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Vaquero in a Vacuum

by | Aug 6, 2009 | Features & Gunfights

Monk Maxwell shows us the three phases of California vaquero-style horse training.
I've heard it said countless times that if you can punch cows in Yavapai County, Arizona, you can punch cows anywhere. The rough, steep, brushy, boulder-strewn terrain provided the tests that young Monk Maxwell passed with soaring colors. He apprenticed with his father Virgil, who tied his catch rope hard and fast, Texas style and made super-


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