Alice and Steven True pause between two saguaro cacti on a ride at the White Stallion Ranch, a guest ranch outside Tucson, Arizona

The ranch, which sometimes uses the slogan, "Where the pavement ends and the West begins," was built in 1900 as the working CB cattle ranch. For a decade in the mid-1900s, it was a cattle, turkey, and chicken-raising operation (with 30,000 birds) and gradually converted into a guest ranch when Tucson exploded as a retiree boomtown and winter "snowbird" destination. The first idea for the dude ranch's name was "Black Stallion" until the owners realized "BS" would not work well as a brand. Upon taking ownership in 1965, the True Family expanded the facility and established one of the largest herds of riding horses in Arizona.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.