John Wesley Wolfe settled here in the late 1800s with his oldest son Fred. A nagging leg injury from the Civil War prompted John to move west from Ohio, seeking a drier climate. He chose this tract of more than 100 acres along Salt Wash for its water and grassland ... enough for a few cattle. Wolfe and his son built a one-room cabin, a corral and a small dam across Salt Wash. For more than a decade they lived alone on the remote ranch. In 1906 John's daughter Flora Stanley, her husband and their children moved to the ranch. Shocked at the primitive conditions, Flora convinced her father to build a new cabin with a wood floor -- the cabin shown here. This site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.