Come see the exhibit COWGIRLS: Contemporary Portraits of the American West now showing through August 16th in the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. Sponsored by the Nebraska Humanities Council.

Photographer Ronnie Farley spent three years documenting the lives of two very different kinds of cowgirls: women ranchers and rodeo contestants. From the high country of Wyoming to the national Professional Women’s Rodeo circuit, the resulting black-and-white images capture the everyday reality and resolute strength of the women who call these settings home.