Tío Cowboy, 5: Juan Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman J. Steven York An attractive and mad collection

An attractive and mad collection of ideas

with thoughtful attention to ideology

tragedy and wonder in equal parts

including a large-animal surgeon

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Tío Cowboy, 5: Juan Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman J. Steven York An attractive and mad collectionOne of the best tie down calf ropers ever to come out of South Texas, Juan Salinas grew up on a 15,000 acre ranch near Laredo, with the finest of horses to ride and hundreds of head of cattle to practice on. He roped in Texas rodeos large and small from the mid 1920s to 1935. From 1936 to 1946, he followed the national rodeo circuit, competing from Texas to New York's Madison Square Garden. At the time, few if any other Mexican Americans competed in