns]] to assist with domestic hog operations. He soon mastered ranch operations and became the sixth manager of the Pitchfork when Burns retired to Lubbock but continued to advise the ranch through his role as a director of the parent company.<ref name=books/> On June 9, 1951, he wed the former Berneice Anderson in Creighton, Missouri.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/061007/obi_061007091.shtml|title=Jim Humphreys|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche Journal''|date=June 10, 2007; no longer on-line}}</ref>
As ranch manager, Humphreys supervised the operation of some 165,000 acres and 113 windmills in King and adjacent Dickens counties. According to the ranch website, Pitchfork cowboys are known for the quality of their [[horse]]s, such as the "Pitchfork Gray," a gray horse with a black mane and tail. The Pitchfork brand is of course in the shape of a pitchfork. The Pitchfork is a diversified agricultural business, with an annex in Jefferson County in southeastern [[Oklahoma]]. There have been major [[petroleum]] finds in the Tannehill sands area. The Pitchfork offers guided [[hunting]] for [[deer]], game birds, [[boar]], and other game. Farming has been expanded in recent years to increase winter grazing and grain production. The ranch has some 4,500 mother cattle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepitchforkranch.com/ranch.html Pitchfork Ranch|title=Pitchfork Ranch|publisher=The Pitchfork Ranch|accessdate=November 19, 2019}}</ref>
As ranch manager, Humphreys supervised the operation of some 165,000 acres and 113 windmills in King and adjacent Dickens counties. According to the ranch website, Pitchfork cowboys are known for the quality of their [[horse]]s, such as the "Pitchfork Gray," a gray horse with a black mane and tail. The Pitchfork brand is of course in the shape of a pitchfork. The Pitchfork is a diversified agricultural business, with an annex in Jefferson County in southeastern [[Oklahoma]]. There have been major [[petroleum]] finds in the Tannehill sands area. The Pitchfork offers guided [[hunting]] for [[deer]], game birds, [[boar]], and other game. Farming has been expanded in recent years to increase winter grazing and grain production. The ranch has some 4,500 mother cattle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepitchforkranch.com/ranch.html Pitchfork Ranch|title=Pitchfork Ranch|publisher=The Pitchfork Ranch|accessdate=November 19, 2019}}</ref>