This Cowboy Sculpture stands 27 inches tall. This Unique Metal Art Sculpture is a representation of an Old West Sheriff. The Sheriff is wearing a black Stetson style hat, pulled down low over his eyes, that has a red hat band with a,1 inch, silver star in the center. He has a brown handle bar mustache which almost covers the width of his face and matches his curly hair. He has a burnt sienna bandana around his neck that closes in the front with a 2 inch silver star. He also has a tan vest with three buttons and two small pockets. The chain to his pocket watch is hanging out of one of these pockets. The Sheriff is wearing a long sleeved, blue shirt under the vest and brown, gauntlet style gloves. Around his waist is the holster for his six shooters, which he is holding in each hand. The guns have stars coming from the barrels. He has burnt sienna chaps and his boots are orange spice at the top and down the back and chocolate brown on the bottom with spurs attached by black straps with silver clasps. He stands on an oval base that is 8 inches long and 5 inches deep and is burnt sienna with light gold on top. Select this link to view our Western Christmas Ornaments.
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During the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle raising traditions as well as their horses and cattle to the Americas, starting with their arrival in what today is Mexico and Florida. The traditions of Spain were transformed by the geographic, environmental and cultural circumstances of New Spain, which later became Mexico and the southwestern United States. In turn, the land and people of the Americas also saw dramatic changes due to Spanish influence. Select this link to view our The Original 4x4.
The arrival of horses was particularly significant. Horses quickly multiplied in America and became crucial to the success of the Spanish and later settlers from other nations. The earliest horses were originally of Andalusian, Barb and Arabian ancestry, but a number of uniquely American horse breeds developed in North and South America through selective breeding and by natural selection of animals that escaped to the wild. The Mustang and other colonial horse breeds are now called "wild," but in reality are feral horses, descendants of domesticated animals. Select this link to view our Cowboy Jiggle Down.
As English speaking traders and settlers moved into the Western United States, English and Spanish traditions, language and culture merged to some degree, with the vaquero tradition providing the foundation of the American cowboy. Before the Mexican American War in 1848, New England merchants who traveled by ship to California encountered both hacendados and vaqueros, trading manufactured goods for the hides and tallow produced from vast cattle ranches. American traders along what later became known as the Santa Fe Trail had similar contacts with vaquero life. Starting with these early encounters, the lifestyle and lingo of the vaquero began a transformation which merged with English cultural traditions and produced what became known in American culture as the "cowboy". Select this link to view our Gingerbread Cowboy.