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A calf is roped on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A calf is roped on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Peruvian sheepherder Pepe Cruz tends to the flock at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Peruvian sheepherder Pepe Cruz tends to the flock at the Ladder Livest...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A horse cools down after a hard day's work at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A horse cools down after a hard day's work at the Big Creek cattle ran...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Ranch buildings at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Ranch buildings at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming, they must be lassoed

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Cr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

An animal bone in the back country at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

An animal bone in the back country at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A newborn lamb gets a meal at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

A newborn lamb gets a meal at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is bas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyoming, aboard his horse, Drake, crosses the North Platte River on the ranch

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Horse barn at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Horse barn at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Horses head for the corral in the daily "jingle", or roundup of horses, at the A Bar A guest ranch near Riverside, Wyoming. One explanation for the term connects it to the clinking of spurs worn by the cowhands, the din of which, at full gallop, helps encourage the horses to get a move on

Horses head for the corral in the daily "jingle", or roundup of horses...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming, they must be lassoed

Before calves are branded and vaccinated on branding day at the Big Cr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

An animal bone in the back country at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

An animal bone in the back country at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Usually Benjy Duke, chief guide and staff recruiter at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming, has a guest or two in tow while he's fishing or hunting. But he has the stream to himself today

Usually Benjy Duke, chief guide and staff recruiter at the A Bar A gue...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Barns at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep on the Wyoming side and cattle mainly in Colorado

Barns at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based literally across the highwa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Riders on horseback at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Riders on horseback at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Uplifts near Dixon in southern Carbon County, Wyoming, near the Colorado border

Uplifts near Dixon in southern Carbon County, Wyoming, near the Colora...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Horseback riders at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Horseback riders at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado bo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The field is full of young ones, some a few days or even hours old

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ewe with her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Ewe with her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is base...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ranch manager Mark Dunning's mount has a temperamental moment at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Ranch manager Mark Dunning's mount has a temperamental moment at the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Dark clouds roil above Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Dark clouds roil above Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

View of the North Platte River on an autumn day at the A Bar A guest ranch, near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

View of the North Platte River on an autumn day at the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The North Platte cuts through three states: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, on its way to the main Platte River

View of the North Platte River as it winds through the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Clouds gather above the sagebrush at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Clouds gather above the sagebrush at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Cattle pen at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Cattle pen at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colora...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

It's early October, and, somewhat surprisingly, there's no snow as yet on the distant Snowy Range of the Rocky Mountains in Carbon County, Wyoming

It's early October, and, somewhat surprisingly, there's no snow as yet...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A ewe cleans her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

A ewe cleans her newborn lamb at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

It's spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. One heifer, a young female cow that had not previously produced a calf, is beginning the process of doing just that, delivering the amniotic sac or "bag of waters" protecting the fetus. She would immediately be surrounded by other cattle, who formed a protective ring around her (and hiding her from intrusive photography) during the rest of the birth

It's spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The field is full of young ones, some a few days or even hours old

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhand at work at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Cowhand at work at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A newborn lamb gets a meal at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

A newborn lamb gets a meal at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherdin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Spring is lambing (birthing) time at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. This ewe is giving birth. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Spring is lambing (birthing) time at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A ewe washes her newborn at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

A ewe washes her newborn at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowgirl Cricket Keetch on horseback at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Cowgirl Cricket Keetch on horseback at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Road to the cattle pasture at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Road to the cattle pasture at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near Riversi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Bridge over Big Creek at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Bridge over Big Creek at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Saddle pads are dry and ready for guests' use during horseback rides at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Saddle pads are dry and ready for guests' use during horseback rides a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Warming stall for newborn and other young calves that may be in trouble in the cold early days of Spring at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Warming stall for newborn and other young calves that may be in troubl...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhands of all ages pitch in on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The day that calves are captured, branded, and vaccinated is one of the longest and most complex on the spread

Cowhands of all ages pitch in on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Sheep and recently born lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

Sheep and recently born lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepher...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Horses head for the corral in the daily "jingle", or roundup of horses, at the A Bar A guest ranch near Riverside, Wyoming. One explanation for the term connects it to the clinking of spurs worn by the cowhands, the din of which, at full gallop, helps encourage the horses to get a move on

Horses head for the corral in the daily "jingle", or roundup of horses...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

View of Lake Marie in Wyoming's Snowy Range, between Saratoga and Laramie

View of Lake Marie in Wyoming's Snowy Range, between Saratoga and Lara...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprisingly for October, there's no sign of the substance that gives the range its name. Buried under many feet of snow each winter, ... More

Sign ("Wagon Wheel") for one of the cottages at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch near the Colorado border

Sign ("Wagon Wheel") for one of the cottages at Big Creek Ranch, a Car...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Saddle blankets dry beneath the corral's observation tower at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Saddle blankets dry beneath the corral's observation tower at the A Ba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A day the herd would dread if they could: the big cattle-transport trailers have arrived to take steers to market at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A day the herd would dread if they could: the big cattle-transport tra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Guest cabins at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Guest cabins at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

An open invitation to relax at the A Bar A guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

An open invitation to relax at the A Bar A guest ranch near the town o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Pepe Cruz, one of the Peruvian sheepherders at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation near Dixon, Wyoming, holds two recently born lambs. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

Pepe Cruz, one of the Peruvian sheepherders at the Ladder Livestock Ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

It appears, probably incorrectly, that ranch manager Mark Dunning is trying to reason with his horse at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

It appears, probably incorrectly, that ranch manager Mark Dunning is t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Jamie, the ranch manager's Llewellin setter, a breed of "field dogs" traced to England, at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Jamie, the ranch manager's Llewellin setter, a breed of "field dogs" t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of Riverside...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Riders on horseback at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Riders on horseback at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Horses graze in a pasture at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Horses graze in a pasture at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Freshly painted barns at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Freshly painted barns at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread jus...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A windmill and snowy mountain range in Carbon County, Wyoming, near the Colorado border

A windmill and snowy mountain range in Carbon County, Wyoming, near th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

This great horned owl lives, or at least visits often, right next to the ranch houses and barn at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

This great horned owl lives, or at least visits often, right next to t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A pause that refreshes for this cow at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. One can only imagine the use to which the giant tire that encircles the water trough was once put

A pause that refreshes for this cow at Big Creek cattle ranch on the C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Mailbox, wagon wheel, and the ranch brand, a set of rungs tipped on its side, at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and cattle mainly in Colorado

Mailbox, wagon wheel, and the ranch brand, a set of rungs tipped on it...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ewe with her newborn lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Ewe with her newborn lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is bas...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A rough Indian wickiup at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch near the Colorado border. Unlike larger, domed wickiups used as several people's shelters, this small assembly of branches was used for short-term stays by nomadic Indian tribes, hunting or hiding high in the hills away from adversaries

A rough Indian wickiup at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Fall scene at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch near the Colorado border

Fall scene at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Benjy Duke is not only a devoted angler, down to the point of meticulously tying his own flies. He is also the hunting guide and recruiter of collegiate talent for summertime employment at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Benjy Duke is not only a devoted angler, down to the point of meticulo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The field is full of young ones, some a few days or even hours old

It's Spring calving, or birthing, season at Big Creek cattle ranch on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Horse barn at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Horse barn at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Small cattle trucks at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Small cattle trucks at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Irrigation stream at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Irrigation stream at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, ne...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Saddle-up time for those going horseback riding at the A Bar A guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Saddle-up time for those going horseback riding at the A Bar A guest r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Roundup time nears on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Roundup time nears on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Carbon County, Wyoming, landscape

Carol M. Highsmith - Carbon County, Wyoming, landscape

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Chest-high boots called waders hang from the A Bar A ranch's fish shack, puckishly called the Liars' Lair, fishers are prone to exaggerating the size of fish caught, and especially those that got away, on the guest ranch near Riverside, Wyoming. They're upside down to drain the few whose previous users waded too deep, and to keep the rain out

Chest-high boots called waders hang from the A Bar A ranch's fish shac...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

The Castle Shoppe in the tiny town of Baggs, Wyoming, does not sell castles. Instead, it is an "odds and ends" shop according to one customer, who reports that it sells the "best smoothies in town," not that there is a lot of competition in a town of 350 people or so

The Castle Shoppe in the tiny town of Baggs, Wyoming, does not sell ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Break time on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Break time on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Cowboys, old and young alike, tend to branding calves on the Big Creek cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming

Cowboys, old and young alike, tend to branding calves on the Big Creek...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Array of branding irons at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. In fact, the ranch's cattle operation is mainly in Colorado

Array of branding irons at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, based literally...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Scene on the brushy fringes of the pastures at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Scene on the brushy fringes of the pastures at Big Creek cattle ranch ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A Peruvian sheepherder tends to the flock at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

A Peruvian sheepherder tends to the flock at the Ladder Livestock Ranc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhand Bob Souza administers antibiotics at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming, close to the Colorado border

Cowhand Bob Souza administers antibiotics at Big Creek Ranch, a vast c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A large, multifaceted piece of agricultural apparatus in action at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

A large, multifaceted piece of agricultural apparatus in action at Big...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

View of Lake Marie in Wyoming's Snowy Range, between Saratoga and Laramie

View of Lake Marie in Wyoming's Snowy Range, between Saratoga and Lara...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It's June, but there are still remnants of the substance that gives the range its name. Buried under many feet of snow each winter, th... More

Foothills of the Snowy Range of the Rocky Mountains, viewed from the A Bar A guest ranch just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Foothills of the Snowy Range of the Rocky Mountains, viewed from the A...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Outlying buildings at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Outlying buildings at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Guest cabin at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Guest cabin at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A rough Indian wickiup at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch near the Colorado border. Unlike larger, domed wickiups used as several people's shelters, this small assembly of branches was used for short-term stays by nomadic Indian tribes, hunting or hiding high in the hills away from adversaries

A rough Indian wickiup at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Autumn day at the A Bar A guest ranch, near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Autumn day at the A Bar A guest ranch, near the Colorado border in Car...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Eager young cowboy, in bronze, outside a cabin at the A Bar A guest ranch, just over the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Eager young cowboy, in bronze, outside a cabin at the A Bar A guest ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Perhaps the herd can sense it: It's branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Perhaps the herd can sense it: It's branding day at the Big Creek catt...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Workers gently move recently born lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

Workers gently move recently born lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Fishers try their luck on the North Platte River at the A Bar A Ranch,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cowhand Conor Dwyer, at work at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming, close to the Colorado border

Cowhand Conor Dwyer, at work at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyoming, aboard his horse, Drake, crosses the North Platte River on the ranch

Justin Howe, manager of the A Bar A guest ranch in south-central Wyomi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

The Round Room Building, the central gathering and entertainment spot at the A Bar A guest ranch, near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

The Round Room Building, the central gathering and entertainment spot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A clump of Spring wildflowers, and a small animal bone, at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

A clump of Spring wildflowers, and a small animal bone, at Big Creek c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A ewe washes her newborn at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

A ewe washes her newborn at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A ranch hand pours feed at the Big Creek cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming. Most cattle forage in pastures at the ranch but a few, destined to become food for the cowhands and ranch managers, are fattened up in the corral

A ranch hand pours feed at the Big Creek cattle ranch in Carbon County...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A wind (and snow) swept meadow and hill in Carbon County, near Baggs, Wyoming

A wind (and snow) swept meadow and hill in Carbon County, near Baggs, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Sheep at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Sheep at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Sheep pens at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally across the highway from Colorado in Carbon County, Wyoming. The ranch runs sheep in Wyoming and brands and tends to newborns at this facility near the tiny town of Dixon. The cattle operation is centered mainly across the state line in Colorado

Sheep pens at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, which is based literally acr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Corraled cattle at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming, close to the Colorado border

Corraled cattle at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

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