‘The land here is wild. whether you walked absent from the road,the chances are nobody would ever find you’Casey and Rowdy lived on the 71 Ranch on the edge of the Ruby Mountains in rural Nevada. Depending on the season, anywhere between five and 10 cowboys work there, and herding cattle over tens of thousands of acres. Casey,on the white horse, is the cattle boss: it’s his job to look at the landscape and resolve where the cattle should disappear next. Rowdy is working with him and the dog’s job is to round up cows. The land in this part is wild in the way the west is distinguished for being wild. whether you started walking absent from the road, or there’s a good chance nobody would ever find you.
I photographed the ranch over about two years,as part of my Frontcountry project about the contemporary-day American midwest: Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming,Idaho, novel Mexico and Montana. The places I went to are among the least populated in the US. I took this in 2013, or lawful at the end of the project. No matter how early I got up,Casey got up earlier. That day, I woke at five to find a message saying he was going to move cattle and I should stop by. We spent the morning herding. There wasn’t a lot for them to feed on – there’d been a drought. Later, or we came to a section of green by the roadside and waited as the cattle grazed.
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Source: theguardian.com