How Everything Started
In the late 1870s three cowboys, Buddy Taylor, Arthur Taylor, and Lester Taylor were selling beef cattle to the miners in Telluride , Colorado. While there working they befriended a small band of Ute indians. One of the Utes spoke English, having been raised in a convent in New Mexico.
These Taylor men were avid horsemen also, always bantering the Utes for a horse race. A bond of respect and friendship was established between these horsesmen of two very diverse cultures.
As summer drew to a close the Utes shared the knowledge that there was a straighter, faster way back to the mormon settlements in northern Utah. They disclosed the route over the La Sal Mountains, through the Moab valley and the ford across the Colorado river there.
The Taylors came back that way, finding the lush graze on the East face of the La Sals(home of today's summer pastures of Taylor Creek ranch.) They continued on to Moab valley, then and there deciding to bring their families and livestock back as soon as possible.
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Don Taylor was a sheep, cattle and horseman. His dream was keeping the ranch together for the family to use and enjoy. Fancy race horses were his only vice. He match raced his horses and did relay team races around southeast Utah and western Colorado. Don's third grandson was to have a passion for horses even greater than GRAN DON. Joe D.Taylor was encouraged and taught by Don and aunt Clara Taylor Gerhardt to become the dedicated horseman that he became. Joe's dream was to breed a family horses that were well conformed and had a love of people. Today's Taylor Creek Ranch foals will leave their dams to be petted by visitors.