so borene is is a california artist born in san leandro, california 1872. he's probably the most important cowboy artist of that area and to me because he actually was a cowboy, you know, remington and charlie russell were not cowboys by profession by any stretch of the imagination. where's borene really was and he worked on ranches throughout california and mexico participated in massive cattle drives, but was this marvelous draftsman and you can see that illustrated in this drawing, you know, just a beautiful piece he was a master of ink india inc. and the brush and he becomes good friends with bad bradford britain and britain goes on to collect over 230 pieces of borene's work. so we're now in the britain house and this is you know, this is the original part of the institution. so for the first 50 years of the institutions history, this was the main thing to see here, but the house dates back to 1892 william moncrief and his brother malcolm billed the house and then william lives here with his wife until 1910 when he sells the biggest part of the ranch t