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It's cowboy hats and beads for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, for Cheryl Pittman, David Cross, and Marcia Cross outside the 11th Street Bar in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's cowboy hats and beads for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, for Ch...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The husband-and-wife, cowboy-cowgirl team of Lars Hollis and Lacey Elick Hollis at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

The husband-and-wife, cowboy-cowgirl team of Lars Hollis and Lacey Eli...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Apt silhouette (for Texas) near the University of Texas at Austin campus

Apt silhouette (for Texas) near the University of Texas at Austin camp...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Stella Tedesg and James M. McGroarty, the Queen and King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, outside the 11th Street Cowboy Bar in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Stella Tedesg and James M. McGroarty, the Queen and King of Mardi Gras...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Cowhand E.B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand E.B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesom...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Neon sign of the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Neon sign of the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bar dates to the early 20th Century, when Joe Ruby erected Ruby's Cafe and Beer Garden on the site. In 1937, Ben Goe purchased the... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Cowhand Craig Bauer aboard his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer aboard his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lon...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Fancy cowboy buckles for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Fancy cowboy buckles for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was announced as the final tour performance of his long career

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The concert was held at the AT&T Center, home to the Dallas Cowboys' National Football League team, which Strait had opened with anot... More

Michelle Cannon, right, owns and runs the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch near Venus, Texas. Her riding companion is Wade Meador, a horse trainer based in Marietta, Oklahoma, trains the Cannon Ranch's horses for various kinds of shows and performances

Michelle Cannon, right, owns and runs the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

An expert cowboy snake-handler holds (at a distance) an unhappy, 20-pound specimen at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

An expert cowboy snake-handler holds (at a distance) an unhappy, 20-po...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... 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

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

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

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Chad Ferguson readies his lasso for calf-branding day, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle . . . in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Chad Ferguson readies his lasso for cal...

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

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, were Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the big parade

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Stella Tedesg and James M. McGroarty, the Queen and King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, outside the 11th Street Cowboy Bar in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Stella Tedesg and James M. McGroarty, the Queen and King of Mardi Gras...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, a wedding, A cowboy-themed cake by Charlotte Harris, followed the big parade

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Ban...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Wade Meador, a horse trainer based in Marietta, Oklahoma, trains horses at the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch near Venus, Texas

Wade Meador, a horse trainer based in Marietta, Oklahoma, trains horse...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his horse Rebelito at the working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his hors...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Dr. Ronald S. Tykoski (mustachioed man in the cowboy hat), a "fossil preparator" at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas, leads an archaeological dig on the site of the discovery of a Columbian mammoth near Italy, Texas

Dr. Ronald S. Tykoski (mustachioed man in the cowboy hat), a "fossil p...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

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 - Texas wranglers converse

Carol M. Highsmith - Texas wranglers converse

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

It's not exactly the French Quarter, but people still line the streets, awaiting the big Mardi Gras parade, Texas style, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's not exactly the French Quarter, but people still line the streets...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was announced as the final tour performance of his long career

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The concert was held at the AT&T Center, home to the Dallas Cowboys' National Football League team, which Strait had opened with anot... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, were Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the big parade

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his horse Rebelito at the working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his hors...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Mural in Sheridan, Wyoming, showing a subject often depicted in the Cowboy State, including on its license plates, of a cowboy aboard a bucking bronco

Mural in Sheridan, Wyoming, showing a subject often depicted in the Co...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers F... 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

Scene from the annual Junior Parada rodeo, in which young cowboys and cowgirls compete

Scene from the annual Junior Parada rodeo, in which young cowboys and ...

"Parada" in this context does not mean "parade," as one might think. Used by many rodeo events around the country, it uses the Spanish word for "stop" to refer to early rodeos in which cowhands literally stoppe... More

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, that city's annual rodeo, stock show, performance event, and carnival. Austin, Texas

Bronc riding at Rodeo Austin, that city's annual rodeo, stock show, pe...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Flag-bearers in cowboy hats whip up enthusiasm in the crowd with a brisk run with flags displaying the Dallas Cowboys' lone-star emblem at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

Flag-bearers in cowboy hats whip up enthusiasm in the crowd with a bri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

James M. McGroarty, the King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

James M. McGroarty, the King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in li...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the annual Mardi Gras parade with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the annual Mardi Gras parade wi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was announced as the final tour performance of his long career

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The concert was held at the AT&T Center, home to the Dallas Cowboys' National Football League team, which Strait had opened with anot... More

Charro, or Mexican cowboy, Jesus Casellas, pauses between performances at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National Western Stock Show festivities in Denver, Colorado

Charro, or Mexican cowboy, Jesus Casellas, pauses between performances...

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

Cowboy at the funky Cadillac Ranch, U.S. Route 66, Amarillo, Texas

Cowboy at the funky Cadillac Ranch, U.S. Route 66, Amarillo, Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Cowhand E. B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand E. B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Loneso...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Statue of Tex Ritter, an early "singing cowboy," outside the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum in Carthage, Texas

Statue of Tex Ritter, an early "singing cowboy," outside the Texas Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A native of surrounding Panola County, Ritter was one of the first singers inducted into the hall of fame when it was established in ... More

Melissa Lauppe carries the U.S. flag aboard Tex, and her daughter, Jessi the Texas flag aboard Ironhead, in the annual Mardi Gras parade with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Melissa Lauppe carries the U.S. flag aboard Tex, and her daughter, Jes...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his horse Rebelito at the working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, atop his hors...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

"Big Tex," a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, photographed in 2012, approximately one month before he was destroyed in a fire following an apparent electrical short-circuit in the mechanism that enabled the icon's mouth to move. Dallas, Texas

"Big Tex," a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcome...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tex's voice was created by a live human, observing from a nearby trailer. Big Tex began as a Santa Claus the world's ... More

Cowhand E.B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand E.B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesom...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Cowboy Craig Bauer at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowboy Craig Bauer at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working ca...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

It's Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, including Sandy Matte in a chicken costume and Michael Fontenot in combo Mardi Gras and camouflage gear in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, including Sandy Matte in a chick...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lo...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

James M. McGroarty, the King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

James M. McGroarty, the King of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in li...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Everybody, and we mean everybody, dresses up for Mardi Gras, Texas style, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Everybody, and we mean everybody, dresses up for Mardi Gras, Texas sty...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

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

Metal-art cowboy in a park, Ritzville, Washington

Metal-art cowboy in a park, Ritzville, Washington

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

"Big Tex," a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, photographed in 2012, approximately one month before he was destroyed in a fire following an apparent electrical short-circuit in the mechanism that enabled the icon's mouth to move. Dallas, Texas

"Big Tex," a 52-foot-tall, metal-and-fabric talking cowboy who welcome...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tex's voice was created by a live human, observing from a nearby trailer. Big Tex began as a Santa Claus the world's ... More

Cowhand Lars Hollis atop his horse, Catote, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis atop his horse, Catote, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Rowdy, an ever-smiling buckaroo, has been the official mascot of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League since 1996

Rowdy, an ever-smiling buckaroo, has been the official mascot of the D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A gumbo cook-off and plenty of costumes, including Sandy Matte in her chicken outfit, are a standard part of Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

A gumbo cook-off and plenty of costumes, including Sandy Matte in her ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Miss Snake Charmer," Hannah Smith, a cowboy snake-handler Terry "Hollywood" Armstrong, hoist a hefty specimen at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

"Miss Snake Charmer," Hannah Smith, a cowboy snake-handler Terry "Holl...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More

The husband-and-wife, cowboy-cowgirl team of Lars Hollis and Lacey Elick Hollis at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

The husband-and-wife, cowboy-cowgirl team of Lars Hollis and Lacey Eli...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Window of the Space Cowboy Smoke Shop, which calls itself "the highest head shop in the world," in Breckenridge, Colorado

Window of the Space Cowboy Smoke Shop, which calls itself "the highest...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis, tobacco, and "New Age" herbs. This one ... More

A charro, or Mexican cowboy, performs at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National Western Stock Show festivities in Denver, Colorado

A charro, or Mexican cowboy, performs at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganz...

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

The Rodeo Boot Company's Richard Reinert steams and blocks hats, both those for sale and those that attendees bring to be steamed, at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado

The Rodeo Boot Company's Richard Reinert steams and blocks hats, both ...

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

Cowboy scene, Wall Drug, Wall, South Dakota

Cowboy scene, Wall Drug, Wall, South Dakota

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Miss Snake Charmer," Hannah Smith, a cowboy snake-handler Terry "Hollywood" Armstrong, hoist a hefty specimen at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

"Miss Snake Charmer," Hannah Smith, a cowboy snake-handler Terry "Holl...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More

A cigar-store Indian and a plethora of beads meet for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

A cigar-store Indian and a plethora of beads meet for Mardi Gras, a Co...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Flag-bearers in cowboy hats whip up enthusiasm in the crowd with a brisk run with flags displaying the Dallas Cowboys' lone-star emblem at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

Flag-bearers in cowboy hats whip up enthusiasm in the crowd with a bri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, amid the longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, amid the longhorn herd...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Fancy cowboy boots for sale at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Barrel racing at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Barrel racing at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo....

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old-timey cook up the road from the "Cowboy Mardi Gras" in little Bandera, Texas, west of San Antonio

Old-timey cook up the road from the "Cowboy Mardi Gras" in little Band...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Chad Ferguson, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle . . . in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Chad Ferguson, at work rounding up calv...

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

Scene from the annual Junior Parada rodeo, in which young cowboys and cowgirls compete

Scene from the annual Junior Parada rodeo, in which young cowboys and ...

"Parada" in this context does not mean "parade," as one might think. Used by many rodeo events around the country, it uses the Spanish word for "stop" to refer to early rodeos in which cowhands literally stoppe... More

Cowhands wrestle a longhorn calf to the ground on branding day at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands wrestle a longhorn calf to the ground on branding day at the ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lone...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

It's Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, with a Texas touch in little Ban...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Cowboy Lars Hollis, atop his horse Catote, among longhorn steers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowboy Lars Hollis, atop his horse Catote, among longhorn steers at th...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

Rowdy, an ever-smiling buckaroo, has been the official mascot of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League since 1996

Rowdy, an ever-smiling buckaroo, has been the official mascot of the D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lo...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas. A wedding, with all of the attendant decorations and food, followed the big parade

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Ban...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

"Fanning a Twister," by Peter Fillerup; one of several cowboy-themed statues on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie. Wyoming's nickname is The Cowboy State, and the university's male athletic teams are called the Cowboys

"Fanning a Twister," by Peter Fillerup; one of several cowboy-themed s...

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

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Mardi Gras has a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Cowhand Craig Bauer aboard his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer aboard his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lon...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, a wedding, with all of the attendant decorations and food, followed the big parade

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Ban...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Flag-bearers in cowboy hats whip up enthusiasm in the crowd with a brisk run with flags displaying the Dallas Cowboys' lone-star emblem at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

Flag-bearers in cowboy hats whip up enthusiasm in the crowd with a bri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The ranch, originally settled in 1823 by one of the "Old 300" Texas pioneers who received land grants from Stephen F. Austin, is home... More

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas, a wedding, with a cake and attendant decorations by Charlotte Harris, followed the big parade

This particular year at Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Ban...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the annual Mardi Gras parade with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Jessi Lauppe carries the Texas flag in the annual Mardi Gras parade wi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Pistol Pete the costumed mascot and a scantily clad friend prepare for a University of Wyoming Cowboys' football home game in Laramie

Pistol Pete the costumed mascot and a scantily clad friend prepare for...

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 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

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