Article: Romancing the West: beach house? They'll take a Big Sky ranch.(EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Montana Ranch)(Grand River Ranch)

When David Leuschen describes his Montana ranch, it sounds as if he's exaggerating. He owns about 200,000 acres of snow-covered peaks and gaping canyons outside Yellowstone National Park and runs 2,000 head of cattle on one of the larger operations in the state. He accesses the high-altitude portion of his ranch by all-terrain vehicle over 23 switchbacks, along a trail with 2,000-foot-high cliffs where the occasional mountain goat, wolf and grizzly bear is the only company. "This is arguably the most remote ranch in the Lower 48," he says.

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The views from Leuschen's Switchback Ranch, straddling the Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains, ...

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