owner of a large Point Reyes ranch since the 1930s, did not live on the ranch, 

 and died in 1972. 185 



During the late 1960s and through the 1970s the ranch was inhabited by 

 hippies led by theater artist Peter Coyote, later to become a successful film 

 actor. Living the counterculture life that blossomed in the area during the late 

 1960s and through the 1970s, the occupants remodeled the interior of the house 

 with old barn wood and outfitted even the smallest outbuildings as homes; still, 

 the ranch had no electricity. The place became known as Coyote Ranch. The 

 last residents left in 1985. 186 



After the death of Ottinger's widow Kyoko in 1985, the conservator of 

 the estate began negotiations towards park purchase. Kyoko Ottinger also 

 owned the Hanna Boys Center and Florence Crittenden Home for Unwed 

 Mothers in San Francisco; these institutions as well as one Masayo Kitada 

 became the heirs to the estate. After pleas of hardship due to Kitada's illness 

 and the needs of the charitable institutions, the federal government bought the 

 property on October 29, 1987 for $600,000. Previous to the sale the grazing 

 leaseholder demolished the remaining buildings. Today the land is used for 

 grazing and feed crops under a special use permit to Robert Giacomini of Point 

 Reyes Station. 187 



3. Historic Resources 



No buildings remain on the Gallagher Ranch. The fence lines remain the 

 same but of updated materials, although a number of sections of older split 

 picket fences survive. The road to the ranch, about one mile of narrow dirt 

 road, dates from the earliest days and is a contributing feature to the cultural 

 landscape. 



185 Deeds Book P, p. 66, Official Records Book 1580, p. 36 & 38, Book 1976, p. 260, MCRO; 

 Dewey Livingston, Ranching on the Point Reyes Peninsula (Point Reyes: National Park Service, 

 1993), pp. 427-428; interviews with Marian (Gallagher) Morris and Virginia McFadden. Daniel 

 Gallagher's first wife, the former Ellen Ryan, died, leaving two children; Gallagher married 

 another Ellen Ryan and had two more children. 



186 Personal observations of the author. 

 ""Tract File (L-4125), Tract 05-137, PRNS. 



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