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Bowen, Jimmy

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Bowen, Jimmy

August 20, 2026

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Jimmy Bowen, owner of the 88,000-acre Bowen Ranch in Northeast El Paso and southern New Mexico, died of natural causes on February 1, 2012, at age 79, surrounded by his children. Widely regarded as one of the last working cowboys in the El Paso area, Bowen became a local symbol of the Old West and…

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