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Stone Wall Ranch

Stone Wall Ranch is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Stone Wall Ranch rather than just read about it. In short: The Stone Wall Ranch, also known as the Reader or Rasmussen Ranch, is a ranch in the Little Snake River valley of Carbon County, Wyoming, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Savery. It was established by Noah and Hosannah Reader in 1871, the first permanent homestead in the valley.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

The Stone Wall Ranch, also known as the Reader or Rasmussen Ranch, is a ranch in the Little Snake River valley of Carbon County, Wyoming, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Savery. It was established by Noah and Hosannah Reader in 1871, the first permanent homestead in the valley. A temporary winter shelter was built in the winter of 1871-72, followed by a permanent structure in 1872-73 that survives in the ranch complex. The ranch was named for a nearby sandstone escarpment.

Description The main house was built circa 1916 of rock-faced concrete block on the ground floor, with a shingled second story. The shingled section uses Shingle Style detailing with a projecting bay under the gable flanked by curving returns, with an attic window between two inward-curving shingled jambs. The gabled roof incorporates plain and bayed dormers. A frosted front door depicting Niagara Falls is a notable ornament. Nearby was the original Reader cabin, built of logs laid over sandstone blocks. Other buildings include an ice house, a variety of sheds, a barn and corrals for livestock. The corrals use the Stone Wall escarpment to form one side of their enclosures. The ranch comprises about 160 acres (65 ha).

History Noah Reader (1821-1914) was born in Ohio. After participating in the California Gold Rush, working in lead mines in Illinois and farming in Iowa, Reader brought his wife Hosannah and sons George, William and Albert west, meaning to go to Montana. The family wintered on the Little Snake River in Wyoming and remained there. In 1931 the ranch passed to the Rasmussen family. The Stone Wall Ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1986. The original Reader cabin was donated to the Little Snake River Museum in 2007 and was moved to the museum in Savery in 2010, where it is on display.

References

External links Stone Wall Ranch at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office The Reader Family at the Little Snake River Museum's websoite

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Stone Wall Ranch

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Stone Wall Ranch claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Stone Wall Ranch before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Stone Wall Ranch ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Stone Wall Ranch

In research: Stone Wall Ranch appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Stone Wall Ranch in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Stone Wall Ranch is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1873, Homesteading in Wyoming, National Register of Historic Places in Carbon County, Wyoming, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Stone Wall Ranch outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Stone Wall Ranch in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Stone Wall Ranch matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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