How a U.S. President Built His Texas Ranch: George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel

How a U.S. President Built His Texas Ranch: George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel In 1999, the governor of Texas bought an old family farm outside Crawford, a town of roughly seven hundred people. Two years later, he was President of the United States, and that quiet stretch of Texas prairie was hosting Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Online, you’ll hear that Prairie Chapel Ranch hides a secret bunker and a runway for Air Force One. But the real story is stranger. A Texas oilman built one of the greenest homes in America, and hardly anyone talks about it. So how did it happen? Let’s find out.