Living Legacy

From a rocking chair on the porch overlooking the rolling hills of his eastern Oklahoma ranch, Kenneth Steele sums up his career in a breath: “I was a cowboy.” In 1959, married with three young daughters, Steele needed work that was more stable than his gig in the oil field. The then-23-year-old found it on the 10,000acre Chapman Ranch in Holdenville, Oklahoma. The job in his native Hughes…