Wyoming Ranch Where JFK Jr. Worked!

A 12,000-acre Wyoming ranch where a teenage John F. Kennedy Jr. spent a summer working and where the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir wrote music is for sale at $35 million. Located about 60 miles from Jackson Hole, Bar Cross includes a 1910-era home with four bedrooms, manager's house, foreman's home, two bunkhouses, and a shop with a one-bedroom apartment. There are also barns, an outdoor arena and a round pen for horses. The ranch dates back to the early 1900s, not long after President Benjamin Harrison signed legislation to make Wyoming a state.

With its background of the Wind River Mountain and nearby Bridger Teton National Forest, Bar Cross Ranch includes about 12,000 acres and operates on over 30,000 acres with a large cattle operation, world-class fishing and hunting, and excellent water access including over two miles of New Fork River frontage. The ranch was started by P.W. Jenkins, a Wisconsin math teacher who moved to Wyoming in 1904, worked there for his uncle as a ranch hand, and then began his own Bar Cross Ranch. He later served in the Wyoming State House of Representatives. According to a memoir written by Jenkins’ grandson, a teenage John F. Kennedy Jr. spent a summer working on the ranch and Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead wrote music at the ranch in the 1970s.

One of the largest states by area in the United States, Wyoming is the least populated state in the country with less than 600,000 people. The state’s wide-open spaces has attracted many celebrities in recent years, including Kanye West and Harrison Ford. The listing agent is James H. Taylor with Hall and Hall.