It is representative of the infrastructure required by cattle ranching operations in the Southwestern United States.

[2] The 2 acres (0.81 ha) district consists of five structures: a farmhouse, a bunkhouse, a corral, a tack room, and a hay barn.

Browning was well known among the quarter-horse set, helping to organize the American Quarter Horse Association in 1940.

Browning's son, Alvin, and his wife, Lavinia, moved into the house in 1949, to run the ranch for his father.

Shortly afterwards, Alvin and his ranch hands built the bunk house, hay barn and tack room.