Figure 1.--This is a scene at Fuller Lodge, the main building at the Los Alamos Ranch School. The dining room was located there. The boys here look to be waiting for lunch. The building would become the social center of the Los Alamos atomic bomb project.

Most readers will instandly recognize Los Alamos as the isolated place in New Mexico where the American atomic bombs were designed and built. The site for the project was to be this isolated little known boys' school. The site was chosen because scientific project manager, pysicist Robert Oppenheimer as a boy became enchanted with the natural beauties of New Mexico. He knew that the Manhattan Project leader, Gen. Leslie Groves was concerned about security. And Los Alamos was perfect from a security pont of view--put everyone behind barbed wire in one of the most remote locations in the country. The history of the school dates back to the late-19th century. The Homestead Act (1862), opened Werstern lands for small-sacle land ownership. Homesteaders in the area utilized the land for ranching. The homesteaders built basic log cabins that were only used during warm weather to help feed and maage the livestock. Most eventually moved down to the warmer Rio Grande Valley. Homesteader Harold H. Brook sold part of his land and buildings to Ashley Pond II, (1917). Pond was a Detroit businessman who used the land to founded the Los Alamos Ranch School. Pond believed the rugged New Mexico landscape could be used to teach tenage boys ranching and outdoor skills as part of gtheir education--skills which could have a very positive impact in building character. Here we see echos of Kurt Hann and Gordonstoun in Scotland. The Ranch School hyad to be closed at the height of its success, giving way to World War II and the Manhattan Project. The school was reopened at the Sagebrush Inn.

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