The Sundance Kid broke horses here in 1891, and the Prince of Wales bought next door
One of the great ranches of the Canadian west, founded in 1881 and running at its height over 160,000 acres with 30,000 cattle and a thousand Percheron horses. Harry Longabaugh broke horses here in 1891, a few years before the world knew him as the Sundance Kid. Edward, Prince of Wales came out in 1919, liked it enough to buy the spread next door, and Charles M. Russell painted here. Parks Canada took the central part of it in 1991 and opened it in 1995, and it is a National Historic Site with costumed interpreters, open daily from mid-May to the end of September. It is a working landscape rather than a museum in a box: the foothills it sits in are the reason the ranch was put here.
Other places on the map within a couple of hours.
