We Called It Ghost Ranch

Grand Junction, Colorado: Ghost Ranch Conference Center, 1979 (1989). Fifith printing (stated). Octavo in illus offwhite paper wraps; 148 pages; 22 cm Near fine(-) with faint edge-wear. . Paperback.

Contents: Land of cougars, canyons and cloudbursts -- Of writers, preachers, boats and goats -- An Anglo patron -- Of wings and many things -- Dudes and wranglers -- Ranch neighbors -- A bomb called Trinity -- A hobby that built a hospital -- Seekers for hidden treasure -- No room at the inn? -- Miracle in the desert -- Of community and conflict -- The hundredth sheep -- In the shadow of a mighty rock./ "Cattle and guest ranch owner and philanthropist, Arthur Newton Pack owned Ghost Ranch near the village of Abiquiu in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, 1936 to 1955. He also owned Ghost Ranch Lodge, a guest ranch in Tucson from 1941. Pack was the last private owner of Ghost Ranch in New Mexico and donated the 21,000 acre ranch to the Presbyterian Church in 1955 for use as a national retreat and education center. Georgia O'Keeffe gave him a drawing of an ox skull which became a logo for the ranch. In 1959 Pack was a founder of the Ghost Ranch Museum, an institution similar to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, near Abiquiu, New Mexico. / Dude ranches -- New Mexico. Dude ranches -- Arizona. Dude ranchers -- United States -- Biography. Dude ranchers. Dude ranches. Manners and customs.Rio Arriba County (N.M.) -- Social life and customs. Arizona. New Mexico.