A Ranch's Observation

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“Dennis and Deb have a unique history,” says Rafael de Grenade, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona; she met the couple in 1993, when she was a 13-year-old longing to be a cowgirl. Dennis and Deb took her in “like family” and taught her how to rope and ride, how to gather and brand. De Grenade’s parents were farming and ranching on 55 acres near the Moroney’s ranch in Prescott—which is “some of the most difficult ranching country, anywhere,” she says. “There were a lot of pretty hardcore ranch families with strong identities as rough country cowboys. Dennis came in, a hippie with a beard, and Deb, a doctor with Hispanic roots—it caused a lot of suspicion.