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History of Two Bars Seven Ranch
The ranch was established during the days of the territorial government before Wyoming was a state.
It has been in the family for four generations and a dude ranch for three. Pictured on the left are the 2nd and 3rd generations, Teddy, Ted, Peggy, and Polly, circa 1950.
Our horses and cattle carry the lines of our ancestral breeding programs. Some of our
guests are also three generations of vacationers. The ranch is still its original size.
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We have done family reunions for people who have gotten married here and now have grand children. To be the place where it all got started is truly meaningful to us. It gives us such a wonderful purpose to our life's work as a dude ranch. The guests are riding horses that are descendants of their very first favorite horse and taking their next generation to their favorite old fishing hole.
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Before the Schaffers, the ranch was founded by a lady from Nova Scotia who raised draft horses, Hereford cattle,
and probably oxen for income. Here, pictured on the right, is grandma Polly Dawson Schaffer when she and
grandpa Edward hosted a feast for the neighorhood help gang during the early 1900's.
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A favorite early times dude story is of a visiting lady of a quite wealthy family from the east coast.
We couldn't ignore the very long time she spent in the ONLY bathroom on the ranch. We wondered if
she had an illness plus how long we could all last the wait! She liked it here, spent and additional week,
returned the next year and decided she didn't want to go back home. She moved into a rooming house we
helped her find. She got a job as a waitress and the last we knew of her, she was leaving town with a male customer.
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