Henry Gardiner, owner and operator of the Gardiner Angus Ranch near Ashland Kansas, is the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame's Rancher Inductee for 2003. Gardiner, who operates his family's ranch with the assistance of his three sons Greg, Mark and Garth, specializes in the production and sale of superior Angus breeding stock.

The ranch, established by the Gardiner family in 1885, consists of 21,000 acres of prime breeding ground for GAR Angus, Gardiner Quarter Horses, and most of Mother Nature's free roaming creatures.

Henry, named after his Grandfather who settled in western Kansas, was one of the first ranchers to employ artificial insemination in the 1950s; due to his 1947 grand champion steer at the State Fair that won him $100 to put towards his purchase of two registered heifers. By 1964, all breeding at the ranch was done by artificial insemination with no clean-up bulls. Gardiner went on to implement ultrasound technology on all registered bulls in 1987. Today, the Gardiner Angus Ranch keeps extensive genetic data on their herds as well as selling around 1,000 head at the ranch's annual Production Sale.

Henry, his wife Nan, and the rest of their family all continue to live and cultivate the land settled by Henry's ancestors.