Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross one of several small streams at Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado

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Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks." The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson County, one of the the least-populated counties in America, is a somewhat like a beautiful national park minus tourists. The Park Range Ranch includes two operations: a working cattle ranch and a private guest ranch, called "Fort Boettcher," for friends of the owner.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.