Bison bison on the 4th of July
Last spring, I agreed to spend a month on a working cattle ranch where I’d get to write, take photos, and ride along with the crew. Ranchlands’ Chico Basin property outside of Colorado Springs (the Chico to those in the know), the headquarters of the ranching system, is massive—nearly 90,000 acres of prairie in the shadow of Pike’s Peak, home to countle…