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Slideshow: Cowboys at Work on Ranches in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, 1903-1904

HPPR stumbled across these photos that provide a magnificent look into the working lives of cowboys on the XIT, FDW and JA ranches in the Texas Panhandle, as well as other ranches in New Mexico over 100 years ago.

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