#NFR14 | Stock Pens - American Cowboy | Western Lifestyle - Travel

It takes three days just to set up all the pens.

Just down the street from the Las Vegas Strip, the NFR stock pens seem a world away.

Riding out in the morning to gather the South Chinery pasture. TJ Roberts is the manager and Tyler Weatherford is the wagon boss. There was a crew of 12 men—six men in front and five behind me. It’s usually dark when we start out, so I’m always excited when the sun hits the horizon and I can do what I do best.

When you meet Peter Robbins, it's easy to mistake him for the cowboys he photographs. But his career started a long way from the cowboy world.

Dwight Hill, Blackfoot, Idaho. "This portrait was taken during one of my photo workshops near Mackay, Idaho," says photographer David Stoecklein. "I have known Dwight for many years and have always respected him. He’s a cowboy legend in some parts."

Frontiers

In tribute to one of the West's greatest photographers and champions.

Frontiers

Cowboys bowling for a great cause!

Cowboys

PRCA stock contractor John Barnes tells us what goes on behind the scenes of the arena action.

Clay Rodgers grew up on the Babbitt Ranches, one of the northern Arizona's largest, most historical outfits. Today he is a camp man at the Espee Camp.

Frontiers

Images from some of Arizona's biggest outfits.

Cowboys

8-time World Champ bull rider Donnie Gay shares his favorite rodeo story.

Aaron Willson of Willson Cattle Company in Pinedale, Wyo., works a young new ranch horse named Billy Jack. Taking the time to train a horse well is important, especially when one’s livelihood is earned in the saddle.

Frontiers

Honoring the cowboy way.

Lifestyle

In the midst of a thunder storm, at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 26, 2010, at the 29th Annual END of TRAIL, The World Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting and Wild West Jubilee held at Founder’s Ranch, New Mexico, the drawing for The Legendary 1870’s Stock Saddle and accouterments was held. Miss Ginny Mac, the young and very talented singer/song writer/musician from Ft. Worth, TX who along with her band was performing at END of TRAIL, reached deep into the raffle drum and drew out the winning tick

#NFR14 | Stock Pens

Stay Connected to American Cowboy

#NFR14 | Stock Pens Part I

Jet Set to Saddle Tramp

Portraits of the West by David Stoecklein

Bob Tallman Charity Bowling

#NFR14 | The Stock Pens

The Boss Lady's View

#NFR14 | Donnie Gay

Grit and Sunsets

Oklahoma Cowgirl Wins the 1870's Stock Saddle Opportunity Drawing