Pearl Gesner

"I don't know what's worse, losin' my farm to the highest bidder, or knowin' that my girls are lost and alone out there."

- Pearl worrying about her missing cows and her farm that's soon to be going into auction. Pearl Gesner is the owner of the dairy farm Patch of Heaven and supporting character in Disney's ''Home on the Range. ''She is voiced by Carole Cook.

Role
Pearl is an elderly farmer who owns a dairy farm called Little Patch of Heaven. Like any farmer, she tends to her farm and livestock. 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 previous owner and whom Pearl took in. It is revealed that she keeps a few photos of her farm animals as fond memories, including one of her bottle-feeding Grace when she was a calf and playing with Mrs. Calloway.

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 will ever see them again. Nevertheless, she is also upset about losing Little Patch of Heaven to the highest bidder, as she had no choice but to auction her remaining farm animals after a disguised Alameda Slim had closed the deal with the Sheriff.

When Maggie, Grace and Mrs. Calloway eventually return to the farm, they manage to trap and expose Slim's true identity. Pearl becomes shocked and terrified that the man who is buying her farm is 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 states that her farm is saved and pays the debt she owes bank.

At the film's end 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.