Our story
A working ranch in the Blue Mountains since 1873.
The ranch began with one flock of sheep on Butter Creek. The Oregon Trail crosses its ground, Battle Mountain is named for a fight on it, and the sheep are still here.
The ranch, since 1873
One flock of sheep on Butter Creek, and 150 years since.
The country
Rimrock, bunchgrass, Blue Mountain timber and the river.
Butter Creek
The creek the emigrants crossed and the ranch began on.
The Oregon Trail
Wagon ruts still cross the ranch on the hill above Meacham.
Battle Mountain
The last major fight of the Bannock War, 8 July 1878.
Sheep and wool
Fine-wool Rambouillet, and ninety years with one Oregon mill.
The names
Where Butter Creek, Meacham, Gurdane, Nolin and the rest got their names.
Visiting today
A working ranch that hosts guests.
Sheep and cattle still run on the ranch, and the work of the ranch sets the calendar: lambing in late winter, cattle to summer range in spring, shearing, haying, and the cattle home again in the fall.
Around that work we host hunters, families and small groups: a hunt with Hunt Oregon, a stay, an event, or a few days in open country. Numbers stay small so the land, the stock and the wildlife stay as they are.
