Pearl Gesner

Pearl Gesner is the owner of the Little Patch of Heaven farm in Home on the Range.

Home on the Range
Pearl is an elderly farmer who owns a farm called Little Patch of Heaven. She is shown to love and care for all the animals who live on her farm, especially Maggie, a show cow that was sold by her owner and whom Pearl took in. She is also revealed to keep a few photos of her farm animals as fond memories, including one of her bottle-feeding Grace when she was a calf.

Later, Sheriff Sam Brown arrives on the farm and shows Pearl another bank notice, explaining that the banks are going to auction off her home if she can't pay the full amount she owes them because they are losing so much money due to cattle rustlers leaving behind so many bankrupt ranchers. He then suggests that Pearl sell off a few of her animals to pay the debt. This angers Pearl who explains that her farm animals are family and that she would never sell them. She then chases the Sheriff off her property in a fury.

Pearl is later seen mourning over her three cows, who had gone AWOL to save her farm, and wonders if she'll ever see them again. Nevertheless, she is also upset about possibly losing Little Patch of Heaven to the highest bidder after a disguised Alameda Slim had closed the deal with the Sheriff. When Maggie, Mrs. Calloway and Grace eventually return to the farm, they manage to trap and expose Alameda Slim, and the outlaw is then arrested by Sam. The Sheriff later arrives with the reward money and asks Pearl if she can find any use for it, to which she happily pays the debt she owes the bank, thus saving her farm.

At the end of the film, Pearl dances with the Sheriff as they and all the farm animals (who are also seen dancing) celebrate Little Patch of Heaven being salvaged and re-opened.

Disney Parks
Pearl appeared at the "Little Patch of Heaven Petting Farm" (which was the "Big Thunder Ranch" area themed to Home on the Range) at Disneyland for meet and greets for promotion of the film. After the attraction closed in 2005, Pearl had vanished and has not made appearances at any of the Disney Parks since.

Trivia

 * In the original version of Home on the Range, Pearl was going to be a male farmer before the script changed.