Few ranches can claim to have helped save a prehistoric lake bed, yet one in the Colorado mountains did exactly that. Over decades, Agnes Ryan Singer and her husband, Palmer, grew their property into a sprawling 840-acre working ranch and tourist attraction above one of the richest fossil beds anywhere in the world. After widowhood, she formally urged the federal government to protect the ancient treasures beneath her pastures, and once Congress agreed, she sold the land to the nation. This is the story of the ranch, the family behind it, and the woman who helped secure a national monument.
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