California family finds true home on the range in Bartonville - Cross Timbers Gazette

California family finds true home on the range in Bartonville - Cross Timbers Gazette

By Lynn Seeden, Contributing Writer Joe Speake traded flip flops for cowboy boots, and a harried city life for longhorns. He and his wife Jacqueline chose to leave California several years ago to find a place where they could someday raise children—a place with good values, good neighbors and a good community. They hadn’t figured on raising longhorns while they were at it. But it was the lure of land that called the Speakes as newlyweds to ventu…