The group’s founder Bob Weir stayed at Bar Cross Ranch, where he wrote music with the owner Barlow. Barlow and Weir wrote 30 songs together, including “Black-Throated Wind,” “Mexicali Blues,” and “Cassidy.”

Weir and Barlow met when the former left home at 15 and went to work at the ranch, which belonged to Barlow’s parents at the time. Weir reminisced about his time at the Wyoming ranch in his 2016 album Blue Mountain. He told NPR he loved returning to the ranch to work with Barlow. He said, “We’d live on the ranch… and if I helped out, we’d have more time to write.”