Cowboy and skyline, Dallas, Texas, 1945.

Leaning on the neck of his pony, a cowboy watches his herd graze
on a diminishing stretch of pasture in front of a growing city. The
American landscape had changed almost beyond imagining in the
few decades that separate the crowded urban backdrop in this
picture from the popular nineteenth-century image of the lone
cowhand on the prairie. William Langley, who took the picture,
doubtless posed his subject quite carefully to make a journalist’s
point.

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