That is pretty good, being a Cowboy is still an attractive thing , not counting the incredable amount of hard work.
http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/profiles/Adam-Jahiel-The-Las-7028.shtml“The Last Cowboy” project began as the result of a quirky editorial job that required Jahiel to photograph a celebrated rodeo bull named Pacific Bell that resided on a ranch on the California/Nevada border. “The nickel dropped,” says Jahiel, who took one look around the ranch and realized he’d met his calling. “[The shoot] resonated with me on a personal level. I didn’t have any intentions of doing anything more with it, I just wanted to capture that one assignment [of the bull] and have fun shooting and printing it.” But it became an addiction and little by little, he says, he spread his wings and photographed at various ranches throughout the west. “The whole cowboy culture varies greatly from Wyoming to Nevada to Texas,” explains Jahiel, who says he wears a very different hat when he’s shooting in Nevada. “There’s something about the landscape—the sky, the empty miles of terrain—that really appeals to me.” Those same elements, he notes, don’t seem to exist for him in Wyoming or other states. “I think it’s just the emptiness,” he says. “Without Las Vegas and Reno, I think Nevada would be the least populated state in the country.”
In the summers, the cowboys live nomadic lives, traveling from cow camp to cow camp. “In Wyoming, the proximity to homes and towns [from the ranches] is more accessible. After work, it seems people can live more normal lives. But in Nevada, the cowboys are cut off from all that,” says Jahiel, who enjoys the solitude and considers it a huge luxury not to be plugged in all the time. He basically moves in and lives with
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