[2][3] The Jensen Ranch was established in an unpromising section of Sublette County in sagebrush land.

There he met his wife, a Nebraskan widow named Hannah Percilla Dodd, who already had two children of her own.

he found a job with the Union Pacific Railroad, working at several locations in Wyoming.

The ranch passed to his son Otto in 1945, when Metinus and Hannah moved to Rock Springs.

This article about a property in Wyoming on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.