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A History of the Pedernales Falls Area, 1850–1970
Figure 19. Rear view of the
Wheatley manse, ca. 1950s.
Photo courtesy of Sherill East,
Diana L. Cooper, and
Candace K. Sandefur.
Figure 20. A view of the Wheatley dining room
in the late 1950s. Photo courtesy of Sherill East,
Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur.
About the same time that the “manse” was being built, the Wheatleys also
began to stock the ranch with cattle, bringing in about 300 purebred Hereford
cows and calves. (Within “a couple years,” this original herd would be replaced by
steers and goats.) 78 Using the graders, the Wheatleys eventually cut other roads
around the ranch, or, as in the area north of the Pedernales where the Wilsons
used to live, they widened existing paths. Workers also built a new barn in the
ranch complex around the old Wenmohs house, near Maume’s old residence.
About 1958 another fence enclosed the southern third of the property. Over the
years, different parts of the Circle Bar Ranch acquired names. The area north of
the fence built by the Ulrich brothers, for example, became known as the “Mum
(Maume) trap”; the area between that fence and the area south of it was called
the “south pasture,” and the part of the ranch north of the Pedernales became “the
north pasture.” 79
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