No Pastime for Old Men
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Bronc riding, calf roping, and steer wrestling may not be pastimes for old men, but taking [...]
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Shiprock and Mont St. Michel
WILLIAM CLIFT WTH KATHERINE WARE A longtime resident of New Mexico, photographer William Clift has returned [...]
What’s Become of the Punchers?
BY JACK THORP What’s become of the punchers We rode with long ago? The hundreds and hundreds of cowboys We [...]
Twilight of the Long Drive in Southern New Mexico
BY B. BYRON PRICE Among the many outstanding photographs of cowboy and ranch life in Santa Fe’s Palace of [...]
The Box S Canyon Fight
BY DODY FUGATE In the 1990s, while cleaning up a collection of early pottery from a site near Zuni Pueblo, I [...]
Peter Sarkisian
BY LAURA ADDISON Artist Peter Sarkisian has said that he is more interested in questions than answers. The [...]
A Tale of Two Paintings
BY MICHELLE GALLAGHER ROBERTS Two nearly identical paintings of a young cowboy named Gerald Marr: one is [...]
Things Seen and Unseen
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN Cowboys Real and Imagined is on view at the New Mexico History Museum, and in this issue [...]
Dining on Horseflesh and Other Cowboy Heresies
Basashi is easy to chew, and mighty tasty when dipped in a garlic-soy sauce. Deep red in color, well-marbled, [...]
Back In The Saddle
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT Horses have always served as potent symbols of the West for easterners as well as locals. [...]
Let’s Talk About This
BY SUZANNE SERIFF Since the inception of the Gallery of Conscience in 2010, the Museum of International Folk [...]
They Wove for Horses:
BY JOYCE BEGAY-FOSS Before the arrival of the horse, foot travel was a constant challenge for the Diné and [...]
Learning the Ropes:
BY RICK HENDRICKS Rope is one of man’s oldest tools. Almost every culture on Earth twisted animal hair, [...]
Sitting Still for Beauty
BY JOAN LOGGHE When I come into town, with my lists and good outfits, with my parcels to mail with my radio [...]
Plain Geometry
BY BOBBIE SUMBERG In 1971 the quiet power of dark colors and large, simple shapes seen in Amish quilts [...]
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