Cowboys Deluxe

Cowboys Deluxe 

At one time the Miller & Lux Ranch in California was the largest combined ranching, farming and meat-packing operation in the country. Founded in 1858 by emigrant butchers-turned-entrepreneurs, Golden State cattle kings Henry Miller and Charles Lux, the ranch covered close to 1.3 million acres of land in California, Oregon and Nevada. Miller & Lux cowboys (l.-r.) Charley Gallagher, Ace Mitchell, Buster Jack O’Donnell, George Welsh and Jim Welsh paused from their chores on the home ranch four miles north of Yerington, Nevada, to be photographed by O.S. Dowe, circa 1885-1895.