"I think it’s real important to get a real-life glimpse that shows them people are still living in the country, raising cattle, moving cattle, and that their hamburger doesn’t originate in the back of the grocery store."
Every January, thousands of people flock to Downtown Denver to watch cowboys drive a herd of longhorn steers up 17th Street as the kickoff to the annual National Western Stock Show. But it's not the only livestock parade in the U.S. Fine more cattle and sheep in places like Cheyenne, Wyoming, Billings, Montana, Ketchum, Idaho, and Reno, Nevadsa.
(MONUMENT, Colo.) Just a couple miles from Monument, there is a little piece of the Wild West filled with cattle and an original homestead. “We’ve been here for well, I’ve been in Colorado for 50 some years, although my family is from Pueblo and Cripple Creek, and we’ve been ranching here since mid-eighties,” said […]
Stan Searle sketched a portrait of himself 63 years ago. There he is on horseback over rugged terrain, reins in hand, clouds building behind him, eyes on the horizon.