Daryl L. Hunter

Screen Name: the-hole-picture
Currently Living: Irwin, Idaho
Member Since: 11/4/2007
Last Update: 4/6/2008
Gallery Type: Public

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Gallery: Western-Cowboy (20 images)

Cowboys in the west. There is still a healthy remnant of the cowboy way of life in the Jackson Hole/Yellowstone region. There are still a few working ranches around and many guest ranches for the tourist trade. Cowboys, cowgirls, and the spectacular scenery of the west gives me plenty of subject matter to fill my urge to capture this disappearing way of life. The cowboy is one of America's most cherished and mythical figures. He symbolizes the mystique of the American west, a caricature of frontier courage, independence, and rugged masculinity. The iconical cowboy brings to mind, horses, cattle, the howl of a coyote, and wide-open spaces, the cowboy riding off into the sunset. In the west, all these things are still alive and well, but sadly the cowboy may be riding off into the sunset for good. When public grazing ends and ranchers no longer have a place to graze their cows during the hay farming season the cowboy, as we know him will fade away also. Restricted to the confines of a bankrupt fenced in ranch and barred from the wide-open spaces, it will sadly spell the demise for this living icon of Americana.