Maintain onto your cowboy hats. A working Nevada cattle ranch the place the Duke himself, John Wayne, as soon as filmed a Western film is up for grabs, asking $15 million.
This sprawling 1,230-acre property, often known as Jacks Valley Ranch, was the longtime house of the late on line casino mogul John Ascuaga, who snagged this prime slice of the Wild West again in 1969, in line with the Wall Road Journal, which first reported information of the itemizing.
Nestled on the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, it’s 6 miles from Carson Metropolis and 40 miles south of Reno.
Relationship to 1860, this ranch is full of historical past. It boasts 4 homes, together with a 5,400-square-foot essential home with three bedrooms and a research, plus barns which can be virtually as outdated as Nevada itself.
There’s even a pool with a large “A” on the backside, and a cemetery the place Nineteenth-century pioneers lay.
Ascuaga, who turned a small espresso store into the bustling Nugget on line casino in Sparks, made this ranch his retreat from the glitz and glam of the on line casino world. His children, together with son Stephen Ascuaga, grew up with the last word playground: hay barns, ponds and even a pet deer named Bananas.
“You’d go away the home and be again for dinner,” Stephen instructed the Journal. Bananas the deer would even race vehicles up the driveway.
The ranch was additionally a hotspot for celeb company like Purple Skelton and Roy Clark, who’d hang around by day and entertain on line casino crowds by night time. And in that brush with Hollywood glory, the opening scene of John Wayne’s “The Shootist” was filmed there. The Duke himself waved to Stephen’s college bus because it handed the set someday, as Stephen was a younger boy on the time of manufacturing.
“All the children had the home windows down and everybody was excited,” Stephen recalled. “[Wayne] was gracious that means.”
In fact, no good story is full with out a spooky twist. The ranch’s outdated graveyard was the go-to spot for double dare punishments. Loser needed to dash by the cemetery — a half-mile from the principle home — at the hours of darkness.
However all good issues should come to an finish. With the passing of John Ascuaga in 2021 and his spouse Rose in 2020, the household determined it’s time to go the torch. “The ranch was dad’s ardour,” Stephen mentioned. “We’ve come to phrases with the truth that it might be time for another person to get pleasure from it.”
For these seeking to dwell out their very own Western desires, the ranch presents 4 developable parcels and 1,170 acres beneath conservation easement, making certain it stays a cowboy’s paradise.
Ranch dealer Mike Dunn says post-COVID, there’s been a growth in demand for personal, safe properties like this. With its proximity to a non-public airport, plus lots of of acres of pasture and forest, Jacks Valley Ranch is described as “a uncommon gem.”
Dunn of Chase Worldwide Luxurious Actual Property is itemizing the property with agent Megan Lowe.