Ranches

San Antonio Cabin often housed cowboys when this land was privately-owned and operating as a ranch.

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.

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.

Originally this structure was built as a cabin, then later converted into a bunkhouse and eventually into a small office. This room was the heart of the business operations for the ranch from approximately 1935 to 1947.

In 1882, Henry and May Ruple began homesteading in Island Park and developed a cattle ranch. Now the remains of their ranch stand looking towards Split Mountain.

The 1878 Hornbek Homestead is an original, historic log home that was owned by Adeline Hornbek a single mother of four children. The home can be easily accessed by a short walk on a gravel trail from a parking lot off of County Road 1. The home is on the original location of the homestead.

Tucked deep into South McKittrick Canyon, the Hunter Line Shack stands as a wilderness remnant of the Hunter-Grisham partnership which consolidated small West Texas ranches into a large corporate entity to make it economically viable in the early Twentieth Century.

For nearly a century, people have enjoyed leisure and recreation at this site. Named for Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Strauss, this park delights nature lovers and intrigues history buffs. Oak woodlands, a seasonal creek, easy trails, a lawn area, and an amphitheater provide a wonderful location or visitors of all ages to have fun outdoors.

Endurance, power, and intelligence. These were just some of the attributes that horses brought to the day-to-day operations of the ranch. Horses were not always left outside on the range, however and this barn was constructed around 1883 to house many of the ranch’s prized Thoroughbreds horses.

A key remnant of the early Twentieth Century ranching era, the Williams ranch house lies approximately one mile northeast of the original Butterfield Overland Stage Route, which moved further south in 1859. The house is situated in a narrow valley between the Guadalupe Mountains to the east and the Patterson Hills to the west. The ranch sits at the mouth of Bone Canyon, placing it close to the perennial water source of Bone Spring.

For thirty-six years John Thomas Smith raised ten children and carved out a life on the foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains. The historic ranch that visitors see today changed over time, but still bears the indelible mark of the Smith family's time here.

The Frijole Ranch area has been a focal point of human use in the Guadalupe Mountains for many centuries. This is not surprising when one considers that Pine, Juniper, Smith, Manzanita, and Frijole springs are all within a two-mile radius of the Frijole Ranch site. The ranch is a legacy of westward settlement.

On one of John Muir's many journeys to the Sierra Nevada mountains, as the story goes, he wrapped a small giant sequoia in a moistened handkerchief and brought it down from its high mountain grove to his home. When a fungus affected the giant sequoia, the NPS took steps to clone the tree. While logging no longer poses the same threat, the cloned saplings and their high mountain relatives continue to face new challenges in the ever changing conditions of our environment.

The Grant‐Kohrs National Historic Site landscape offers a glimpse into ranch practices from the open range days of the 1800s through the modernization of ranching practices in the early to mid‐1900s. Through interpretation and demonstration, the working ranch demonstrates how practices evolved to meet the demands of an industrializing society, contend with the privatization of property, and capitalize on advances in technology and science.

The Ranch House is among the most prolific residential housing types in the United States; it was the home of the American twentieth century nuclear family. The building boom associated with the post-war World War II period produced a record number of housing starts: over 1.65 million in 1955, and approximately 1.5 million for the remainder of the decade. The Ranch House peaked in popularity in the 1950s, when it accounted for nine out of ten new houses built.

This multiple property context examines the advent of Mid-century Modernism and how it resulted in the iconic Ranch form in Arkansas during the period from 1945 to 1970. I outline the convergence of Modernism and the popular Ranch form by examining the bureaucratic, social, cultural and economic factors that contributed to significant transformations in domestic architecture.

Dwight Eisenhower was many things--a general, a president, and a statesman. He was also a farmer. Learn more about Ike's passion for agriculture, his Black Angus cattle herd, and his beloved Gettysburg farm.

Historically, Bent, St. Vrain & Company was dependent upon domestic stock for its very existence. Draft animals were used to maintain a constant exchange with major trade centers and widely scattered outposts. Cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry provided a steady supply of food for the fort employees, as well as for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. Today, visitors to the fort can see livestock who represent the vast herds and flocks once kept here.

In August of 2019, the NPS held a training program at the Boyes Prairie Orchard, part of Redwood National and State Parks. Participants learned how to maintain historic orchards, including pruning tools and techniques, and then practiced their skills as they helped to maintain and preserve the Boyes Prairie Orchard. The remaining trees in this orchard, which was started about 1884, are a bridge to the historic character of the landscape.

Use this lesson plan to evaluate several centuries of dramatic changes to an adobe ranch house and its surroundings in suburban Long Beach. Analyze the interaction between Spanish and Anglo culture in California.