This wide-open plain is just a fraction of the more than 100,000 acres that the McCalls lease from the Bureau of Land Management.
This wide-open plain is just a fraction of the more than 100,000 acres that the McCalls lease from the Bureau of Land Management.

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With the countryside covered in ice, itโ€™s not always the best idea to take the horses out to roundup cattle. Trucks works better.

Photo By David Robert

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A friend of Dave McCall did the fancy leather tooling found on some of his saddles.

Photo By David Robert

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Dave McCallโ€™s uncle used to recite cowboy poetry. Dave always thought it was a man thing until he moved to Elko.

Photo By David Robert

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Rusty McCall lights candles in one of the horseshoe candleholders his dad, Dave, made.

Photo By David Robert

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Dee, Dave and Rusty McCall agree that there are a lot of things in the high Nevada desert that can inspire a person to write poetry.

Photo By David Robert

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Parts of the McCall house and most of the long cabins on the property were built before 1900.

Photo By David Robert

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