Deer Run Ranch Bed & Breakfast Carson City, Nevada Step out of the urban life, and into the peace and tranquility of one of the most idyllic spots in Nevada! Contact Info | Email this page to a Friend | Click to see a map  | Additional Pages... Introduction Guest Rooms/Rates Area Attractions About Your Hosts Our Favorite Recipe Comments Kid Friendly   Availability Search: See which rooms are available during your stay. Check in: Check out: Powered by Webervations Clear search results Rooms Available from  to  Learn more about these rooms These are our base rates - certain discounts and/or charges may apply

The original ranch, called the Quarter Circle JP, was purchased in 1937 by Emily and Jim Greil (Muffy's parents) for back taxes of $2400. It and the "Goat Ranch" at the foot of Jumbo Grade two miles north of here were the only residences on the one lane, dirt road around this side of Washoe Lake. All the children in the valley went to the one room schoolhouse in Franktown, directly across the lake - grades 1-8, one teacher.

Legend has it that the ranch springs - including our spring and pond - watered small truck gardens, the produce being carried by wagon up "Deadman's" (our main driveway) and Jumbo Grades to Virginia City during the height of the mining boom on the Comstock in the late 1800s.

Sometime after the end of World War I, prohibition became the law of the land, and the "Moonshiners" gravitated to isolated lands with plenty of water to set up their stills. The spring tunnels here on the ranch were used for that purpose, and at some point before the repeal of prohibition in 1933, government agents blew up the stills, destroying the tunnel at our spring. Excavations for our house unearthed pipes and other distillery relics, as well as some of the old shoring from the original spring.

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