So history’s mostly a horseback song

And set to the thud of the hoofs.

~~~from Horseback Men by Charles Badger Clark

The horseback man has long been revered worldwide. From Genghis Khan, who kept showing up where he wasn’t expected, to the Argentinian gaucho to the Guardians in the South of France, the romantic figure of a man on a horse has become part of the folklore of many cultures. The cowboy, relatively new on the scene, has become the most recognized symbol of our once-wild American West. Here in Yavapai County, he is a huge piece of our present as well as our past.