The Walking Box Ranch is a 160-acre ranch in Searchlight, Nevada that was owned by silent film stars Rex Bell and Clara Bow from the 1930s through the 1940s. Rex Bell (née George Francis Beldam) purchased the ranch in 1931 from John Woolf who bought it from the Rock Springs Land and Cattle Company. The Walking Box Ranch name and cattle brand were inspired by a film making process and motif popular at the time: a box camera mounted on a tripod. The property served as a working cattle ranch, and Bow and Bell had a 5,000 square foot Spanish Revivial home built on the grounds. Rex Bell Jr. (née Rex Larbow Beldam) was born to Bell Sr. and Bow in 1934, and he grew up with his brother George (born in 1938) on the ranch until his parents separated in the mid-1940s. Bell Sr. sold the ranch to Karl "Cap" Weikel in 1951. Rex Bell Sr. went on to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1955 until his death in 1962. Rex Bell Jr. served as the Clark County Deputy District Attorney and also held one term as Lieutenant Governor. He died in 2011. Weikel continued to use Walking Box as a ranch until he sold the property in 1989 to Viceroy Gold Corporation, which used the property as an executive retreat. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) purchased the property in 2005. The ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 for its association with cattle ranching and its architectural significance.

Summary and photographs courtesy of Special Collections and Archives of The University of Nevada, Las Vegas with modifications to summary by historian Paula Jacoby-Garrett.