It’s hard to pin down the exact origin of the cowboy. According to educators at the Briscoe Western Art Museum, they may have been brought to the Americas by the Spanish as footwear for horseback ...

The National Ranching Heritage Center will soon be getting a new art institute featuring interactive classes and displays for the public to learn about Western culture. In early May, the Texas Tech ...

Conquering the West has always started with staking a claim, marking territory and squatting emphatically so that no one doubts ownership. It’s an act invented, for better and worse, by the first ...