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property in 1940. She had been spending her sum-
mers at the cabin at the dude ranch. But she pre-
ferred solitude, so Arthur Pack offered to rent to
her his residence called Rancho de Los Burros.
One spring, O’Keeffe arrived unexpectedly and to
her dismay found someone else living there. “What
those people were doing in my house!” she de-
manded of her friend Pack. He pointed out that it
wasn’t her house. That was the wrong answer for
the strong-willed artist. Soon it was hers.

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