As our country looks to celebrate the 250th birthday of our country—July 4, 2026—with much fanfare, one of our constants in the High Plains is the National Day of the Cowboy. While some of our ...
A cowboy prepares a horse to be loaded into a trailer at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo in Las Vegas in 2021. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Few figures occupy as prominent a niche in U.S.