I met Billy in Joshua Tree May of 2022.

He is one of the last high desert cowboys. A former rodeo cowboy, Billy lives on a mountain top with his dog Bullet and stewards 29,000 acres of desert ranch with just a handful or remaining cattle. The cattle are thwarted by wild pitbulls, the progeny of dogs released to the wild by their owners when they were arrested for cooking meth. I am grateful to Billy for allowing me to make these pictures of him, first hours within meeting and then when I visited him this past April.