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A ranch (from Spanish: ... In South America, specifically in Argentina, [22] Uruguay, ... and three or four drives in the late 1930s, ...
Jessie M. Murphy purchased 41 acres of the Lawes property in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles in the early 1930s. This land became known as Murphy Ranch. Winona and Norman Stevens purchased it from Jessie Murphy in 1933 or 1934. Winona Bassett Stevens was a wealthy heiress, inheriting a fortune amassed by Arthur J. Bassett in the Chicago steel ...
Rural American history is the history from colonial times to the present of rural ... New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum ... 1870-1930 (The Newberry Library ...
Western ranches were likely less discriminatory, with very few ranches billing themselves as "restricted", but in the Eastern industry, that practice was common in the 1930s. [5] In the US, guest ranches are now a long-established tradition and continue to be a vacation destination. [7]
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
On the Great Plains, very few single men attempted to operate a farm or ranch. Farmers clearly understood the need for a hard-working wife, and numerous children, to handle the many chores, including child-rearing, feeding and clothing the family, managing the housework, feeding the hired hands, and, especially after the 1930s, handling the ...
Known as “America’s most beloved citizen" and "Oklahoma's Favorite Son," Rogers bought land in Santa Monica in the 1930s, where he built the ranch, stable, guest houses, corrals, a golf course ...
The managers of these ranches exercise a sort of extrajudicial power over their workers; deputized agents of the ranch enforce law on the property, sometimes shooting those workers found to be “resisting an officer.” [101] Steinbeck suggests that the sheer numbers of migrants killed indicates the casualness with which these deputies operated.