AWTeen to Hold Pioneer CAV Contest

Pat Kearney and Gary George have been leading camping and inn-to-inn trail rides throughout southern Utah since 1975. Pat reads pioneer journals to satisfy her curiosities, making her a great guide for a tour through Capitol Reef National Park. On a tour with her, she’ll point out remnants of a one-room schoolhouse from the pioneer Mormon community of Fruita, Fremont mcitp training Ancestral Puebloan petroglyphs on the canyon wall in the Capitol Gorge area and the Cassidy Arch, supposedly a hideout of Butch Cassidy. We can’t prove the outlaw hid there, but it is illustrative of the Robber’s Roost area where he and his fellow Wild Bunch outlaws often found shelter. “All the scenic features of this canyon land are on a giant scale, strange and weird,” wrote explorer mcpd certification John Wesley Powell in 1875. One hundred years later, the Hondoo guides set off to offer an educational adventure that made the terrain less weird, more familiar—and succeeded.The Santa Ynez Valley Vaquero Show & Sale is the oldest event dedicated to the Spanish colonial vaquero, a world-class horseman dating a couple centuries before the American cowboy took mcse hold. Held in the heart of Vaquero country, in Santa Ynez, California, the event began as a collector’s show that evolved into an all-encompassing gathering depicting vaquero life in the 1750-1870 heyday. One of our leading vaquero experts, Lee Anderson, tells us, “It’s as good as it gets. It would definitely get my vote.” Vaquero horsemanship and roping demonstrations are the norm at this vaquero event, put on by the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum,