Initial settlement and construction was by Andrew Smith, who removed the land from the public domain in 1891 and remained at the site with his family until 1900 when he sold the ranch to Gustave “Gus” Friskey, who, with his brother, Ernest, raised cattle, hay, and lettuce and staged a fall roundup to ship cattle from Buena Vista. The ranch buildings and layout are illustrative of the architecture and design of a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cattle and hay ranch with good examples of Pioneer Log construction from that period, displaying hewn and round logs, daubing, V-notching, and gable roofs. The site contains archaeological deposits that have yielded and are likely to yield important information about the lifeways of the site occupants.