Jack London's Ranch AlbumPage 1 of 3
"Next to my wife, the ranch is the dearest thing in the world to me.
Heavens! I sit up nights over that ranch . . . ."
October 7, 1914
"I have long since decided to buy land in the woods, somewhere, and build. ...For over a year, I have been planning this home proposition, and now I am just beginning to see my way clear to it. I am really going to throw out an anchor so big and so heavy that all hell could never get it up again. In fact, it’s going to be a prodigious, ponderous sort of anchor."
The Jack London Ranch consisted of
seven parcels purchased over several years.
Hill Ranch
"There are 130 acres in the place, and they are 130 acres of the most beautiful, primitive land to be found in California. There are great redwoods on it, some of them thousands of years old. . . in fact, the redwoods are as fine and magnificent as any to be found anywhere outside the tourists groves. Also there are great firs, tanbark oaks, maples, live-oaks, white-oaks, black-oaks, madrono and manzanita galore. There are canyons, several streams of water, many springs . . . I have been riding all over these hills, looking for just such a place, and I must say that I have never seen anything like it."
Kohler & Frohling Ranch
"I am buying seven hundred acres of land that rounds out and connects my present two ranches, giving me miles of frontage on three creeks, and some magnificent mountain land, to say nothing of the timber - real wild country. . ."
