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This camelback truss bridge crosses the North Fork of the Shoshone River and leads to the UXU Ranch. The 162 foot span, which is a variant of the Pratt truss design, was originally built in 1924 for use near Powell, Wyoming. The bridge itself is a Parker variant of the Pratt design in which the polygonal top chord is built with exactly five slopes. The UXU ranch started out as a sawmill in 1898 and was converted to a guest ranch in 1929. For years the only access to the ranch was a footbridge across the North Fork from the Yellowstone Highway (US 20/14/16). Then in 1968 the bridge was disassembled and moved from its original location to the UXU which made the ranch finally accessible by car. Located in the Shoshone National Forest west of Cody Wyoming, the ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2024 the bridge is celebrating its 100th birthday.
Reference: Cook, Jeannie; Monteith, Joanita (July 1, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: UXU Ranch". National Park Service. npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/03000581_text
This camelback truss bridge crosses the North Fork of the Shoshone River and leads to the UXU Ranch. The 162 foot span, which is a variant of the Pratt truss design, was originally built in 1924 for use near Powell, Wyoming. The bridge itself is a Parker variant of the Pratt design in which the polygonal top chord is built with exactly five slopes. The UXU ranch started out as a sawmill in 1898 and was converted to a guest ranch in 1929. For years the only access to the ranch was a footbridge across the North Fork from the Yellowstone Highway (US 20/14/16). Then in 1968 the bridge was disassembled and moved from its original location to the UXU which made the ranch finally accessible by car. Located in the Shoshone National Forest west of Cody Wyoming, the ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Reference: Cook, Jeannie; Monteith, Joanita (July 1, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: UXU Ranch". National Park Service. npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/03000581_text
This camelback truss bridge crosses the North Fork of the Shoshone River and leads to the UXU Ranch. The 162 foot span, which is a variant of the Pratt truss design, was originally built in 1924 for use near Powell, Wyoming. The bridge itself is a Parker variant of the Pratt design in which the polygonal top chord is built with exactly five slopes. The UXU ranch started out as a sawmill in 1898 and was converted to a guest ranch in 1929. For years the only access to the ranch was a footbridge across the North Fork from the Yellowstone Highway (US 20/14/16). Then in 1968 the bridge was disassembled and moved from its original location to the UXU which made the ranch finally accessible by car. Located in the Shoshone National Forest west of Cody Wyoming, the ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Reference: Cook, Jeannie; Monteith, Joanita (July 1, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: UXU Ranch". National Park Service. npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/03000581_text
The camelback truss bridge in the center of the photo crosses the North Fork of the Shoshone River and leads to the UXU Ranch. The 162 foot span, which is a variant of the Pratt truss design, was originally built in 1924 for use near Powell, Wyoming. The bridge itself is a Parker variant of the Pratt design in which the polygonal top chord is built with exactly five slopes. The UXU ranch started out as a sawmill in 1898 and was converted to a guest ranch in 1929. For years the only access to the ranch was a footbridge across the North Fork from the Yellowstone Highway (US 20/14/16). Then in 1968 the bridge was disassembled and moved from its original location to the UXU which made the ranch finally accessible by car. Located in the Shoshone National Forest west of Cody Wyoming, the ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Behind the bridge, Clayton Mountain rises. In 1937, fifteen firefighters died fighting a forest fire on the sides of the mountain. It was the fourth most deadly forest fire in National Forest Service History. With no radios the crew had no warning of the shifting winds and were trapped. The mountain is named for one of their leaders, Ranger Alfred G. Clayton who perished trying to get his men to safety.
Reference: Cook, Jeannie; Monteith, Joanita (July 1, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: UXU Ranch". National Park Service. npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/03000581_text
Close to the village of Abiquiú in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, United States, Ghost Ranch was the home and studio of Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings.
Ghost Ranch is also known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis.
-Adapted from Wikipedia
Los Amigos was a Dude Ranch on 4th street, Albuquerque..
A dude ranch is so called because it is a place city dwellers can go on vacation and learn and enjoy all there is about the great outdoors the cowboy way. You learn to ride, ranch and do all those things a rancher does.
This dude ranch has been closed for as long as I remember and the ranch razed to the ground and all that's left now is this sign which is slowly falling apart..
Just like humans, these horses kick back on their day off. After working over the long summer at a local dude ranch, they deserve naps in the sun during the waning days of autumn.
A herd of Bison grazing in a field near the Wolff Ranch in the Grand Teton National Park, October 2015.
Cottonwoods in their autumn gold foliage lie along the South Fork of Trail Creek in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, near the site of the old post office of Hillsboro, Montana. This valley was the site of the Cedarvale Ranch founded in the early 1900s by Grosvener W. Barry. Known as "Doc", Barry was drawn to the Bighorn Canyon area by gold in 1903. After starting three different gold mining companies, he found that there was more gold in the pockets of visitors and would be adventurers than he was ever going to extract from the Bighorn Canyon placer deposits. Being a promoter at heart, Barry and his family focused on dude ranching. With some help from railway advertisements and a publicity stunt where he piloted one of his boats from Bighorn Canyon to New Orleans, LA, the dude ranch became well known. A post office was established at the ranch in 1915. The place was called Hillsboro, Montana. Barry was appointed postmaster. When Barry died in 1920, his step son, Claude St. John, replaced him as postmaster. With the exodus of homesteaders during World War II, the post office closed on March 31, 1945.
Cedarvale, also known as Hillsboro Ranch, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Horses mingle in a lush meadow before Mount Moran of the Teton Range in Grand Teton National park, Wyoming just before cowboys will herd them into a tight group and cross the highway to a nearby dude ranch.
Arrowhead Ranch is a dude ranch in the Borscht Belt near Liberty. It has not been open in many years.
A cowboy chases stragglers during a sunrise round up of horses before the Teton Range of Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In addition to the park, the valley known as "Jackson Hole" is home to private ranches including dude ranches where visitors can ride horses and get a feel for life in the old West.
Mormon Row. Grand Teton National Park. Jackson, Wyoming USA.
Textures thanks to Betty Jo; Fissure, billowy, harvest.
A Jackson Hole cowboy rounds up horses in a sunny meadow on a chilly July morning in Wyoming. This was an unplanned shoot - I was hoping just to get some horses grazing before the Teton Range and just happened to witness the round up.
A ranch hand from the Triangle X Ranch makes a final check after moving the horses from the pasture to the ranch in the early morning.
My last night in Texas I called Jeff up and asked him if he wanted to go "sunset hunting". I could tell the clouds were going to be right, so we headed out of San Antonio and drove north about 30 miles, got off the interstate and started looking for something, anything I could use in the foreground for this sunset. A Barn. Bridge. Basket full of apples. Anything that started with a B.
Finally found this "dude ranch" whose gates were still open at 8pm, so I drove inside, down a dirt road and found this lake. In a matter of mere nanoseconds, my tripod was ready and I fired off a series of 9 shots to get this.
Moments later, a pick up truck was coming at us in the distance, guns blaring a whole stampede of cattle behind them and 12 green pirates. Okay, I'm just kidding, they were red.
Regardless, we were kindly ushered off the property by 2 "cowboys" who were actually actors that worked at the dude ranch as part of their "shoot em up" show. They told us we could visit during normal hours. I said I just wanted to take a photo, and that was it. I had no quarrel with them. We left without gunfire. But I did throw a stone in the lake.
We then got the best BBQ in town and packed. The end.
Arrowhead Ranch is a dude ranch in the Borscht Belt near Liberty. It has not been open in many years.
Arrowhead Ranch is a dude ranch in the Borscht Belt near Liberty. It has not been open in many years.
I’ve started working on a first draft for my Diggory Wombat book, and realized that if I do decide to publish it, I’m not sure where it would lie. It’s written for my (kind of) adult husband, so I don’t know if it would work as a children’s book, and if so, what age group.
This is what I’ve come up with for the first three pages (subject to change). Where do you think it would fit?
“Diggory Wombat loved to dig and he loved surprises. So he would dig and be surprised at where he was. One day, he stopped and he was at a Dude Ranch.
“Oh,” thought Diggory, “I could be a cowboy! Or would that be a cow-wombat? A cowbat?” Then he decided. “Who cares. It sounds like fun!”
Diggory went into the Western store nearby, and bought cowboy clothing. He bought a hat, a shirt, a scarf, a vest, a belt, and holster. He bought jeans and chaps, and boots. He was going to buy a saddle, but couldn’t find one that would fit him.
Dear Reader: If you are wondering where Diggory got the money for his clothes and stay at the Dude Ranch, he borrowed from the Bank of Imaginary, a leading lender to characters in storybooks.”
That evening, he went to a Dude Ranch cook-out. There were hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ ribs, and veggie burgers. There was chili and cowboy beans. There were baked potatoes, cornbread, and corn on the cob. Diggory ate five ears of corn, dripping with butter. He suddenly realized what holsters were for. He slipped an extra ear of corn into it, to eat later.”
My husband informed me he wants another Diggory Wombat book for his birthday later this month. It won’t get finished but I’ve got my references made, and have outlined the story so it will hopefully be well on its way by then. I’ve got a few pages penciled in and as you see, I’ve started some pen work. I think I’ll draw them all before I start adding the watercolor. Just in case, I decide to make changes.
Diggory’s going to visit a Dude Ranch. This time around I’m doing the book in a way that I can publish if I decide to. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll still have to figure out how to compile it all without purchasing new software. Pages on my Mac certainly can’t handle it.
This will be the cover page. I’ll add the title digitally since I’m not very good with fonts.
too bad there were cars and people in the shot but that seems to be the way it works, it was a really cloudy morning.
Elk Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Headed out to Washington State to shoot Mount Rainier for a couple of days and then on to the Palouse, a key item on my bucket list. Will be offline for a couple of days.
In the meantime, here is an image from my recent trip to the Tetons where we were surprised to see some snow. This shot is from an abandoned dude ranch named Elk Ranch.