LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Wes O’Neal, 89, will be the fourth recipient of the Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award after nearly eight decades working for the W.T. Waggoner Estate, the J.A.

Under an achingly blue sky, a lanky cowboy squints into the sun’s haze as he scans the plain. The scene feels frontier fresh, like it could have been plucked from the 1880s. So it seems perfectly ...