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Mitchell, Marsh & Ireton Ranch, Montour, Gem County, ID

Mitchell, Marsh & Ireton Ranch, Montour, Gem County, ID

See also HABS Nos. ID-35-A thru ID-35-C for related structures. Significance: The house and cellar are very early examples of Idaho architecture, only slightly modified in over a century of use. The large barn... More

6666 Ranch, Main House, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

6666 Ranch, Main House, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County,...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Samuel Burke Burnett wanted to build a house that was a representation of the Texas ranching legacy and he wanted the house to be as grand as the surrounding ... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

[Large herd of cattle on a western range, probably in Colorado or Utah, and four men on wagon in foreground] / F.M. Steele, special photographer, C.R.I. & P. Railway System.

[Large herd of cattle on a western range, probably in Colorado or Utah...

H56762 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical im... More

San Jacinto Ranch, Calving Barn, San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

San Jacinto Ranch, Calving Barn, San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-43-L Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cattle in South Farm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Cattle in South Farm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Cattle graze in field, mountains in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on negative sleeve. No original photographic print. Library made print in LOT 10479-4. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-19... More

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

Peek inside an old, now roofless, cabin at the Big Creek 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

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

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

XIT Ranch Headquarters, Fifth and West Railroad Avenue, Channing, Hartley County, TX

XIT Ranch Headquarters, Fifth and West Railroad Avenue, Channing, Hart...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: ...Between 1898-1899, the general offices for the XIT Ranch were constructed in Channing. The 2-room building was constructed from 5 railroad cars... More

XIT Ranch Headquarters, Fifth and West Railroad Avenue, Channing, Hartley County, TX

XIT Ranch Headquarters, Fifth and West Railroad Avenue, Channing, Hart...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: ...Between 1898-1899, the general offices for the XIT Ranch were constructed in Channing. The 2-room building was constructed from 5 railroad cars... More

Tassi Ranch, Tassi Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Tassi Ranch, Tassi Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Tassi Ranch sits on the western edge of the Arizona Strip, an isolated desert region in northern Arizona bounded by the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River to the south and east and the Utah and N... More

Samuel T. Brown's Sheep Ranch, 6 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Samuel T. Brown's Sheep Ranch, 6 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model...

Significance: The growth of the ranch illustrates the expansion of a small 19th century homestead to one of the largest stock raising operations in the Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. One structure, the... More

McGraw Ranch, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

McGraw Ranch, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

Significance: The McGraw Ranch is the only intact guest ranch within Rocky Mountain National Park. It reflects the evolution of cattle ranching in the Estes Park area as the industry progressed from large oper... More

6666 Ranch, Main House, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

6666 Ranch, Main House, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County,...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Samuel Burke Burnett wanted to build a house that was a representation of the Texas ranching legacy and he wanted the house to be as grand as the surrounding ... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

Conrad & Nellie Warren Residence, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell County, MT

Conrad & Nellie Warren Residence, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell Count...

Significance: The Warren Residence represents the continuance of the Grant-Kohrs ranching heritage from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Augusta Kohrs, widow of Conrad Kohrs, hired her grandson Conrad... More

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model...

Significance: It is an example of a homestead established by former cowboys after the turn of the century in Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The vernacular architecture of the site demonstrates the grow... More

Cowboy on horseback near Eagle Pass, Texas

Cowboy on horseback near Eagle Pass, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cattle in corrals on ranch, Beaverhead County, Mont

Cattle in corrals on ranch, Beaverhead County, Mont

Lot 12002-55. 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.... 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

Dawn in a corner of Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming

Dawn in a corner of 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

A calf snagged for branding at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, Wyoming, cattle ranch near the Colorado border

A calf snagged for branding at Big Creek Ranch, a Carbon County, 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

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

Writer, storyteller, and mustang rancher Alan Day relaxes on the porch during a visit to the historic Lazy B cattle ranch on the New Mexico border near Mooresville, Arizona (In fact, one reaches the ranch from a road in New Mexico.) There, he, his sister Sandra (who would become U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor), and their sister Ann grew up The ranch, now in other hands, has kept its iconic cattle brand, which gets its "lazy" name from the prone position of its letter

Writer, storyteller, and mustang rancher Alan Day relaxes on the porch...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Smith Farm, 399 Ebey Road, Coupeville, Island County, WA

Smith Farm, 399 Ebey Road, Coupeville, Island County, WA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1383 Survey number: HABS WA-249

Dinner Pocket, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Dinner Pocket, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Dinner Pocket is the southernmost in a series of line camps within Waring Ranch, a large cattle-grazing operation on a remote plateau north of the Grand Canyon in the Arizona Strip. J. D. Waring a... More

6666 Ranch, Barn, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

6666 Ranch, Barn, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1357 Survey number: HABS TX-3536-B

McGraw Ranch, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

McGraw Ranch, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

Significance: The McGraw Ranch is the only intact guest ranch within Rocky Mountain National Park. It reflects the evolution of cattle ranching in the Estes Park area as the industry progressed from large oper... More

6666 Ranch, Main House, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

6666 Ranch, Main House, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County,...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Samuel Burke Burnett wanted to build a house that was a representation of the Texas ranching legacy and he wanted the house to be as grand as the surrounding ... More

Pine Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Pine Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Pine Ranch is typical of the small, family-owned cattle operations that co-existed on the remote and isolated Arizona Strip from the last decades of the nineteenth century into the second half of ... More

Conrad & Nellie Warren Residence, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell County, MT

Conrad & Nellie Warren Residence, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell Count...

Significance: The Warren Residence represents the continuance of the Grant-Kohrs ranching heritage from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Augusta Kohrs, widow of Conrad Kohrs, hired her grandson Conrad... More

Waring Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Waring Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pinon Canyon, Purgatoire River Area, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Pinon Canyon, Purgatoire River Area, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Significance: The 7 historic homestead located within the Pinon Canyon area physically represent one of Colorado's last agricultural frontiers. Determined settlers built these homesteads following long-establis... More

Cattle range on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle

Cattle range on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

A full 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

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

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

XIT Ranch Headquarters, Fifth and West Railroad Avenue, Channing, Hartley County, TX

XIT Ranch Headquarters, Fifth and West Railroad Avenue, Channing, Hart...

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: ...Between 1898-1899, the general offices for the XIT Ranch were constructed in Channing. The 2-room building was constructed from 5 railroad cars... More

Horse Valley Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Horse Valley Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Horse Valley Ranch was the headquarters of Jonathan Deyo Waring's Home Ranch grazing allotment, now known as Waring Ranch, a large cattle operation in the Arizona Strip on the Shivwits Plateau nor... More

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big Hole River Bridge, Melrose, Silver Bow County, MT

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big...

Significance: The William and Lucina Bowe Ranch is significant for its important association with the historic development of the lower Big Hole Valley. It was one of the first ranches established during the r... More

6666 Ranch, Barn, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

6666 Ranch, Barn, 1102 Dash for Cash Road, Guthrie, King County, TX

2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1357 Survey number: HABS TX-3536-B

Pine Valley, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Pine Valley, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Pine Valley is one of seven line camps used by Jonathan Deyo Waring and his ranch hands to manage the Home Ranch grazing allotment, now known as Waring Ranch, a large cattle-grazing operation on a... More

Mitchell, Marsh & Ireton Ranch, Montour, Gem County, ID

Mitchell, Marsh & Ireton Ranch, Montour, Gem County, ID

See also HABS Nos. ID-35-A thru ID-35-C for related structures. Significance: The house and cellar are very early examples of Idaho architecture, only slightly modified in over a century of use. The large barn... More

Eugene Rourke Ranch, 19 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Eugene Rourke Ranch, 19 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Ani...

Significance: Founded at the turn of the century by an immigrant from Ireland, expanded to become one of the most prosperous in the history of the Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The ranch reflects seve... More

Eugene Rourke Ranch, 19 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Eugene Rourke Ranch, 19 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Ani...

Significance: Founded at the turn of the century by an immigrant from Ireland, expanded to become one of the most prosperous in the history of the Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The ranch reflects seve... More

Margarita Martinez Homestead, Lindrith, Rio Arriba County, NM

Margarita Martinez Homestead, Lindrith, Rio Arriba County, NM

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries a Hispanic community that became known as Haynes flourished in Upper Largo Canyon. John Roger... More

Adam & Bessie Arnet Homestead, 20 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Adam & Bessie Arnet Homestead, 20 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Mode...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ancient city, historic place, stone buildings architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cattle in south farm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Cattle in south farm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photogr...

Cattle graze in a field, a man stands in center of field, mountains in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-29-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 196... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model...

Significance: It is an example of a homestead established by former cowboys after the turn of the century in Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The vernacular architecture of the site demonstrates the grow... More

A strenuous job on the Cuban ranch / J.S. Pughe.

A strenuous job on the Cuban ranch / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt as a cowboy, on horseback, and Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, on foot, driving cattle labeled "High Protectionist, Senatorial Pledge Breaker, [and] Beet Sug... More

Day herds, XIT outfit, Texas

Day herds, XIT outfit, Texas

Photograph shows three cowboys from the XIT ranch in the Texas panhandle with their horses. A herd of cattle in is in the background. Copyrighted 1904 by by C.A. Kendrick. No. 22

JA Ranch, packing bedding, Texas

JA Ranch, packing bedding, Texas

Photograph shows cowboys from the JA Ranch in the Texas panhandle packing their bedding while out on the range Copyrighted 1904 by C.A. Kendrick, Denver. No. 14.

Two of a kind, Texas - A couple of men riding on the backs of horses

Two of a kind, Texas - A couple of men riding on the backs of horses

Photograph shows two men on bucking horses. Copyright 1904 by C.A. Kendrick, Denver. No. 23.

Middle Stacks (San Jacinto), San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

Middle Stacks (San Jacinto), San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-45 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Herd of cattle at feeding trough near Crystal City, Texas

Herd of cattle at feeding trough near Crystal City, Texas

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

Horse Valley Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Horse Valley Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Horse Valley Ranch was the headquarters of Jonathan Deyo Waring's Home Ranch grazing allotment, now known as Waring Ranch, a large cattle operation in the Arizona Strip on the Shivwits Plateau nor... More

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big Hole River Bridge, Melrose, Silver Bow County, MT

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big...

Significance: The William and Lucina Bowe Ranch is significant for its important association with the historic development of the lower Big Hole Valley. It was one of the first ranches established during the r... More

Cattle in south farm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Cattle in south farm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photogr...

Cattle graze in a field, a man stands in center of field, mountains in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-29-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 196... More

J A Ranch Headquarters, Paloduro, Armstrong County, TX

J A Ranch Headquarters, Paloduro, Armstrong County, TX

2007 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: The JA Ranch is the oldest, continuously operated ranch in the Texas Panhandle. From its founding in 1876 by Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), the ranch ... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

Conrad & Nellie Warren Residence, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell County, MT

Conrad & Nellie Warren Residence, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell Count...

Significance: The Warren Residence represents the continuance of the Grant-Kohrs ranching heritage from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Augusta Kohrs, widow of Conrad Kohrs, hired her grandson Conrad... More

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model...

Significance: It is an example of a homestead established by former cowboys after the turn of the century in Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The vernacular architecture of the site demonstrates the grow... More

Nine Quarter Circle Ranch, Eldridge, Montana

Nine Quarter Circle Ranch, Eldridge, Montana

Large herd of cattle. Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boar's Nest Ranch (San Jacinto), Boxcar Bunkhouse, San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

Boar's Nest Ranch (San Jacinto), Boxcar Bunkhouse, San Jacinto, Elko C...

Survey number: HABS NV-44-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cowboy on horseback near Eagle Pass, Texas

Cowboy on horseback near Eagle Pass, Texas

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... 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 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

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

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

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

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big Hole River Bridge, Melrose, Silver Bow County, MT

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big...

Significance: The William and Lucina Bowe Ranch is significant for its important association with the historic development of the lower Big Hole Valley. It was one of the first ranches established during the r... More

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big Hole River Bridge, Melrose, Silver Bow County, MT

William & Lucina Bowe Ranch, County Road 44, 0.1 mile northeast of Big...

Significance: The William and Lucina Bowe Ranch is significant for its important association with the historic development of the lower Big Hole Valley. It was one of the first ranches established during the r... More

Pine Valley, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Pine Valley, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Pine Valley is one of seven line camps used by Jonathan Deyo Waring and his ranch hands to manage the Home Ranch grazing allotment, now known as Waring Ranch, a large cattle-grazing operation on a... More

Tassi Ranch, Tassi Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Tassi Ranch, Tassi Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Tassi Ranch sits on the western edge of the Arizona Strip, an isolated desert region in northern Arizona bounded by the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River to the south and east and the Utah and N... More

Eugene Rourke Ranch, 19 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Eugene Rourke Ranch, 19 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Ani...

Significance: Founded at the turn of the century by an immigrant from Ireland, expanded to become one of the most prosperous in the history of the Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The ranch reflects seve... More

Adam & Bessie Arnet Homestead, 20 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Adam & Bessie Arnet Homestead, 20 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Mode...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel T. Brown's Sheep Ranch, 6 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

Samuel T. Brown's Sheep Ranch, 6 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model...

Significance: The growth of the ranch illustrates the expansion of a small 19th century homestead to one of the largest stock raising operations in the Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. One structure, the... More

McGraw Ranch, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

McGraw Ranch, McGraw Ranch Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

Significance: The McGraw Ranch is the only intact guest ranch within Rocky Mountain National Park. It reflects the evolution of cattle ranching in the Estes Park area as the industry progressed from large oper... More

Pine Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Pine Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Pine Ranch is typical of the small, family-owned cattle operations that co-existed on the remote and isolated Arizona Strip from the last decades of the nineteenth century into the second half of ... More

Pine Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Pine Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Pine Ranch is typical of the small, family-owned cattle operations that co-existed on the remote and isolated Arizona Strip from the last decades of the nineteenth century into the second half of ... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

Charles Goodnight Ranch House, Goodnight, Armstrong County, TX

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Goodnight established the first Texas Panhandle ranch in 1876, which today is known as the JA Ranch. He lived at the JA with his wife Mary from 18... More

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model, Las Animas County, CO

John Sanders Cross Homestead, 11 miles east of U.S. Highway 350, Model...

Significance: It is an example of a homestead established by former cowboys after the turn of the century in Pinon Canyon area of Las Animas County. The vernacular architecture of the site demonstrates the grow... More

Rancho Grande , Saddle Horse Barn, Elko, Elko County, NV

Rancho Grande , Saddle Horse Barn, Elko, Elko County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-48-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Jacinto Ranch, Work Horse Barn, San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

San Jacinto Ranch, Work Horse Barn, San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-43-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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