He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.

" The primary activity of the ranch was raising cattle for meat and hides, but hunting and farming were also pursued.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

A Scientology profile says that he was brought up on his grandfather's " large cattle ranch in Montana " where he spent his days " riding, breaking broncos, hunting coyote and taking his first steps as an explorer ".

Larsson was kidnapped from his ranch in Tierralta, not far from where he was freed, on 16 May 2007, along with his Colombian girlfriend, Diana Patricia Pena while paying workers.

At the time it was the largest ranch in the USA.

He was raised in Tonasket, Washington on a cattle ranch owned by his parents, and earned his B. A.

At the site of what was originally the Johann D. C. Thiessen mansion and ranch, now Locomotive Park, so named because of the retired locomotive Steam Engine 92 and Camas Prairie RR Caboose on display in the middle, large trees and pathways are decorated with lights from Thanksgiving to New Year's.

In November 2007, the Rockefeller family transferred ownership of the ranch to the park for the establishment of the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, which was dedicated on June 21, 2008.

It passed Congress on August 4, 1981 and was signed into law on August 13, 1981 by President Ronald Reagan at Rancho del Cielo, his California ranch.

They met on the film shoot of Rancho Deluxe, which was filmed on a ranch where Geston was working as a maid.

Unlike Oak Ridge, the ranch school at Los Alamos, along with of surrounding forest and grazing land, was soon acquired.

He told the Modesto Bee in 1986, for example, that when he was twelve and a half years old, his mother sent him to New Mexico for a year to work as a ranch hand.

The ranch owned by Newman Haynes Clanton near Charleston, Arizona was believed to be the local center for the Cowboys ' illegal activities, while Tom and Frank McLaury worked with the rustlers buying and selling stolen cattle.

Ryan stated afterwards it was the same maneuver he used on steers he had to brand on his Texas ranch.

In 2008, the portion of Route 101 that runs from the Conejo Grade to the Old Town district of Camarillo was dedicated as the Adolfo Camarillo Memorial Highway to honor the city's namesake and extends through the boundaries of the original Camarillo family ranch.

Vandergroat tells the others that Mary sold Kemp's ranch, which he left in her safekeeping, while he was serving in the army during the Civil War, and then went off with another man.

The series, which was set against the backdrop of a ranch foreman's bunk house featured Crabbe engaging his viewers in games, stories, craftmaking, hobbies, informational segments, and interviews with guest performers and personalities in between reruns of old movie serials, westerns and comedies.

* The Rifleman ( 1958 ), featured in an episode " The Sheridan Story " where he helps a wounded Confederate veteran on Lucas McCain's ranch.

Cantrell also spends time on his family's Oklahoma ranch which was once featured on an episode of MTV Cribs.

In the early 20th century, the automobile manufacturer Harry Miller, famous for his patented master carburetor featured at the Indianapolis 500, purchased the ranch as a weekend retreat from his factory and residence in Los Angeles.

The program was set on a Nevada ranch, and featured Jackie, a college student.

Most of his children books were set in the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (" Yellow Woodpecker Farm " or " Yellow Woodpecker Ranch "), a small farm in the countryside, and featured the elderly ranch owner Dona Benta (" Mrs. Benta "), her two grandchildren — a girl, Lúcia (" Lucia ") who is always referred to only by her nickname, Narizinho (" Little Nose ", because she had a turned-up nose ) and a boy, Pedrinho (" Little Pete ") — and a black servant and cook, Tia Nastácia (" Aunt Anastacia ").

The King family and the ranch are part of the myth and mystique of Texas, and they have been featured in numerous stories and novelizations.

The show's only other featured adult was Lucy, a tough, authoritarian ranch hand.

It featured him and his wife on their ranch in South Carolina.

The ranch was also featured as a supposedly " haunted house " in an episode of Proof Positive and is frequently mentioned on the Howard Stern Show, usually to announce that another porn star has started to work there.

In 1993-94, the ranch was featured prominently in the Little Texas music video " God Blessed Texas ".

On May 10, 2008, Weekend Today featured a special split edition coveing the wedding of Jenna Bush at the President's ranch outside Crawford, Texas.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.

Desiring to fill the only remaining lack, he selected the best site on the ranch for a chapel and spared no expense in erecting it.

In private life, Miss Garson is Mrs. E. E. Fogelson and on the go most of the time commuting from Dallas, where they maintain an apartment, to their California home in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air to their ranch in Pecos, New Mexico.

Don't you have to spend any time on your ranch ''??

By 1851 the Eagle Station ranch located along the Carson River served as a trading post and stopover for travelers on the California Trail's Carson Branch which ran through Eagle Valley.

Intending to work with his father on their ranch, Brubeck entered the College of the Pacific ( now the University of the Pacific ) studying veterinary science, but transferred on the urging of the head of zoology, Dr. Arnold, who told him " Brubeck, your mind's not here.

They own homes in Goodlettsville, Tennessee ; Malibu, California ; and Port St. Lucie, Florida, but primarily live on their ranch in Owasso, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa .< ref >

He spent the remaining years of his life on his ranch near Creston, California, where he died in 1986.

According to his aunt, his family did not own a ranch but did own one cow and four or five horses on a few acres of land outside the city.

He spent much time skipping classes with his brother to engage in cowboy activities on their grandfather Denver Church's ranch, including trapping, branding, and shooting.

Many of these descendants worked on Church's ranch.

Peckinpah did an extensive rewrite of the screenplay, including personal references from his own childhood growing up on Denver Church's ranch, and even naming one of the mining towns " Coarsegold.

" Leaving the convention with his idealism disillusioned by party politics, Roosevelt said he had no further aspiration but to retire to his ranch in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, which he had purchased the previous year while on a buffalo hunting expedition.

A search for Julio Cárdenas, at a ranch in San Miguelito, Sonora, Mexico ( with the troops dismounting from the cars and fighting on foot ) discovered three initially mounted Villista fighters, trying to escape.

He took up residence on the sheep ranch of Richard Hall, James ' son, in La Salle County and helped out as a shepherd, ranch hand, cook and baby-sitter.

While on the ranch, he learned bits of Spanish and German from the mix of immigrant ranch hands.