Cowhands and dog, take a break near the entrance to "Fort Boettcher," the guest-ranch portion of Park Range Ranch in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") The cowboys spend most of their time at the working cattle-ranch portion of the operation. The Park Range is a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park." This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson County, one of the the least-populated counties in America, is a somewhat like a beautiful national park minus tourists. Photo by Carol Highsmith.