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Sep 22, 2023 · In 1924, George Gordon Moore purchased the ranch from Sargent’s heirs and renamed the land Rancho San Carlos. Under Moore’s ownership, Rancho San Carlos was a getaway for elites who came to enjoy the luxury of his rural rancho.
Sep 25, 2023 · Hooper Bald was the site of the most unusual installation that western North Carolina had ever seen: a 1,600-acre private hunting preserve stocked with exotic game animals. The creator of this folly was my grandfather, a freewheeling business tycoon named George Gordon Moore.
Dec 26, 2019 · By Katie Dowd, Managing editor Updated Dec 26, 2019 5:47 a.m. A California feral wild boar, the direct result of George Gordon Moore's hunting escapades in the 1920s. Steve Maslowski/Getty...
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Dec 5, 2023 · Our Verdict. GET IT. In this memoir/biography, a woman chronicles the extraordinary life of her grandfather, who may have been the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary Jay Gatsby. Rathbun grew up knowing very little about her maternal grandfather, George Gordon Moore—at best, she had access to “sketchy details” about the man who ...
George Gordon Moore was a Canadian-born lawyer, businessman, and sportsman who created a hunting preserve in Hooper Bald, North Carolina, and a polo ranch in Monterey, California. Learn about his life, his projects, and his possible connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Corroborating Jeffers' lyric account, below is the full text of a letter from George Gordon Moore, owner of the Rancho San Carlos in Carmel Valley during the 1920's, to Stuyvesant Fish whose family owned the neighboring Palo Corona Ranch (aka Fish Ranch) from the 1920's through the mid-1990's.
Apr 8, 2001 · Moore and her husband, Col. George Gordon Moore, lived at Holiday Hill Farm near Hillsboro. Advertisement The Murrays had never made Austrian shades, so they thought it best to go to the...
