About Keighley Jacobson

Keighley is a refugee from the corporate world, with a long career of wearing spiffy clothes to work at such big businesses as IBM and Citigroup in New York City. As some old habits die hard, don’t be surprised to see her out working her cows in a skirt and pearls.

A diehard adventure seeker, Keighley has rafted the Amazon, kayaked through ice in the Straits of Magellan and mushed a dog sled through the Arctic Circle near Baffin Island. She was taught to fly by her husband Mark, a U.S. National Champion aerobatic pilot and former Alaskan bush pilot. Not everyone’s first date is taking an airplane ride performing aerobatic maneuvers! Their North Texas ranch has its own airstrip and hangar, where the “station wagon,” also a Cessna 185, gets as much use as the trucks.

Keighley may have bought her first longhorn strictly as a lawn ornament, and maybe to impress some city slicker coworkers, but she quickly realized how “magnificent” the cattle were. She has come to love their gentle, thoughtful nature and now handles them like a longtime cowgirl.