Posted on 08/27/2012 6:11:33 AM PDT by Daffynition
Breath-taking photographs have captured America's last cowboys, as the age-old profession, or art-form, all but dies out.
A national icon, and an integral part of the country's story, the cowboy is a romantic, rugged metaphor for America's frontier past -- and one that has captivated Hollywood for decades.
For years, photographer Adam Jahiel has been taking pictures of the cowboys of Nevada's Great Basin, perhaps one of the most inhospitable regions of the already harsh West.
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The Mail posts some of these “lost” photos of America from time to time and I love it. But why aren’t American papers doing this? Why do we have to read Brit papers to find articles regarding the bastard in the White House and his antics? American Journos are hacks.
I agree. If you take a camera shooting black and white anywhere outside Fort Worth and start clicking a lot of these photos could be duplicated, especially the one with the dog in the bed of the pickup.
Beautiful pics. Always interesting to contrast the romanticized and the real, hard life of cowboys...
These pictures look like they were taken off at Hollywood movie set. They remind me of Ansel Adams.
The Marlboro Man comes close to the real thing, doesn’t he?
Looks like you have a project...to create/produce a book...when you retire.
Do you have the photos?
Great pictures all in favorites however I think the first picture was actually Don Imus.
The pictures have been shot recently. He just chooses black and white for artistic reasons.
This group of horses comprise a remuda and they are being individually caught for the day’s use.
In the early morning hours, each rider will throw a loop and catch a horse that belongs to them. Depending upon the amount of work for the day, they may go back and get a fresh one.
There is just something very special about black and white photographs! My niece in New Orleans is a photographer, and she works almost exclusively in black and white.
I met the girlfriend of the Marlboro Man’s brother in Santa Fe NM. Did you know that the original Marlboro Man died of lung cancer?
Thanks
We have Cowboys round here.
They go work the cattle get them on trucks and then go home with thier horse and dog.
I love to watch them work Horse, Dog, and Man all moving one of the dumbest creatures ever to where they dont want to go.
It can be like poetry in motion when watching them I have spent more than one lunch hour watching them work.
“But why aren’t American papers doing this? Why do we have to read Brit papers to find articles regarding the bastard in the White House and his antics? American Journos are hacks.”
Probably because the “American Journos” “get their eyebrows plucked and chests waxed”, plus their editors are afraid of folks in flyover country.
Another thing to notice from the pic collection is there's no long hair, beards, or Hollywood 'cowboy' mustaches on these Nevada ropers. You wake up, you wash your face and shave clean. You get haircuts when you go into town. That's the rules at least in this state. I've never seen them look any different.
***The Marlboro Man comes close to the real thing, doesn’t he?***
Marlboro was originally a cigarette for ladies till the advertising department took aim at men and used the cowboy as a way to get men to smoke this lady’s cigarette.
One Marlboro man died when his green horse fell in a pond and the rider died.
Another Marlboro man died of lung cancer.
Well, viewing these put me in another place there for a half-hour or so — wonderful.
But — can someone tell me what to do with the red X’s, please.
Diminishing maybe, but not dead. Most of the stockmen (and ladies) I know have second jobs because the cattle economy operates on such a thin margin and lately there are huge impending feed and fuel issues. Helped a pair of friends hitch their trailer up over the weekend - it had been parked on my property for more than a year - and they’re going to flail away at it one more time, God bless ‘em.
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