The Great Basin Buckaroo
Cowboy Photography - American West - Prints
The Great Basin is a special part of the American West, particularly as it applies to cowboy culture and the buckaroos that call it home. Among the few remaining iconic ranches still left in northern Nevada are the C-Punch Ranch in Lovelock and the Winecup Gamble Ranch in Montello. Both are jaw dropping beautiful and incomprehensibly large. The C-Punch, the biggest I’ve been to so far, is 1.8 million acres. Yeah. Try wrapping your head around that. Seeing all these properties in different parts of the country has been amazing. Each region has its own allure. Nobody ever said to pick a favorite, but there’s something about the land in northern Nevada that really does it for me. Still working on putting that into words, but it’s exceptional, to say the least and took a few years to truly understand. At first, places that big, open, and seemingly void of life are difficult to grasp. Then something clicks and you can’t get enough of it. The muted colors, textures, and vibes of the Sage Brush Sea are intoxicating.
Photograph of a cowboy working cattle on the C-Punch Ranch - Nevada
C-Punch Ranch
Winecup Gamble Ranch - Montello, Nevada
Photograph of a buckaroo catching horses
Buckaroos branding cattle in Nevada
Black and white photograph of cowboys on the Winecup Gamble Ranch
Cowboy moving cattle on the Winecup Gamble Ranch
C-Punch Ranch
C-Punch Ranch - Cowboys working horses in a round pen
C-Punch Ranch
American West Cowboys
Portrait of Trapper Rodgers
C-Punch Ranch - a cowboy waters his horse
C-Punch Ranch
A cowboy riding his horse on the C-Punch Ranch in northern Nevada