Ranch Life Dakota Territory photographer John C. H. Grabill, like his peer Solomon Butcher in Nebraska, was a master at capturing daily ranch life...
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The Legendary Four Sixes Ranch
The ranch was founded 155 years ago by men and women who are as mythical as they are real. Ranching has always been something of a...
Shooting off his Mouth
Or—never threaten a man if you’re unarmed. Rowdy Joe Lowe was one of the best-known saloon owners in the West during the 1870s thru ‘90s. When...
Shooting At Siringo A rustling investigation nearly cost the Cowboy Detective.
Patrick Coghlan owned a cattle ranch in the Three Rivers area of New Mexico. Lawmen, including the legendary Charlie Siringo (photo), found some...
Birth Of The Cowboy “He only got off his horse to dance or to die...”
The original cowboys as we know them today, were the Mexican vaqueros. From Texas to California these superbly skilled horsemen could ride and rope...
Lazy B Ranch The 250 square-mile Lazy B was one of Arizona’s largest cattle ranches...
The post-Civil War years were boom times for cattle ranching in the West. Henry Clay “HC” Day, a New Englander from Vermont, decided to seek his...
The Chiricahua Cattle Company One of the most revered names in the history of the cattle industry in Arizona is the Chiricahua Cattle Company or, as it was known by its brand, the CCC Outfit...
One of the most revered names in the history of the cattle industry in Arizona is the Chiricahua Cattle Company or, as it was known by its brand,...
George Turnbull Cline In a family that produced some of the best cowboys that ever sat a saddle, one man achieved legendary status...
They used to say if you could hold a job cowboying in the Tonto Basin you could cowboy anywhere in the West. In 1874, the Christian Christopher...
Empire Ranch In time the Empire became one of the largest cattle operations in the entire Southwest. At the height of operations, the ranch was running 50,000...
Cattle were first introduced to the land that would become the Empire Ranch back in 1699 when the legendary Jesuit padre Father Eusebio Kino brought...