Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy
Text from the http://www.humanitiestexas.org/exhibitions/list/by-title/vaquero-genesis-texas-cowboy In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered Bill Wittliff a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—to visit a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work […]