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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

Robert John Burck, better known as the almost Naked Cowboy street performer, is a regular at Times Square in the New York City borough of Manhattan

Robert John Burck, better known as the almost Naked Cowboy street perf...

There actually is a Naked Cowboy variety of oysters of the sort Mr. Burck touts on his guitar. They're wild oysters harvested from Long Island Sound by the Blue Island Oyster Company. Title, date and keywords b... More

Statues of Jesus, some say this is an unidentified angel, are not unusual in American cemeteries. Nor are monuments like this one at the grave of small-town businessmen. What makes the statue at this final resting place of Willet Babcock in Paris's Evergreen Cemetery unusual and uniquely "Texas" are the cowboy boots that the robed figure depicted is wearing

Statues of Jesus, some say this is an unidentified angel, are not unus...

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 Joe" the pony mascot, his handlers, and a costumed mascot named "Pistol Pete" prepare for at a University of Wyoming Cowboys' football home game in Laramie

"Cowboy Joe" the pony mascot, his handlers, and a costumed mascot name...

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

Mounted cowboy Elisha Robertson at the White Mountain Trading Post, a western-themed living-history museum in Fort Garland, in south-central Colorado's San Luis Valley

Mounted cowboy Elisha Robertson at the White Mountain Trading Post, a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The nearby fort, which the town is named, still exists, was once commanded by legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Credit line: Gates Fr... More

Cowhand Robert Vaughn, atop his horse, Dunnie, 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 Robert Vaughn, atop his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lones...

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

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

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

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

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

Rambunctious neon beer sign inside the Springs Downtown Bar and Grill, which turned a 1904 building and town gathering place in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, into a restaurant and tavern in 1974

Rambunctious neon beer sign inside the Springs Downtown Bar and Grill,...

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

Cowboy figure, in a fedora for some reason, at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Cowboy figure, in a fedora for some reason, at the Enchanted Springs R...

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 advertising figure in downtown El Paso, Texas

Cowboy advertising figure in downtown El Paso, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A beer-drinking, guitar-playing "Muffler Man" cowboy at the Copperhead Road Bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado

A beer-drinking, guitar-playing "Muffler Man" cowboy at the Copperhead...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This oversized cowpoke has nothing directly to do with automobile mufflers, but the roadside attraction is inspired by a series of lar... 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

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

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

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

Ornamental cowboy boot outside the original Salt Lick BBQ, a barbecue restaurant in Dripping Springs, in Hays County, Texas, south of Austin

Ornamental cowboy boot outside the original Salt Lick BBQ, a barbecue ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Chris Navarro's "Wyoming Cowboy" statue at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. The school's athletic nickname is "Cowboys" ("Cowgirls" in the case of women's teams)

Chris Navarro's "Wyoming Cowboy" statue at the University of Wyoming 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

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

Longhorn that accompanies Old-timey cook up the road from the "Cowboy ...

Title devised by Library staff 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 ... More

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the old U.S. Highway 66 wound through town

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the ol...

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 and fencebuilder Cam Keeler is the parent of two youngsters participating in a 4-H Club "tour" event in Kim, a ranching town with that is a notable success story in a lightly populated section of Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado homes

Cowhand and fencebuilder Cam Keeler is the parent of two youngsters pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. By the early 2000s, Kim was, in the words of one resident, "about dried up and blowed away." But then a group of residents and area ra... 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

Howdy the cowboy mascot smiles outside Denver, Colorado's Union Station prior to the kickoff parade of the National Western Stock Show, a weeks-long livestock show and series of rodeos

Howdy the cowboy mascot smiles outside Denver, Colorado's Union Statio...

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

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. Hollis's horse is named Catote; Elick's is Rebelito

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right and John Elick, owner of 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

Twelve-year-old charro, or Mexican cowboy, Nicolas Diaz performs at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National Western Stock Show festivities in Denver, Colorado

Twelve-year-old charro, or Mexican cowboy, Nicolas Diaz performs at th...

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

Even windmills get a touch of Texas in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio

Even windmills get a touch of Texas in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Cap...

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 Ea'mon O'Toole, 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 Ea'mon O'Toole, at work rounding up 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

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

In Denver, Colorado, Chuck Griffith of Clayton, Kansas, is one of the most striking cowboys and livestock owners at the National Western Stock Show, which includes one of the largest horse shows and one of the largest indoor rodeos in the world

In Denver, Colorado, Chuck Griffith of Clayton, Kansas, is one of the ...

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

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

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

The Rodeo Boot Company's Arthur Antonines 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 Arthur Antonines 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

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

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...

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

Carved cowboy outside Doc Holliday's Saloon in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Carved cowboy outside Doc Holliday's Saloon in Glenwood Springs, Color...

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

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

Charro, or Mexican cowboy, Jesus Casellas, doffs his sombrero between ...

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

In Denver, Colorado, Chuck Griffith of Clayton, Kansas, is one of the most striking cowboys and livestock owners at the National Western Stock Show, which includes one of the largest horse shows and one of the largest indoor rodeos in the world

In Denver, Colorado, Chuck Griffith of Clayton, Kansas, is one of the ...

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. Florence, Arizona

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

A cowboy snake-handler at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetwater, Texas

A cowboy snake-handler at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in...

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

Twelve-year-old charro, or Mexican cowboy, Nicolas Diaz gets a break between performances at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National Western Stock Show festivities in Denver, Colorado

Twelve-year-old charro, or Mexican cowboy, Nicolas Diaz gets a break b...

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

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

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