Riddle Brothers Ranch National Historic Site. S E N W. Tour the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House from your couch find creative activities for whole family and connect with us during live virtual events.
For more information on Riddle Brothers Ranch or. Tour the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House from your couch find creative activities for whole family and connect with us during live virtual events. Riddle Brothers Ranch Main Barn on the Riddle Brothers Ranch Historic District in the Steens Mountain Area Oregon.
Walter Frederick and Benjamin Riddle were three bachelor brothers who secured home sites and raised livestock in and around the ranch.
Riddle Brothers Ranch is part of the historic context of pioneer settlement and the development of the livestock industry in the American West. In 1986 Burns District BLM acquired 7500 acres of land on the west flank of Steens Mountain. The Riddle Brothers Ranch was part of Oregons last frontier the settlement on semiarid lands which captured the interest of thousands of speculators and home-seekers in the northern Great Basin between 1900 and 1920. Walter Frederick and Benjamin Riddle were three bachelor brothers who secured home sites and raised livestock in and around the ranch.
