"The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their Western Hertiage - the truimph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man." John Wayne

Briefly the history of America goes like this: there was a frontier, than there was no longer a frontier.  It all happened rather quickly.  First, there were Indians and millions of American Bison,  then explorers, then settlers, then towns, then cities.  No one was paying attention until the moment the widerness was officially tamed, at which point everybody wanted it back, then came a very specific cultural panic, rooted in the question "what will become of our boys?"  In fact, to all the foreign vistors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the American Man was a virtual tourist attraction in his own right, almost as fasinating as Niagara Falls or that ambitious new railroad system or those exotic Indians.  This was a particular man, this wilderness-bred American...he was Pecos Bill, he was Paul Bunyan. What refined the early Americans  more than anything else was their resourcesfulness,  born out of challenges of wenching  a New World from virgin wilderness.  Unhindered  by class restrictions, bureaucracy, or urban squalor, these Americans who where our very own grandparents simply got more done in a single day than anyone had imagined possible, nobody could believe how hard and resourceful the early Americans worked. 

In short, Bison Creek Ranch reflects this early pioneer resourefulness since privately owned in the eighteenth century!  The history and hard work of our American Pioneers and American Natives have been protected and displayed  so that the youth of our generation can experience a time when California was part of the "American Wild West" and the "Great California Gold Rush!" For instance, the early American log cabins and barns here on the ranch were entirely hand built piece by piece entirely from the raw resources off the ranch and offers an ag/tourism education on how the early Americans once worked hard and resourcefully lived in tranquility within the American wilderness!

The American Man in the 19th century was a virtual world tourist attraction in his own right! 

The Bison Creek Ranch has it's own private herd of wild American Bison, donkeys, mules, and horses that roam freely throughout the ranch.  During the time of our Great California Gold Rush, the American Bison roamed from the Alantic to the Pacific Ocean  and were over 200 million in population.  The ranch offers an education in the history and significance of our American bison and the Great  California Gold Rush of 1849! 

When a man plants a tree he plants himself, the clearest way into the universe is through a forest!  

  By standing up for the values, ideals, and ethics of the West, Bison Creek Ranch demonstrates this creed - this cowboy way.   

• Youth in the Great Outdoors, we supports programs and partnerships that engage youth in a natural resource experience and encourages young people and their families to visit, explore, and learn ... once in a lifetime unforgetable experience:

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