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In 1967, Marshall Sprague wrote that Griff Evans was running a dude ranch near Estes Park, Colorado by 1873, "thirty years before dude ranches were officially invented". When Isabella Bird visited Evans that year, he already had nine men and women as guests. [ 4 ]
The McGraw Ranch, also known as the Indian Head Ranch, the =Y Ranch (Double Bar-Y) and the =X Ranch (Double Bar-X), was established in the Cow Creek valley near Estes Park, Colorado by Peter J. Pauley, Jr., who built a barn at his 160-acre (0.65 km 2) =Y Ranch in 1884, running 2500 head of cattle on the land. The land was sold in 1897 to Hugo S ...
The Holzwarth Historic District comprises a series of cabins built by the Holzwarth family as a guest ranch inholding within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park, at Grand Lake, Colorado. The Holzwarths made their homestead in the Kawuneeche Valley in 1917, two years after the establishment of the park, and received a patent on the ...
Location of Teller County in Colorado. ... Twin Creek Ranch: February 7, 1997 : 1465 Teller County Road 31 Florissant: 10: Victor Downtown Historic District ...
Vermejo Park Ranch, [1] Vermejo Ranch, or Vermejo, is a 550,000-acre (220,000 ha) nature reserve and guest ranch in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Ted Turner Reserves, the luxury hospitality company founded by Ted Turner , includes conservation research and ecosystem restoration along with guest operations. [ 1 ]
The origins of Trinchera Ranch date back to the early 19th century when it was part of a large Spanish land grant known as the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant. [3] The grant was issued in 1843 by the Mexican government to Narciso Beaubien, whose father was Charles Beaubien, and Stephen Luis Lee, [4] and it was intended to encourage settlement and development in the sparsely populated region of ...
This List of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Champions contains champions and awards in the sport of professional rodeo.The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) is the oldest and largest professional rodeo organization in the United States that sanctions men's events.
Studebaker and Lamb established the Percheron-Norman Horse Ranch in the 1880s on property purchased from “Lord” Lyulph Ogilvy, second son of the ninth Earl of Airlie. At one time the ranch was one of the largest horse operations in America, spanning 22,000 acres (89 km 2) with 2,600 brood mares. In 1899 the SLW Ranch partnership was formed.