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WLM | home County, WY. Thus Paradise Guest Ranch was born. Son Jackson was born in 1909. A tragic case of appendicitis and subsequent ruptured appendix ended the young life of Dr. Gordon Meldrum in 1911, leaving his two year old son and heartbroken wife, but also a grieving community. As the Buffalo Bulletin reported on July 13, 1911, “…the telegraph wires brought the most terrific shock that the people of this community have ever experienced, when it gave the sad tidings that Dr. Meldrum was dead.” Mabel remarried in 1916, to a young and wealthy lawyer from New York, George Wolcott. George and Mabel ran the Paradise Guest Ranch together, and George built Mabel www.wyolifestyle.com 11