Cibolo Creek Ranch

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = El Fortin del Cibolo Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd

| image = Cibolo Creek Ranch, Presidio County, Texas (2009).jpg

| caption = Nightfall at Cibolo Creek Ranch

| nearest_city = Shafter, Texas

| coordinates = {{coord|29|51|43|N|104|20|1|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Texas#USA

| locmap_label = El Fortin del Cibolo Historic District

| locmap_relief = yes

| built = {{Start date|1865}}

| builder = Milton Faver

| architect =

| architecture =

| added = April 6, 1995

| area = {{convert|606.6|acre}}

| mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500639.pdf Historic Resources Associated with Milton Faver, Agriculturist, MPS]

| refnum = 95000366{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Cibolo Creek Ranch is a historic place in Presidio County, Texas, United States. Established as a cattle ranch prior to the Civil War, it has been used in modern times for hunting and a shooting location for the movie industry. It includes a fort called El Fortin del Cibolo which has been renovated as a luxury hotel featuring watchtowers and three-foot-thick adobe walls.{{cite book |last1=Parent |first1=Laurence |last2=Patoski |first2=Joe Nick |year=2001 |title=Texas Mountains |publisher=University of Texas Press |page=69 |isbn=9780292765924}}

Location

The ranch is situated in the Chinati Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, near Shafter, Texas, approximately {{convert|15|mi}} east of the Mexico–United States border.{{cite news|last1=Abramson|first1=Bein|last2=Bacon|first2=John|title=Cibolo Creek Ranch: Wildlife, movie sets, luxury|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2016/02/13/cibolo-creek-ranch-resort-texas/80356210/|accessdate=February 14, 2016|work=USA Today|date=February 14, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Blinder|first1=Alan|last2=Fernandez|first2=Manny|title=Texas Ranch Where Scalia Died Is Rugged Oasis for the Famous|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/texas-ranch-where-scalia-died-is-rugged-oasis-for-the-famous.html?ribbon-ad-idx=19&rref=politics&_r=0|accessdate=February 14, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=February 13, 2016}} It spans {{convert|30000|acre|abbr=on}}, and U.S. Route 67 passes through the property.

The Cibolo Creek Ranch Airport is located {{convert|3.5|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of the hotel.{{cite gnis|1387365|Cibolo Creek Ranch Airport}}

History

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Fortin de la Cienega

| nrhp_type =

| image =

| caption =

| nearest_city = Shafter, Texas

| coordinates ={{coord|29|48|13|N|104|12|41|W|display=inline}}

| locmapin = Texas#USA

| locmap_label = Fortin de la Cienega

| locmap_relief = yes

| built = {{Start date|1854}}

| builder = Milton Faver

| architect =

| added = October 8, 1976

| area = {{convert|9|acre}}

| refnum = 76002059{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = La Morita Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd

| image =

| caption =

| nearest_city = Shafter, Texas

| coordinates ={{coord|29|46|51|N|104|15|16|W|display=inline}}

| locmapin = Texas#USA

| locmap_label = La Morita Historic District

| locmap_relief = yes

| built = {{Start date|1865}}

| builder = Milton Faver

| architect =

| architecture =

| added = April 6, 1995

| area = {{convert|116.2|acre}}

| mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500639.pdf Historic Resources Associated with Milton Faver, Agriculturist, MPS]

| refnum = 95000367{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Milton Faver established the ranch in the 1850s and built three adobe forts, called El Cibolo, La Cienega, and La Morita, for defense against the Apache people who refused to leave the land.{{cite book |last1=Witynski |first1=Karen |last2=Carr |first2=Joe P. |year=2001 |title=Casa Adobe |publisher=Gibbs Smith |page=140 |isbn=9781586850319}}{{cite news |last=Barnett |first=Tracy |date=November 19, 2006 |title=Cibolo Creek Ranch: A world-class ranch getaway, Cibolo Creek lives up to its reputation |url=http://www.chron.com/life/travel/article/CIBOLO-CREEK-RANCH-1856453.php |newspaper=San Antonio Express-News |access-date=February 17, 2016}} He raised 200,000 Texas Longhorn cattle.

The ranch has been used by the movie industry since the 1950s. For example, Giant was shot on the ranch in 1956. More recently, it was used as a shooting location for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005, followed by There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in 2007.

The ranch was purchased by John B. Poindexter, the founder and chief executive officer of Houston-based manufacturing firm J.B. Poindexter & Co.{{cite web|title=Company Overview of J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc.: John B. Poindexter|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=81037&privcapId=21219|website=Bloomberg Business|accessdate=February 15, 2016}} Poindexter turned the historic forts into luxury hotel rooms. The grounds are used for big game and bird hunting. It hosted a gathering of members of the International Order of St. Hubertus, a male-only fraternity of hunters, in 2010.{{cite news|last1=Viebeck|first1=Elise|title=Inside Cibolo Creek Ranch, the luxury resort where Scalia died|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/13/inside-cibolo-creek-ranch-the-luxury-resort-where-scalia-died/|accessdate=February 14, 2016|work=The Washington Post|date=February 13, 2016}}

A wildfire spread across 1,700 acres of the ranch in 1994.{{cite news|title=Fires under control in Presidio County|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/9488635/?terms=%22Cibolo%2BCreek%2BRanch%22|accessdate=February 16, 2016|work=The Facts|date=July 10, 1994|location=Clute, Texas|page=7|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}

In May 1999, the ranch hosted the wedding of country musicians Charlie Robison and Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks.{{cite news|title=Dixie Chicks member weds in West Texas|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/18936484/?terms=%22Cibolo%2BCreek%2BRanch%22|accessdate=February 16, 2016|work=The Kerrville Times|page=16|location=Kerrville, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration |quote=Emily Erwin of the Texas-born group married fellow Texan and musician Charlie Robison on Saturday at Cibolo Creek Ranch in the Big Bend.}}

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the ranch in 2016. Among his fellow guests at the ranch were members of the International Order of St. Hubertus.{{cite web | last1 = Brittain | first1 = Amy | last2 = Horwitz | first2 = Sari | title = Justice Scalia Spent His Last Hours With Members of This Secretive Society of Elite Hunters | work = The Washington Post | date = February 24, 2016 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html}}

{{wide image|Cibolo Creek Ranch, Presidio County, Texas (2008).jpg|1000px|alt=Cibolo Creek Ranch in 2008|Cibolo Creek Ranch in 2008}}