OPEN RANGE

"Open Range" has been forty years in the making. With my recent return from the YP Ranch in northern Nevada I completed photographing twelve of the country's largest ranches. These "big outfits" are in many cases the same ones I cowboyed on in my youth and the same ones my father photographed for his book, The Cowboy, in 1975. They all play host to the nomadic big outfit cowboy intent on living a traditional way of life in a modern world. I hope you enjoy this preview and I further hope this work adequately conveys the respect and gratitude I feel towards the men and women I met on the trail of this project. - - - John Langmore