Guest Ranch History
Family-Owned Montana Ranch Since 1917
Welcome to the Hawley Mountain Guest Ranch! Our ranch is rich in Montana’s history. Many years ago the ranch was inhabited by tribes of prehistoric man. As time passed, other tribes, mainly the Crow Indians, settled some of the same area and left their imprint in the way of pictographs on cave walls and numerously found arrowhead and scraper artifacts. In 1976, Montana State University excavated an old Indian camping site and was able to date it back 11,500 years.
Late 1880s
Tom Hawley homesteaded 160 acres here on the Boulder River. The ranch and the mountain are named after him.
1919
The current owner’s grandmother arrived as a young bride and ran a cattle operation with her husband in the summers.
Later the ranch was used as a stopover for sheep traveling to high alpine summer grazing.
1972
Bill Jarrett and his Japanese born wife, Sadako, built the lodge and trout pond in and for the next seven years, lived year round on the ranch in only a trailer house.
1973
Bill Jarrett, ranch creator, opens the Dude ranch in 1973
1976
Archeological site is excavated in the meadow.
1992
Ron and Phyllis sold a half interest to fellow Montanan, Bryant Blewett and his wife, Ellen Marshall.
