Learning the Ropes: BY RICK HENDRICKS Rope is one of man’s oldest tools. Almost every culture on Earth twisted animal hair, [...]
The Work of Art BY CARMELLA PADILLA As refugees, [Joy] Ndungutse and [Janet] Nkubana were among the lucky. Both educated and [...]
Good Winds and Good Days BY FELICIA KATZ-HARRIS Kites! Appealing to young and old alike, kites fill us with wonder and we watch them [...]
Shot Clock BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL This clock haunted me from the first time I saw it. If I had been in an art museum [...]
No Pastime for Old Men BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Bronc riding, calf roping, and steer wrestling may not be pastimes for old men, but taking [...]
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 [...]