Vaquero: Genesis Of The Texas Cowboy

WILLIAM D. WITTLIFF

Publication: University of Texas Press, 2004, Austin

First edition. Oblong 8vo. Cloth, brown front and rear endpapers, 175 [1] pp., frontispiece, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated. Introduction by John Graves. Cowboys, ranch life, Mexico, numerous fine photographs serve to illustrate the daily work and the people. "Wittliff, a gifted photographer and Texas country boy, traveled to a big ranch in Coahuila, Mexico where he photographed vaqueros working and living the history of ranching, cattle and horses." He photographed vaqueros who still worked cattle in the old traditional ways. He captured a way of life that no longer exists, and with 95 photographs and text he relates that dramatic experience. Fine in dust jacket.