Dude Ranch... irrationally excited.

[eightangryreindeer]

I think this really is the ranch where my great aunt worked.

www.kenyonranch.com

My family went there when I was three, I have a picture of me sitting on a horse in a cowboy hat.

We don't really talk with this side of the family much, and no one on our end could remember the name of the place.

I can't find any links with any history of ownership though. Maybe I should call them.

"Sis" Reynolds (don't know her real first name) was my aunt's MIL and the owner at the time. She kept my aunt on long after she divorced her son, and they lived together for the rest of Sis' life, even after the ranch was sold and they moved to Tucson.

My aunt has a great history, was in the WACs, flew planes, killed rattlesnakes, got stuck out in the desert all night once with a broken leg (thrown by a horse). Her ex-husband wrangled horses for the Hollywood westerns and apparently a lot of celebrities used to stay there.

I want to go!!