Walking Box Ranch

6333 W. NV 164, Searchlight, Nevada. County/parish: Clark.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 30, 2009. NRIS 08001392.

2 contributing buildings. 4 contributing structures. 1 contributing object.

Also known as:

  • Woolf Ranch
  • YKL Ranch

From Wikipedia:

Walking Box Ranch

Walking Box Ranch, 7 mi (11 km) west of Searchlight, Nevada in the Mojave Desert, was founded in 1931 by the actors Rex Bell and Clara Bow as a working 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) ranch. The ranch covered 160 acres (65 ha) at the time it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 2009. The ranch includes four buildings and is owned by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Over the years, Bell and Bow entertained many notable Hollywood figures, including Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Errol Flynn, and Lionel Barrymore.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63816438