Family's ranch buy ends up with more land than New York City

New York

PROPERTY developer Ronald Boeddeker and his wife, Kitty, were never interested in hunting.

But one day in 1991 they found themselves at the Safari Club International's convention in Reno, Nevada. Adrift in a sea of camouflage apparel and buck knives, she wandered into a small realtor's stall, where she saw a collection of ranches near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, listed for sale.