How Texas Cowgirls Staked Their Claim in a Man’s World
Mama Sugar swore she’d never move back to the country. “I didn’t want to see the back end of a horse again,” she ... Read More »
Eat Like a Cowboy at These 4 Chuckwagon Experiences
On the banks of the Llano River on an April day, I stroll among cooks in late-19th-century ranch attire. They tend ... Read More »
Where Did All of Texas’ Wild Mustangs Go?
Horsepower Wild mustangs helped shape the state’s cowboy culture By Asher ElbeinTexas used to be horse country. In ... Read More »
A Bronc Rider Beats the Buzzer at the Jim Bowie Days Rodeo in North Texas
While taking photographs this summer for “Fight or Flight,” Dave Shafer visited the Jim Bowie Days Rodeo and ... Read More »
The Brazilian Dominance of the American Professional Bull Riders Circuit
If you’re a rodeo fan, the first thing to catch your eye about Brazilian-born bull rider Silvano Alves is his ... Read More »
The Legend of Pioneering Black Rodeo Cowboy Bill Pickett
Famed rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett was born in 1870 in the community of Jenks Branch, on the border of Travis and ... Read More »
The Tack Shop of a Texas Cowboy’s Dream
Mornings at the Oliver Saddle Shop in Amarillo are rarely quiet. The workshop is filled with the clinking of ... Read More »
Cowboy-Up Chocolates Pays Homage to San Angelo’s Frontier History
At Cowboy-Up Chocolates in San Angelo, Charles Mullin greets customers as “Wild West Charlie,” a character who ... Read More »
The Daytripper Visits the Inspiration for ‘Lonesome Dove’ in Graham
Most travelers are familiar with the Hill Country located west of Austin, but many don’t know about the second, ... Read More »
The Cowboy Spirit Is a Way of Life for These Texas Jews
I’m out at Charles B. “Chuck, the Wrangler” Hart’s 36-acre property in Temple, where he leads me to the barn to ... Read More »
Horsin’ Around
Once, when Maddie Ferguson was riding her horse at a rodeo in Bowie, she overheard a young girl exclaim to her ... Read More »
Cowboy Poets Immortalize Texas Ranching Life
Other states were carved or born,Texas grew from hide and horn.Other states are long or wide,Texas is a shaggy ... Read More »
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