Flat Creek Ranch
Carrington had worked at the Bar B C Dude Ranch from 1912 on, and established Flat Creek as a dude ranch. Cissy Patterson appeared in Jackson Hole 1916 as "Countess Gizycka", on the rebound from a failed marriage to a Polish count. Carrington and Patterson toured Europe together in 1922. Through Patterson's influence with US Senator Francis E. Warren, Carrington obtained a homestead patent on the ranch and then sold it to Patterson for $5000. In 1923 she built seven cabins, a barn and a lodge on the property.
Currently, the property is owned by journalists Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel. Albright, the former husband of the late Madeleine Albright, is the son of Cissy Patterson's niece Josephine Patterson Albright (daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson), who inherited the property at Patterson's death in 1948.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Flat Creek Ranch". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 17, 2008. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ^ "History". Flat Creek Ranch Resort. Flat Creek Ranch Resort. October 18, 2008.
- ^ Blackman, Ann: Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright, p. 187. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
External links
- Official website
- Flat Creek Ranch Archived June 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office