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Wonderful Historical collections at UC-Berkeley. Everything from 15th Century Spanish books on horsemanship to yearly inventories of California Mission livestock. A scholar's dream.
Portal to all kinds of nifty information on the folkways, conflicts, accomplishments, architecture, etc., of the Catholic Missions in Colonial California.
If you love cowboy crafts, whether in the form of silk scarves, fine saddles, rawhide braiding, music, or books, this is your site. One of the Web's great credit card-melters.
Marvelous musuem north of Paris: the stables are exquisitely beautiful. The museum is located in the stables of the Chateau du Chantilly, seat of the Ducs du Barry. Includes displays and dressage exhibitions.The museum directors made a wonderful effort at including all forms of world horsemanship, but if you do visit the chateau and stables, please disregard what the exhibit says about hackamores.
Further Reading
El Arte de Enfrenar. Check the collections at the Bancroft.
Vaqueros and Buckaroos and These Were the Vaqueros, Arnold Rojas.
Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Bancroft was the historian of Colonial California, who made an effort to record and preserve as many primary sources as possible. For a 19th-Century historian, he did a remarkable job of including all of the cultures and ethnic group that made up the California salpicon. His descriptions of the sidewalk crowds in the Mother Lode towns are in themselves worth reading for anyone who has a sense of adventure.
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