RANCHO DE LA OSA; DECEMBER 17, 2022
It not necessarily being our first choice but our only choice, tonight we will stay at the historic Rancho de la Osa. In our time on the road we’ve stayed at too many overnight properties to remember but few with as much history as here.
The original ranch in the 1700`s was home to one of the largest cattle herds in the USA that roamed on acreage equal to the size of Canada's smallest province.
Serving as an “Dude” guest ranch (still working cattle today) since the 1920`s, it's hosted the most famous of famous Presidents and First Ladies, served as home and movie set for some of the most famous Western movies and their stars, our villa was appropriately named after Pancho Villa who during the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900`s stormed the property( a cannonball is still embedded in the Hacienda), the Cantina that we had beverages in before supper is the oldest continuously occupied building in ALL of Arizona (get the &锧 out), the “Marshall Plan” the WWII post war European recovery plan was penned here, …..talking about penned here, Margaret Mitchell wrote portions of “Gone with the Wind” while hanging out “Dude” style. The lore is endless. I guess with over three hundred years of roping and ranching , there’d be a few stories.
When we leave will have one of our own. We had the pleasure at the family style supper service to exchange stories with renown wildlife documentarist Chris Morgan and his partner. We could “Bearly” stop exchanging adventures.
If you might be wondering, considering the age of the property, the bed linens were not original. ( I think they were Egyptian….)
Where Pancho be at?
As discreetly as possible, after a couple of nights of frosty camping were letting it all hang out.
The historic cantina.
Better not dolly after the ringing of the dinner bell or........
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