Cross Bar Ranch

Cross Bar Ranch is a small cattle operation located 25 miles southwest of Brimstone, NM owned and operated by ranchers Darren Cross and Morley Barr. The ranch has over three hundred head of cattle and about twenty hands. The ranch's brand is a symbol of the letters "C" and "B" together.

For the past year, the local chapter of the Territorial Rangers has called the ranch its home, with the headquarters situated in one of the ranch's farm houses refitted for the Rangers' needs. In 1883, only a few months after taking his post as regional leader of the Rangers, Lieutenant Willard Leighton and his men drove off the notorious cattle rustling gang The Prairie Mosquitoes who had attacked the ranch several times, and killed their leader Connie Lorko. This began a friendship between Leighton and the ranch owners, and the eventual offering to host the Rangers at the local homestead.