The Ranch Today:

EASTERN MONTANA | ARBUCKLE RANCH

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The Arbuckle Ranch is still a working cattle ranch fifteen miles north of Alzada, Montana.

My uncle, Lee Arbuckle, owns the ranch today - and leases it to a longtime neighbor. According to the memoir My Life on the Range, by John Clay, the ranch is part of one of the original cattle ranches in Montana, started by the Dickey Brothers in the early 1880s.

My great-grandfather George Arbuckle took over the ranch in the early 1900s.

 

Antelope on the ranch

 

Antelope - eastern Montana, on the Arbuckle Ranch

 

The ranch is also home to mule deer and whitetail

 

Evening view of the ranch homestead

 

Finger Buttes on the Arbuckle Ranch

 

Summertime hay field

 

The original ranch house

 

The newer ranch house

 

Trees near the ranch homestead

 

Sheep in the springtime

 

A seedster and the Arbuckle family - my uncle and aunt, Lee and Maggie Arbuckle, have developed an incredible seed harvesting machine called the Arbuckle Native Seedster. This machine harvests seeds much more efficiently than anything else on the market, and the Arbuckles are working very closely with agricultural organizations that are producing crops to support alternative forms of fuel.

 

Three Hills pasture

 

Flock of wild turkeys on the ranch

 

The old Washburn place