Frederic Remington's sculpture  Bronco Buster  depicts a man in, for 10 points, what Old West profession?
A magazine ad of a man in this profession before a blue sky was manipulated by Richard Prince to become the most expensive retouched photograph ever sold at auction.  Laugh Kills Lonesome  is one of hundreds of paintings of these people by Charles Marion Russell. Franklin Schenck plays a guitar in a Thomas Eakins portrait of a "singing" man in this profession, a trope popularized by Carl T. Sprague. N.C. (*)  Wyeth's  Saturday Evening Post  covers include a depiction of one of these men in profile in front of a setting sun. A bronze statue of one of them based on an 1892  Harper's  illustration depicts a man with a quirt barely holding onto the reins of the title animal. Frederic Remington's sculpture  Bronco Buster  depicts a man in, for 10 points, what Old West profession?
A magazine ad of a man in this profession before a blue sky was manipulated by Richard Prince to become the most expensive retouched photograph ever sold at auction.  
 cowboy s [prompt on  Bronco Buster  until read; prompt on  herder  or  rancher  or  wrangler  or  horse tamer ] 