Figure 182. The original caption for this photograph from Fermor Church’s photograph album reads, “1920s—White cabin west of the LARS upper fields.” Church was a schoolmaster at the Los Alamos Ranch School and the husband of Peggy Pond Church. White’s descendants dispute the identification of the cabin as White’s. Whatever the case, during the Ranch School years, the upper fields pictured here—once the White homestead—were used for raising hay. (Los Alamos Historical Society)
the Baca came from communities as far away as Española, Pena Blanca, and Cuba. During their affiliations with Mr. Bond, credit would be extended for a period of an entire year. One additional enterprise of the Bond headquarters was the leasing of sheep. An example of this would be where a rancher would lease 100 ewes and the following spring return 50 lambs as payment, and in addition, to sell the wool from his total flock to
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Homesteading on the Pajarito Plateau
Mr. Bond. He also was aware that in many cases, it was necessary for them to sell additional sheep or cattle as payment for credit extended to them at the Bond store in Española.378 The Los Alamos Ranch School owned the William C. White homestead when the army appropriated the land in 1943.