Lori Ann & Rainy Day

Horses are in Lori Ann's Blood. In 1852, her great great grandfater traveled on horseback from Texas to California to survey the land, as he planned to move his family there during the Gold Rush. The family followed along into California in ox drawn wagons, becoming the first settlers in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains along the rich Kings River in 1861. This area is now part of Fresno County, but at that time, the town was known as Scottsburg, and much later became Centerville.

Her forebears lived off of the plentiful land by milling and selling lumber forested from the surrounding mountains. Their true stake, in life and in this land, came from running cattle and horses on their ranch land, which was known as the "Lower Mill Creek Place." By 1912 the ranch had evolved in to the thriving and then famous "Wonder Valley Dude Ranch," where the original barn built back in 1887 still stands today. Generations later, the family moved down to the valley below and settled in the town of Sanger. They continued to make their way in Sanger for years to come, running cattle and horses and raising crops.


Lori Ann's Life began in that very same town of Sanger, CA. She grew up listening to her great grandparents tell cowboy stories from times long passed. She rode on horseback across the very same hills her great great grandfather had tamed as his own part of the Wild West.

In 1998 Lori Ann relocated to Southern California, where she now works as an Account Executive for a major printing company providing packaging and Point of Purchase Displays to the major movie studios. She purchased her 7 year old registered paint mare, Rainy Day, and she enriches Lori Ann's life in ways that only a fellow horse lover could understand. This is Lori Ann, a country girl from a small farming town, living in the Big City… Horse in tow!