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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
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