The American cowboy owes so much to the master horsemen—Mexican vaqueros—who were rounding up cattle on horseback several hundreds of years before the northern Europeans even traveled to the West. As historian Lee Anderson puts it, “To this day, the old-time vaqueros’ everyday horse training skills have never been surpassed for their efficiency nor their sheer artistry and beauty.”

True West December 2023
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- Grapevine, Texas
- Following Billy the Kid
- What History Has Taught Me: Warner Glenn and Kelly Glenn Kimbro
- Wyoming Cowboy Cuisine
- Brushy Bill, Winchesters and Whiskey Row
- The Hawken Rifle Turns 200
- A Merger, Memorabilia and McMurtry
- A Little Town with a Big Agenda
- The Arrested Travels of Jedediah Smith
- Shooting Back
- Truth Be Known
- Gold Fever