Gilcrease Orchard is a family ranch and orchard formed in 1920 by Elda and Leonard Gilcrease, as well as their sons John Theodore and William Orr. Leonard came from Lemoore, California, and met Elda at UNR, where both were pursing bachelors' degrees. They married and used Elda's inheritance from her family to purchase 900 aachres in the Las Vegas Valley for a family ranch and farm. The couple divorced in 1930 and Elda ran the farm by herself until her death in 1968, passing it on to her son's to continue the family business.