Visitors since I installed this new counter, Nov 4, 2009

Special Alert:

DOG FOUND

A few miles outside of Ely, at the start of my 11 hour trip home, I witnessed a dog desperately dodging traffic. Without giving it a second thought, I stopped, got out, looked around for him, couldn't find him, returned to my pickup and there he was, sitting on the passenger side in great distress. So not knowing what else to do with him, I brought him home because he was clearly going to die out there in the desert running down the middle of the road as he was ....or of thirst and heat.

He is a shaved border collie, no collar, maybe an older dog who fell out of the pickup–not very active-very skinny. If this is your dog, call me:
541 883-7456.

Featured in this slideshow: The Californios 2010
I add photos almost every day to the slideshow way down below on this page

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Welcome to Buckaroo Country
Photos of Great Basin Buckaroos by Mary Williams Hyde

I grew up on a big old time cattle ranch and have always had a buckaroo soul and a deep passion for the desert....but because I couldn't live on a ranch while I raised my children, and I looked stupid in a hat, I was lost unrecognizable –for years until I took up taking these photos. I take photos of what is left of what interested and amazed me when I rode with the ranch crews all those years ago..and what I saw at the old Indian rodeos at Beatty. I look and look and look for those bits of memories to photograph, trying to put it all back together for myself...as it was such a huge loss to me. I realize that I still don't look like I'm part of the buckaroo world – weathered and shapeless as I am now ...but really I have always been. Next year, too, will be the 100th anniversary of my family's ranch in the Klamath Basin....and that I can go to Yamsi and kick up dust that tens of thousands of cattle have trampled and where ghosts of Uncle Buck, long gone Bar Y buckaroos...and my dad... ride by my side still means the world to me.

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Featured Photographer Spring 2010
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Coming soon...probably slowly, but never-the-less surely,
special feature pages on each of the best Great Basin Ranch Bronc Riders...

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A $20 annual subscription to the photo part of my website will make it possible for me to continue to come to your event, to your ranch, or to photograph you competing for no charge. (You may not realize how much it costs to travel but as an example it was $400 to travel to Enterprise and $500 to travel to Lund, Nevada...out of my pocket...and photo sales generally amount to about one-quarter of my costs) If you spend $75 or more on photos within your subscription year I will refund your $20. Visitors to Buckaroo Country will continue to have complete access to highlite photos from my archives and recent events, the latest updates to regional event schedules, links to folks offering handmade gear & services to the buckaroo world, and feedback from visitors. Thank you!!!

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Processing:

• Lund, Nevada Ranch Rodeo Friday Almost finished with Team sorting
• Lund, Nevada Pioneer Days Rodeo Friday night
• Lund, Nevada Pioneer Days Rodeo Saturday night

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• Run For The Border July 27, 2010
* McDermitt Ranch Rodeo 2010
* Run For The Border July 13, 2010

* Traditional Horse Branding, Burns, Oregon June 25 and 26, 2010
* Old Style Bronc Riding, Burns, Oregon June 26, 2010
* Run For The Border Barrel Racing June 29, 2010

* Mountain High Broncs & Bulls, Enterprise, OR
* 1st Annual Paulina Ranch Rodeo– Bronc Riding...
* Lovelock Ranch Rodeo

* Run For The Border Barrel Racing 6/8/2010
* Spirit of Captain Jack All Indian and Open Rodeo Klamath Falls Oregon Monday May 31
* TS Ranch branding
* Warren Johnson's 2010 Spring branding

* Ranch bronc riding photos from the Mother's Day Rope and Ride in Burns
* Nearly 4000 photos taken at The Californios
* Photos of gathering and sorting Glen Shelley's bucking horses.
• Rattlesnake Creek Branding

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