A little lower down the hill the cowboy actor Raymond Cobb demolished a house and built on the spot his own sprawling ranch, complete with a pool in the shape of a sheriff's badge.

Craig drove down into the shallow dip below the main homestead towards the complex of offices, storerooms and tractor workshops which were the heart of the vast sprawling ranch.

At the entrance to the sprawling ranch, guests were asked to sign a release agreeing to participate in a television show about Mr. Jackson.

The Chaco region was best known for its contribution to cattle raising because of its lack of crops and its sprawling ranches.

Diego Fernando Murillo, a paramilitary commander being held in comfort on a sprawling ranch, has been transferred to Cómbita, one of Colombia's toughest prisons, President Álvaro Uribe announced.

Meanwhile, Joe Hardy, who also ran in the marathon, and his brother, Frank, head to the sprawling ranch belonging to the family of Cory Weston.

Tom McNeil, a genial 66-year-old cowboy, has a sprawling 5,000-acre ranch that a few generations ago would have supported many homesteading families.

It was a sprawling, low-slung ranch with long overhanging rooflines designed to protect inhabitants from the relentless Nevada sun.

The park includes President Johnson's sprawling ranch near Stonewall, about halfway between Johnson City and Fredericksburg.

He was proud of that house, a sprawling ranch in Taos.