Kim Ragsdale focuses on faces – character faces with wrinkles, broken teeth, no teeth and older faces. Her first drawings were of dogs, horses and cows because they’re so important in western ranch life. They weren’t child-like drawings, but were so accurate anatomically as to be mistaken for photographs.
Joe Netherwood grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s, when youngsters played cowboys and Indians and mimicked their heroes: Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. These cowboys’ western films set the stage and instilled in Netherwood a love for the West that still remains.
A South Texas ranch family uses their everyday vocation as a way to train world-caliber mounted-shooting horses.
Many of Jay Hester’s southwestern paintings feature rugged mountain men bearing an uncanny resemblance to the burly, bearded artist.
Bill Manns, who’s profiled in our April print feature (“Playing Cowboys with Authentic Gear”, has spent a lifetime collecting western memorabilia, much of which forms the basis for historic Old West books he creates at Zon Publishing.
Dave Hodges is about as western as a transplanted Pennsylvanian can be. Although he lived in Bradford, Pennsylvania, until graduating from high school, his yearning for the West was fueled by tales of cowboys and American Indians.
Inspired by old-time TV westerns, Australian Robin Wiltshire trains animals for television and motion-picture roles.
Buster Welch is the recipient of the 2006 Western Horseman Award. In this month’s print feature, author Betsy Lynch explains Welch’s dedication to learning, teaching and enhancing the cutting-horse industry. Here are highlights and sidelights of Welch’s life.