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Valles Caldera National Preserve
Old Barn
- Type: Place
Built in 1941, the Old Barn was used to store hay, straw, tack, and the "night horse." Every morning, the night horse and assigned ranch hand would be up before sunrise to bring the other horses from the field. The opening on the right was enlarged sometime prior to 1955.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Commissary
- Type: Place
The commissary supplied basics like meat, potatoes, beans, and other canned goods for ranch workers and sheep camps. Sheepherders arriving on horseback, packed burros, and mules would stock up with weeks' worth of provisions and then return to their camps in the mountains.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
The San Antonio Cabin
- Type: Place
San Antonio Cabin often housed cowboys when this land was privately-owned and operating as a ranch.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Cowboy Cabin
- Type: Place
The Bond Family built this house in 1951 for ranch employee Sam Hill, his wife Bertilla, and their two children after Sam complained about the building of the red cabin for the Hoolihans.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Otero Cabin
- Type: Place
The Otero (Cupit) Cabin is the oldest standing log structure in the park, built back in 1915. The Oteros, who owned the land from 1899 to 1918, grazed sheep on the mountains and cattle and horses in the valleys. Frederico Otero lived there until 1917, but later occupants included staff working seasonally on the ranch. Names carved over the door frame include Danny, Shawn, and Nathan Cupit and are dated 1967 and 1977.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Ranch Foreman's Cabin
- Type: Place
Known as the "Little House," this cabin housed the ranch manager. Like the Bond Cabin, cooking was primarily done outdoors until the Dunigan family remodeled in the 1980s. In both cabins, the additions can be easily recognized because they used vertical board/batten framing instead of horizontal logs. This cabin had continual ranch management use from 1918 up until the early 2000s. It was featured in the show Longmire.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Bond Cabin
- Type: Place
Built in 1918 and known as the "Big House," it served as a seasonal home for the Bond family and functioned as the official ranch headquarters. The living room fireplace and wood-burning stove heated the building, and the cooking was done mostly outdoors. An outhouse was used until the Dunigan family remodeled in the 1980s.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Port Royal State Historic Park
- Type: Place
“...the people…are moving not from choice to an unknown region not desired by them.” Elijah Hicks wrote these words to Chief John Ross while camped at Port Royal, Tennessee in October 1838. Port Royal was the last place over 10,000 Cherokees slept in Tennessee before crossing into Kentucky. They were travelling along the Great Western Road, part of the Northern Route, which ran from Nashville, Tennessee to Missouri. Visitors can walk about a 1/4 mile of that historic roadbed.
Capitol Reef National Park
Lesley Morrell Line Cabin
- Type: Place
The Lesley Morrell Line Cabin provides a glimpse into the ranching past of Capitol Reef National Park. Access requires a high clearance vehicle. Check road conditions and weather before attempting.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Jose Sarria
- Type: Person
Military history, LGB culture, immigrant stories, and much more make up GGNRA's roots. For José Sarria, a LGB activist in San Francisco, all the above apply. Born in the Bay Area to a single mother from Colombia, Sarria became the first openly gay, public figure. He ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1961.
- Type: Person
In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Jessie Fenton Fitzgerald
- Type: Person
In the mid-1900s, at northern New Mexico’s Baca Ranch (which is now part of Valles Caldera National Preserve), owner Franklin Bond sought a ranch foreman to oversee and manage daily operations. According to his daughter, Mary Ann, Mr. Bond hired Richard Fitzgerald as a workaround for what would have been a deviation from gender norms at the time—hiring a woman. The person Mr. Bond really wanted for the job? Richard’s wife, Jessie Fenton Fitzgerald.
City Of Rocks National Reserve
The Bunkhouse at Castle Rocks Ranch
- Type: Place
The Bunkhouse offers a rustic and primitive-style lodging in a communal setting. Guests are housed in an open, two-room building with scenic Castle Rocks as the backdrop to the experience. This facility is perfect for family reunions and scout groups.
Yellowstone National Park
Lamar Buffalo Ranch: Birthplace of Wildlife Conservation
- Type: Place
The Lamar Buffalo Ranch occupies a significant place in the history of American wildlife conservation and management. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
John Muir National Historic Site
Stop 5: Ranch Labor
- Type: Place
This is stop 5, which is next to a cypress tree and the entrance to the kitchen.
Grand Teton National Park
Series: Water Resources Monitoring in the Snake River at Flagg Ranch, Wyoming, 2021
- Type: Article
The Greater Yellowstone Network monitors water quality and analyzes river discharge in the Snake River at Flagg Ranch, WY, from spring through fall each year. The headwaters of the Snake River rise over Yellowstone National Park, meander in and out of Bridger-Teton National Forest, and then return to National Park Service land on the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Water quality is high at this site. Our monitoring results are presented here and will be updated each year.
Kobuk Valley National Park
Ruth Sandvik
- Type: Person
Ruth Sandvik was born in Kotzebue, Alaska and throughout her life, lived in many places across Alaska and the United States. She always considered Kiana, Alaska on the Kobuk River her home. In Kiana, she took over operation of Blankenship Trading Post in the late 1950s after her father became ill. She ran the Trading Post with her cousin Robinson Blankenship.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Pierce Ranch Picnic Area
- Type: Place
Four picnic tables are located adjacent to the milking barn at the historic Pierce Ranch within Point Reyes National Seashore. The Pierce Ranch is approximately 35 minutes by car from the Bear Valley Visitor Center.
City Of Rocks National Reserve
Castle Rocks Ranch Rest Area
- Type: Place
- Type: Place
Park at the McCurdy Trailhead to hike a steep and overgrown old ranch/fire road that ascends 2 miles through chaparral and some woodlands to the Bolinas Ridge Trail. Pets, bicycles, and horses are permitted on the McCurdy Trail. The trailhead is located along Highway 1 (aka Shoreline Highway) 8.3 miles (13.3 km) south of Olema and approximately 20 minutes by car from the Bear Valley Visitor Center.