They aren't all gone. Here's a bunch of working cowboys from the Bell Ranch in east central New Mexico. Notice the couple of kids. Many of the cowboys who work that ranch had fathers, grandfathers and possibly great grandfathers who also worked on the ranch. Having spent time over there, I'll tell you this too: they are some hard men. Never saw any of the guys in the picture, but it is recent within the past decade.
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