SAN SIMEON, Calif. — When George Hearst — William Randolph Hearst’s father — purchased a ranch in 1865 it was beautiful, rugged and iconic.
One hundred years later, the purchase of the nearby Jack Ranch nearly doubled the size of the operation to 156,000 acres.
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