Nevadans for Cultural Preservation

October 2024

NVFCP held an outreach booth for Public Lands Day at Walking Box Ranch in Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. Folks volunteered to clean up around the ranch in the hot temperatures. Trucks took others to work on other manual labor tasks like repairing fencing. What an amazing dedicated group of folks interested in helping the ranch and monument. The day ended in early afternoon with root beer floats and lively conversations. Check out the Friends of Avi Kwa Ame for upcoming events and tours of the ranch. 

Photo is a view from inside the Walking Box Ranch. 

"The Walking Box Ranch is a 160-acre ranch in Searchlight, Nevada that was owned by silent film stars Rex Bell and Clara Bow from the 1930s through the 1940s. Rex Bell (née George Francis Beldam) purchased the ranch in 1931 from John Woolf who bought it from the Rock Springs Land and Cattle Company. The Walking Box Ranch name and cattle brand were inspired by a film making process and motif popular at the time: a box camera mounted on a tripod." read more