He was the youngest child of a family that lived on a modest working ranch near the hamlet of Lometa, Texas.

When we arrived at the modest ranch, the cheerful but clearly weathered Wetterman was watching TV with twin boys, her foster children.

He established a tourist rest and modest ranch in 1856.

More modest three-bedroom ranches have been selling recently for an average $250,000.

Michael Costantino had to wait almost two hours on the street to see a few modest ranches.

The house was a neat, modest, tuck-under ranch across the street from a golf course.

"Our drivers tell us they deliver to college dorms, modest ranches and gated communities," Ms. Merzbacher said.

It was a modest hacienda-style ranch, a couple of bedrooms, tile roof.

Most homeowners are year-round residents, many in modest ranches or Cape Cods clustered near lakes.

I turned down the familiar gravel driveway and parked at the house, a modest ranch that Jason kept up pretty well.