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Cowboy Pat Puckett Visits the Warner-Carrillo Ranch House
 Juan José Warner, standing second from the left, and his hired vaqueros, photographed in December 1875. Photo courtesy California Historical Society Collection, University of Southern California.
Recently a special guest visited the Warner-Carrillo Ranch House Museum. Pat Puckett has spent 50 years as a cowboy and expert on horsemanship. He has a passion for the California bridle horse and the traditions of the vaqueros, like the men pictured with Juan José Warner, standing second from the left, in the historic photo. Based in Weldon, California, Pat is an author and teaches clinics and gives demonstrations all over the country. While here, he identified an early Spanish ring bit for horses and a rawhide lariat, or lasso, in our collection.
Pat has cowboyed all over the west for close to 50 years and had the opportunity to ride with some of the best reinsmen and cowboys in the West. He developed a passion for the Californio bridle horse, the highest compliment you can pay a horse. The classical origins of this heritage have given Pat a unique viewpoint and the ability to communicate effectively with horses and riders of all disciplines. We hope he will return and put on a clinic or demonstration for us at the museum. To learn more about the vaqueros go to SOHO's online exhibition 250,000 Emigrants, the Overland Mail, and One Extraordinary Latina: The Warner-Carrillo Ranch House. |
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