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 hundred-year-old core ranch was originally owned by California-based Elsinore Land & Cattle Company, but in 1992 was acquired by Gerald Lyda of San Antonio, Texas who renamed the property La Escalera Ranch ( Spanish for " The Ladder ").

It was originally a large ranch owned by Indiana-born cattleman William Ulm.

When they arrived at the new ranch, which had been in the family ( it was originally owned by an uncle, Ben McCoy, who had died ), they gained a Mexican ranch hand named Pepino Garcia, played by the Puerto Rican-born Tony Martinez, who worked with them and eventually became a part of the family.

The lands that today form the city of Caruaru were originally a cattle ranch owned by the family Nunes dos Bezerros.

A large portion of the 500-acre ranch was transformed into terraced Chinese farmland for filming the MGM classic The Good Earth ( 1937 ), originally a popular novel by Pearl S. Buck.

Eventually, visitors come from both coasts to the ranch and Danny falls in love with the local postmistress, Molly Gray ( originally played by Ginger Rogers ).

The campus, nestled in the foothills in the northeast corner of the Ojai Valley, was originally the Casa de Piedra ranch.

It was originally the Larraín family ranch ; the corruption of the Larraín surname gives the area its unusual name.

Founded in 1945 on what used to be a pear orchard and hop ranch, the arboretum was originally named the Charles M. Goethe Arboretum in honor of Charles Goethe ( 1875 – 1966, pronounced " geh-teh "), a land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, eugenicist and one of the university's founding fathers, " the name was changed without fanfare to University Arboretum in 2005 " because of renewed attention to Goethe's virulently racist views, praise of Nazi Germany, and advocacy for eugenics.

The Arboretum was originally forest and a working ranch, and the home of Frances McAllister in the late 1960s.

It is designed for automobile, not pedestrian, traffic and originally consisted primarily of brick-veneer " ranch " style detached houses on large lots ( in part due to the presence of subsurface septic sewage disposal systems ; sewers were not added until well after the original development ).

Lake Avenue was originally named Lake Vineyard Avenue after the ranch of the same name ( on which the lake mentioned above was located ) on which the street was partially located.

The Air Force originally offered her a price for her ranch, land, and facilities that was very close to the cost of undeveloped desert land.

This is close to the original McLaury ranch site about west of Fairbank ( before the McLaurys moved to the Sulphur Springs Valley in late 1880 ) and is believed to have originally belonged to Frank Stilwell.

Estancia was originally a ranch for a wealthy Spaniard named Rodrigo who intermarried with a local woman.

Much of today's Mount Sutro was part of a large tract of ranch land, a Mexican Land Grant-given originally to Jose de Jesus Noe in 1846-officially called Rancho San Miguel.

She was originally named " Rowdy " by ranch hands.

Inspired by Brazilian gauchos at the ranch where Jagger and Richards were staying in Matão, São Paulo, the song was originally released as an acoustic country song.

Roosevelt built a second ranch, which he named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles ( 56 km ) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota.

A young man named Don Harvey leaves his dude ranch high school on Earth to go to his scientist parents on Mars.

The posse trailed the robbers to a nearby ranch where they found a drifter named Luther King.

The silent tells the story of a sheltered woman named Letty ( Lillian Gish ) who lives in the East in Virginia and moves to West Texas to live at her cousin Beverly's ranch at Sweet Water.

The ranch was named after the brand, which looked like a pair of scissors.

The ranch was named after the brand, which looked like a pair of scissors.

Vail was named after pioneer rancher Edward Vail, who established a ranch in the area in the late 19th century.

The area generally became known as Rimrock in 1926 when Virginia Finnie, the daughter of a prominent local rancher, started a dude ranch which she appropriately named Rimrock Guest Ranch.

It was so named for the prominent limestone rimrocks forming the edges of the mesas visible from the hill top ranch.

The dug out a pond below the original ranch house and named it Lake Montezuma after the areas most significant local landmark-Montezuma Well National Monument.

The Concow region is 20 miles north of the city of Oroville ( an Anglo-Hispanic compound meaning ' gold-town ') and about the same distance east of the town of Chico ( named for Rancho Arroyo Chico — meaning ' little creek ranch ' -- which was established through a land-grant from the Mexican authorities in 1844, two years before California was invaded by United States forces, an indication that there was some Mexican presence near the Concow region.

The third ranch covering parts of the Daly City-Colma area was named Rancho Canada de Guadalupe la Visitacion y Rodeo Viejo and stretched from the Visitacion Valley area in San Francisco, to the city of South San Francisco covering.

Murphy established a wheat farm and ranch named Bay View.

The first settlement in the area of Cottonwood Falls was in 1854, when an Indian trader named Seth Hayes founded a cattle ranch on the Cottonwood River close to the mouth of Diamond Spring Creek.

When the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 passed through the Gardiner area they encountered two men, named J. C. McCartney and H. R. Horr, that had laid claim to and established a ranch and bath house on the Mammoth terraces near Liberty Cap.

The Midland Valley Railroad reached the Avant ranch in 1905, where a post office named Avant was established in the following year.

He named the place Fossil after finding fossils in a clay-like rock formation on his ranch.

Unzicker, a German, purchased 54½ acres of land from the Chittum-Miller ranch for the townsite, which was named for J. M. Chittum's daughter.

The town is named for founder Edward Cunningham Lasater's ranch, La Mota de Falfurrias.

The town is named from a ranch in that area named " Rancho Viejo " ( Old Ranch ).

Bruni was named after Antonio Mateo Bruni, a local Italian immigrant who owned a ranch and a general store.

The town is named for Col. Isaac ( Ike ) T. Pryor, who in the 1880s owned a ranch that included the site of the community.

Named after their ranch in Chatsworth, California, the company was named Desilu.