Figure 88. An undated photo of A. J. Connell taken during the Ranch School years. As director of the Los Alamos Ranch School, A. J. Connell devised a program for East Coast boys from wellto-do families that emphasized outdoor skills as well as academics. A former scoutmaster, Connell integrated the school program with the Boy Scouts and assigned each student his own horse. The Ranch School’s Troop 22 was claimed to be the first mounted scout troop in the country. (Los Alamos Historical Society)
Figure 89. The heart of the Los Alamos Ranch School was Fuller Lodge, named for Edward Fuller, the son of a financial backer of the school. The lodge was designed and built during 1927 and 1928 by noted Southwestern architect John Gaw Meem. (Los Alamos Historical Society)
Figure 90. A team of horses pulls a twine binder on the plateau. Horse-drawn twine binders were first marketed in 1880 and were the chief method of harvesting grain on small holdings until the early twentieth century. The binder cut and bundled the grain. (Los Alamos Historical Society) 46
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Homesteading on the Pajarito Plateau