Wear jeans and bring your Stetson. The pretentious, put-your-feet-up- comfortable ranch has an amiable bustle, but all is low-key and accommodating, staff included. The strategy for winning guests over (and over) is deceptively simple: lure them with old-fashioned hospitality, give them fine dining, and pamper them in the 10,000 square-foot spa. Dallas’ internationally acclaimed Dallas design firm, Wilson Associates, blended high and risky aspirations in the 56 casitas and 9 suites. Guests needn’t forsake city slicker amenities (plasma TV, DVD player, and high-speed internet), yet the rooms and their original artworks are rooted in a sense of place. That’s because, says the design director Jim Rimelspach, “Local iron workers fabricated the fireplace screens and curtain rods, and everything else was handmade, including the rugs – woven to resemble Indian blanket designs – and the Pueblo drums that double as tables. The firm also commissioned titantic bathrooms with deep soaking tubs, down pillows, dark stained bamboo plank flooring, leather headboards, fluffy duvets, all-cotton sheets, and heavy linen blackout drapes. Still, I was comforted most by my enormous private balcony and the glow of my beehive-shaped kiva wood-burning fireplace.