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Plate 21
Resting at the Water Trough
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As cowboys love to hear a good story, they look forward to meetings at the campfire,
the bunkhouse, the cookhouse, or even the stock trough to trade information on cattle
and to exchange ranch gossip.
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Plate 22
High Noon
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Mexican cowboys, also known as vaqueros, take exceptional pride in their cowboying
skills. Their ancestors were the first caballeros on the North American continent,
and set the high standards of horsemanship that are practiced by today's buckaroos.
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Plate 23
Branding
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Once a calf has been caught and thrown, three or four cowboys perform a quick, wordless ritual that takes less than two minutes: immunization, castration, branding, worming, and ear-tagging.
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Plate 24
To Be a Cowboy
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Often earning less than $800 a month and working long hours, a cowboy is underpaid
and overworked. Still, men are drawn to the irresistible lure of a free life on
the range where true challenges are as abundant as space, and a sense of adventure
prevails.
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Plate 25
Herding Longhorns
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Jimbo Calhoun is riding through a herd of longhorns, a lean breed of cattle originally
from Texas. Famous for their nasty temper, intelligence, and endurance, longhorns
were almost driven to extinction. Today, they are making a comeback on ranch lands.
Herding longhorns, the living symbols of a bygone time, is a challenge and an honor.
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Plate 26
The Road Home
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The cowboys have been riding together since early morning, checking cattle and doctoring
calves. When they finally remove their hats at cowcamp, their faces are dark and
sunburned, their foreheads a surprising white.
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Plate 27
At the Top
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Holistic management practices were implemented on the Breteche Creek Ranch in 1992.
This included reintroducing beaver to the ranch to help restore riparian areas and
placing a high number of cattle in grazing allotments for short periods of time
to improve the growth cycle of the grass.
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Plate 28
Mesa
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In the distance rise the Wapiti Mountains. The word wapiti is Native American for
"elk."
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Plate 29
Homestead
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The federal Act of 1862 encouraged thousands of Americans to move out West. For
a ten-dollar filing fee a homesteader could claim 160 acres of public land in exchange
for agreeing to live on the homesite for a minimum of five years.
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Plate 30
View From J Bar 9
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Some ranches are blessed with majestic peaks that shelter them against wind, and creeks that feed pastures and cottonwood trees. The natural beauty of these lands has not been touched, the wilderness within never tamed.
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