"Waking Up at the UU Bar"
Photo By: Judy Brodland
Express Ranches and Express Clydesdales have been long-standing customers of Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop, owning both a custom stagecoach and hitchwagon. Within the last year their large touring-style stagecoach underwent restoration and their new hitchwagon is nearly completed!
Photo by Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop
Just recently, the Clydesdales were featured in the Draft Horse Journal's Spring 2015 issue with an article by Judy Brodland. Once a year the Express Clydesdales travel to the Express UU Bar Ranch in Cimarron, NM, for a photo shoot - and a history lesson.
The history of the UU Bar ranch goes back to the mid-1800s when the now-180,000 acre ranch was originally part of Lucien Maxwell's Maxwell Land Grant - one of the most substantial land grants in history. Waite Phillips, of Phillips 66 Petroleum, then purchased 500,000 acres in 1927, and gifted 37,000 acres to the Philmont Scout Ranch (another HWWS customer).
Today the Philmont Scout Ranch and UU Bar Ranch together comprise 317,000 of the original Phillips' land, as current owner Bob Funk works to include most of the original ranch acres. The ranch is now home to an abundance of wildlife and the Express Ranches well-known Limousin, Angus, and Lim-Flex pedigreed cattle.
Read more about the interesting history of the ranch and the area surrounding the UU Bar in the online article, and see additional photos by picking up your own issue of The Draft Horse Journal.
