He inspected the multitudinous low-ceilinged rooms of the ranch house.
But somehow, Simpson figured out the bank was after him and he decided to fight the attempt to have the ranch house sold on the courthouse steps!
With the money the cook had brought, he paid his debts and hired a pair of gauchos to repair the roof of the ranch house, which was falling in.
He often went to buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.
Chilli, prepared to a recipe finalised in the kitchen here a century back, seasoned with the pequins and japones that gleam fiercely in the bushes behind the ranch-house, like rubies in the dust.
At about five in the afternoon, they spotted the shell of a ranch house on the horizon.
The governor's modest ranch house sits at the end of a dusty private road and is surrounded by several hundred hectares of land he used to farm.
President George W. Bush has been working the ranch, White House and phones to sell foreign leaders on his Iraqi policy.
Today, the three family members live in a small ranch house in the resort-retirement community of Cape Coral, Fla.
Empty-handed, we drove up to the ranch manager's house to reconvene with the others for our lesson in field dressing.
His father was a door-to-door salesman of household items like dishes and blankets and, eventually, saved enough to buy a ranch house in the working-class community of Warwick, Rhode Island.
Extensive art work including character designs, costume designs, and set designs were all developed by a top team of concept artists and designers who worked for more than a year on the third floor design studio at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch's main house on the project.
Today, an old ranch house in Arthur holds the stock of a typical small grocery in an unconventional setting.
Before dawn on Tuesday, officers responding to an emergency call at a house in the community of Ladera Ranch, about 30 miles (48km) south of Los Angeles, found a female victim dead from multiple gunshot wounds, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino told the BBC.
His mental images of the ranch had blurred and faded, leaving only a house with a hole in the middle, an enormous, threatening tree, and a barn flickering with shadows that might have been rats.
He is currently under house arrest at his ranch compound outside the capital.
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Those who stand with Bush get invites to his Crawford, Texas ranch, and the red carpet treatment at the White House.
Perhaps a principal family plans to shoot game at their ranch in Kenya for a month with the in-house gun collection.
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George Bush, sure-footed in his first weeks in the White House, has banned jeans from the Oval Office and wears a suit almost everywhere except on the ranch.
With little left to prove, Chouinard could sell the company and happily spend his time catching breakers (here or at his other home up the coast, in Hollister Ranch), fly fishing (near his house in Jackson, Wyoming, using flies he ties himself), and mentoring and donating to his favored environmental causes.
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The ranch, which includes a 12, 147-square-foot, Tudor-style main house, is owned by Tommy Ford, who runs a construction firm that builds facades of casinos and hotels, including Caesars Palace and the Venetian.
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His ranch house, neat as always, was exactly as I remembered it down to the Soultex records pinned into his studio wall in an arrangement that reminded me of a cross.
To researchers, the pursuit of happiness--the decision to buy a Jeep Cherokee over a Chevy station wagon, a Cape Cod house versus a ranch, to chain ourselves to our desks and grind ourselves into wafers--emanates from the most important question human beings can ask themselves: What really makes us happy?
Our ranch house was located just north of Divide, Montana, a tiny town you could miss from the highway if you happened to adjust your radio at the wrong moment.
The walls and ceiling beams in Mr. Katzenberg's 10, 000-square-foot California ranch-style house in Beverly Hills are all covered with it.
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