51 (D-80) Wolfe's Ranch

51 (D-80) The Wolfe Ranch is located in Arches National Park, at the beginning of the hiking trail to Delicate Arch.
(Look again at the map of Arches National Park.)
http://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/upload/ARCHmap.pdf
The Ranch was settled in the late 1800's by John Wesley Wolfe and his son. John moved west from OHIO looking for a drier climate, better for the pain caused by a leg injury he received during the Civil War.

The Wolfes built a one-room cabin, a corral for cattle and a small dam across the Salt Wash River. For more than a decade they lived alone on the remote ranch. In 1906 John's daughter Flora Stanley, her husband, and their children moved to the ranch. Shocked at the primitive conditions, Flora convinced her father to build a new cabin with a wood floor - the cabin that is still standing today. The reunited family stayed for a few more years in Utah and in 1910 returned to Ohio. John Wolfe died on October 22, 1913, in Etna, Ohio, at the age of eighty-four.

Jane

My students know why OHIO has been made special in this text....
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VOCABULARY:
cattle = "bétail"
decade = ten years
remote = "isolé"