The D. H. Lawrence Ranch, as it is now known, was the home of the English novelist, D. H. Lawrence for about two years in the 1920s. The 160-acre property, originally named the Kiowa Ranch, is located at 8,600 feet above sea level on Lobo Mountain near San Cristobal in Taos County, about twenty miles northwest of Taos, New Mexico. D.H. Lawrence at age 21 (1906) David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, with his output spanning novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. ... Taos County is a county located in the state of New Mexico. ... Taos (IPA: ) is a city located in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico. ...

Lawrence and his wife Frieda visited New Mexico in 1922 at the invitation of Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy New York society hostess and arts patron who had taken up residence in Taos and had married a native American from Taos Pueblo, Tony Luhan. Some evidence suggests that Lawrence and Freida acquired the ranch during a return visit in 1924 in exchange for the manuscript of one of Lawrence’s most well-known novels, Sons and Lovers. Frieda von Richthofen (August 11, 1879 - August 11, 1956), a distant relative of the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen, became famous as the wife of the British novelist D. H. Lawrence. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ... Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan, née Ganson (February 26, 1879 - August 13, 1962) was a wealthy American patron of the arts, and a key figure in the Greenwich Village community in the years 1912 – 1916. ... Taos Pueblo, circa 1920 Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos), continuously inhabited for over 1000 years, is the ancient town of the Northern Tiwa speaking tribe of Pueblo people, Native Americans. ... Sons and Lovers is the third published novel of D.H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece. ...

While the couple spent a relatively short time there in the 1920s, it came to be a place of rest and relaxation for them, and it is where Lawrence wrote much of his novel, St Mawr, during five months of the summer of 1924. After Lawrence’s death in France in 1930, it is believed that his ashes were eventually brought to the ranch. Some controversy surrounds this issue, but it is thought that the ashes were mixed with concrete and formed part of the large memorial stone which was placed in a small covered building on the ranch site. St Mawr is a short novel (or novella) written by D H Lawrence. ...

At her death in 1956, Frieda was buried on the ranch property and she bequeathed it to the University of New Mexico, the present owner. The ranch and the Memorial (or “shrine” as it is sometimes known) may be visited. UNM has not kept the ranch as well maintained as many travelers think it should be. There is a guest sign-in book in the shrine, allowing visitors to see who has been there and from where they have traveled. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...

The Ranch is now placed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...

External links

• Detailed history of the Lawrence Ranch from UNM’s website
• Lawrence’s Memorial (or Shrine) with photographs
• Mallin, Dea Adria “The Frontier Spirit: D. H. Lawrence in Taos” from The Cultured Traveler website, September 2004; a detailed account of Lawrence in New Mexico
• Brown, Lawrence, “Homage to the DH Lawrence Ranch in Taos, New Mexico “, 1997