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' millwork, dewrative items and even whole houses available to fazmers and ranchers. These tools of mass mazketing acted to increase the diversity of the region's built environment, but at the same time made much of the area look like farms and ranches from Ohio to the Rockies. ' Outbuildings that appeaz to have been fairly common were pump houses for domestic and/or agricultural water supply, animal sheds either attached to the barn or sepazate, chicken coops and granaries. The one common denominator, the bazn, originally served three basic functions, ' storage of hay, an azea for intensive livestock husbandry such as milking or draft animal care, and storage for some machinery. Beyond those fairly common buildings the diversity grew. At approximately the same time the automobile caused ranchers to construct gazages or convert ' carriage houses. The garages generally were sepazate from the house, sometimes connected by a breezeway. ' Sienificance: The significance of the ranches in the study azea is rooted in the association of these properties with the rapid settlement of Colorado's Western Slope at the close of the nineteenth century followed by attempts of the residents to fmd economically viable uses for ' their properties. The popularity of the area as a place to settle and ranch is directly tied to the opening of the Ute Reservation for settlement after 1881 and the beef bonanza of the same period. The end of the period of significance is mazked by the changes that took place in the ' area as a result of World Waz II and the adjustments azea residents and ranchers made to the changed economy of the United States that followed the Waz. Properties in this type are associated either with National Register Criteria a, c or d under the area of significance of agriculture at the local level, or representative of discernable types and methods of construction associated with the three stages of azchitectural development discussed above (for Criterion c eligibility). To be considered significant under Criterion d the resource must have the ability ' to offer significant information pertinent to one or more of the research topics discussed below. These Criterion d research concerns are based on research topics which are found in the ' Colorado Historical Society's RP3 Colorado Historical Archaeology Context by Buckles and Buckles (1984: 8). ' The research concerns identified aze: Can technological or stylistic changes be found that can be used to explain changes in ranching techniques and practices that the local residents made in their efforts to adapt to the local aridity, soils and changing mazket conditions? ' Are there identifiable differences in the consumption habits, building techniques, or the spatial patterning of activities that can be found to reflect the cyclic nature of prosperity experienced by ranchers in the azea between 1890 and 1942? Can changes in those patterns be traced through time that would reflect and explain the vaziations in the rates of self-sufficiency versus market dependent consumption? 13 ~J