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Valuable Vaqueros

by | Mar 6, 2010 | Art, Guns and Culture

Mexican vaquero collectibles stood out at High Noon’s Western Americana auction.
On June 19, 1867, the day after Joseph McCoy purchased 250 acres of land in what would become the cowtown of Abilene, Kansas, the last emperor of Mexico was executed by a firing squad. Shortly after the execution of Maximilian I by the forces of Benito Juárez, the Julius Skilton family acquired the emperor’s Imperial saddle that he had rode


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