dude ranch

dude (“inexperienced cowboy”) +‎ ranch. 1921, see quotation below.

dude ranch (plural dude ranches)

1. Synonym of guest ranch
   • 1921 March, Scribner's Magazine, volume 343, number 1:

     ‘Is this Scott Lawson's dude ranch?’ soberly inquired the rider of the pinto.

   • 1956, P. G. Wodehouse, 'French Leave', Barrie & Jenkins, London: 1974, p 125.

     ...I didn't get on very well with my stepmother, so I cleared off and went to America. I was there several years, doing various jobs. I was on the waterfront for a time, and I worked on a dude ranch and went prospecting with a friend of mine in the Mojave desert and ... oh, lots of things. When the war broke out, I was a waiter at a New York hotel.

• dude rancher

• “dude ranch”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “dude ranch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.