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The Vaquero: A World-Class Horseman

by | Aug 6, 2009 | Features & Gunfights

Head and shoulders above his counterparts for nearly 500 years.
As an Old West fan you may have tried your hand at riding a horse; you might even consider yourself pretty proficient at it. Some of you can only imagine what it must be like to sit astraddle a five-foot-tall, half a ton of living, thinking, lightning-quick muscle with nothing more than a pair of thin, narrow strips of leather attached to it for control


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