Lawrence Ranch

The panel calls the ranch a gift, and Lawrence would not take it as one. Mabel Dodge Luhan offered the 160-acre Kiowa Ranch on Lobo Mountain in 1924; he refused, Frieda accepted, and the Lawrences paid with the original manuscript of Sons and Lovers. He died in France in 1930, and his ashes reached the shrine in 1935. Frieda died here in 1956, is buried before the shrine, and left the ranch to the University of New Mexico, whose name heads the panel.

What the plaque says

Lawrence Ranch University of New Mexico The Kiowa Ranch, home of nov- elist D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda in 1924-25, was given to them by Mabel Dodge Luhan. Frieda continued to live at the ranch after his death, and later married Angelo Ravagli. In 1934 they built a shrine for Lawrence's ashes. Aldous Huxley was among the many visitors to the ranch.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rio Grande Gorge Bridge — 8.0 mi
  A steel truss strung across a slot in the basalt west of Taos, 565 feet above the river by the careful measure and 650 by the signs, built when the road beyond it did not yet exist.
• Taos Pueblo — 12 mi
  Two terraced adobe houses facing each other across Red Willow Creek, lived in for something like a thousand years, with no electricity or running water inside the old walls.
• San Francisco de Asís Church, Ranchos de Taos — 16 mi
  The adobe church at Ranchos de Taos that artists always paint from behind, kept standing by the mud its parish spreads over it every June.

More markers nearby

• Jack M. Campbell — 7.9 mi
• Rio Grande Gorge State Park — 8.1 mi
• Taos — 11 mi
• Kit Carson Memorial Cemetery — 13 mi