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

Pasture fence at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above ...

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

Dirt path through corral fencing at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Dirt path through corral fencing at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colo...

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 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

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

Massive entrance gate 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

Distant view of the sprawling Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Distant view of the sprawling Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of...

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 worker pours cattle feed at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

A worker pours cattle feed at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch nea...

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

Evidence of a rainy spring at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The rain is welcome in this generally dry, windy part of America

Evidence of a rainy spring at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado b...

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

This horse is back in the corral after a romp in the snow at the Midland Ranch, a cattle and sheepraising spread in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, in the shadow of the Snowy Range of the Rocky Mountains

This horse is back in the corral after a romp in the snow at the Midla...

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

Two cattle get special feed at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Two cattle get special feed at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The principal barn and an auxilliary building at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

The principal barn and an auxilliary building at the Hadley SY 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

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

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

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

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 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

The herd has been corralled on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

The herd has been corralled on branding day at the Big Creek cattle 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

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Savery, Wyoming. The ranch operates in both states, running sheep in Wyoming and cattle in Colorado. Squaw Mountain, a local landmark, dominates the landscape in the latter state

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Saver...

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

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

Tater, the ranch manager's frisky, terrier at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Tater, the ranch manager's frisky, terrier at Big Creek cattle ranch o...

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

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the 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

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

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

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

Cowhand Jarrod Edwards's horse Amarillo cools off 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

Cowhand Jarrod Edwards's horse Amarillo cools off after a hard day's w...

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

Pathway through the corral to the horse barn at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming, close to the Colorado border

Pathway through the corral to the horse barn at Big Creek Ranch, a vas...

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

The humble Pelican Club Cabin at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming

The humble Pelican Club Cabin at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First photographed in 1919, the building was originally built and used by the U.S. Forest Service, likely as an out station where rang... More

Ferol Shelton is pictured aboard his horse, Sleepy, at his ranch homestead near Clarendon in the Texas Panhandle

Ferol Shelton is pictured aboard his horse, Sleepy, at his ranch homes...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Shelton's wife, Annie Young Shelton, is the managing partner of the nearby, historic RO (pronounced "Rowe") ranch. It is named for th... More

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

Birch woods at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Color...

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

Corner of an old, now roofless, cabin at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Corner of an old, now roofless, cabin at the Big Creek cattle ranch, 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

The setting sun nearly silhouettes two horses at Big Creek Ranch, a large cattle ranch near the Colorado border in central Wyoming

The setting sun nearly silhouettes two horses at Big Creek Ranch, a la...

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

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

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

Work horses 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

Large horse barn at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Large horse barn at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colo...

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

Distant view of Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Distant view of Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, 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

Tater, the ranch manager's frisky, terrier at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

Tater, the ranch manager's frisky, terrier at Big Creek cattle ranch o...

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

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

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

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

The ranch's working horses get a bite to eat at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming

The ranch's working horses get a bite to eat 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

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

Irrigation dam and stream at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado bo...

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

The ranch manager's daughter, Maddy Dunning, and her dog, Jamie, are growing up together at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

The ranch manager's daughter, Maddy Dunning, and her dog, Jamie, are g...

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

Wind sock at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming, where there is often plenty of wind to capture

Wind sock at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the 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

Inside the Pelican Club Cabin at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming

Inside the Pelican Club Cabin at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First photographed in 1919, the building was originally built and used by the U.S. Forest Service, likely as an out station where rang... More

Distant view of the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Distant view of 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

Barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

Barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming...

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

Dirt road leading to the Big Creek Ranch, a large cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Dirt road leading to the Big Creek Ranch, a large cattle ranch 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

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

Antibiotics in the immunization barn 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

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

Snowshoes on a wall of the Pelican Club Lodge, high above Big Creek Ranch, a working cattle ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. The Pelican Club, the origin of whose name; unusual in a state that has few of the primarily coastal fishing birds; has been lost in time, was the mesatop domain of one of the ranch's previous owners and his friends

Snowshoes on a wall of the Pelican Club Lodge, high above Big Creek Ra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Big Creek Ranch is one of three under the same ownership. The others are the A Bar, a guest ranch just down the road toward Encamp... More

The stream that gives the name to the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment in Carbon County, Wyoming. Big Creek is a tributary of the North Platte River

The stream that gives the name to the 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

Distant view of the sprawling Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Distant view of the sprawling Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of...

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

Cattle whose days are shorter than others at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the towns of Riverside and Encampment, in Carbon County, Wyoming. They will become meat for the ranch hands and family members

Cattle whose days are shorter than others 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

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

Dramatic clouds above the Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado borde...

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

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

Feeding time outside the horse barn 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

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 cowhand lassoes calves on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A cowhand lassoes calves on branding day at the 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

Visual documentarian Carol M. Highsmith makes like a cowgirl in a stall next to the horse Amarillo's at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Visual documentarian Carol M. Highsmith makes like a cowgirl in a stal...

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

Guest house sign at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, nea...

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 at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Savery, Wyoming. The ranch operates in both states, running sheep in Wyoming and cattle in Colorado. Squaw Mountain, a local landmark, dominates the landscape across the road in the latter state

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Saver...

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

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

Cowhand Sam Marchetti rides the range at the Big Creek cattle ranch, 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

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Savery, Wyoming. The ranch operates in both states, running sheep in Wyoming and cattle in Colorado. Squaw Mountain, a local landmark, dominates the landscape across the road in the latter state

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Saver...

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 manager Mark Dunning strides the property in the company of the ever-present ranch mascot, Tater, at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Ranch manager Mark Dunning strides the property in the company of the ...

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

A cow skull in the back country at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Color...

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

One of several barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

One of several barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook ...

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 and barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

Horse and barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook Count...

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

A cowhand shuts the cattle pen gate at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a l...

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

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

Barn details 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

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

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

The vast landscape at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, n...

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

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

The vast landscape at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, n...

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

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

Dirt path at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the 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

Horses are unloaded for a full day's work on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Horses are unloaded for a full day's work on branding day at the Big 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

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, 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

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Savery, Wyoming. The ranch operates in both states, running sheep in Wyoming and cattle across the road in Colorado

Scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, on the Colorado border near Saver...

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

Break time 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

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

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

Pathway through the corral at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in ...

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, and the ever-present ranch mascot, Tater, tend to business at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Ranch manager Mark Dunning, and the ever-present ranch mascot, Tater, ...

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

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

A cattle farm, vicinity of Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

A cattle farm, vicinity of Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

11671-26. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Sorting of cattle at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch near the Colorado border

Sorting of cattle at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, 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

Dirt road leading to the Big Creek Ranch, a large cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Dirt road leading to the Big Creek Ranch, a large cattle ranch near th...

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

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