{"product_id":"to-2026-140","title":"Lore of the California Vaquero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROJAS, Arnold R.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLore of the California Vaquero.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fresno, California: Academy Library Guild, 1958.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 162 pp., frontispiece and photographic plates, illustrated throughout. Cloth boards with decorated endpapers, in the publisher's yellow-gold pictorial dust jacket designed by Beltrán; typography, lithography, and binding all credited to Central Valley firms on the copyright page. Dedicated to the range riders of Kern County. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket: boards clean and square, interior clean with no previous-owner marks; jacket with creasing to the upper front panel, scattered light surface and edge wear, the spine panel evenly toned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Rojas's second book, following \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Vaquero\u003c\/em\u003e (1953); together they anchor his seven-book series documenting the Spanish-Mexican Californio horseman tradition that predated and shaped the broader American cowboy archetype. Rojas writes from inside that world: the bridle horse and the making of a finished rein, the bit and spur and the Spanish-derived language of the trade, the men he rode stirrup to stirrup with, and the lineage he traced back through Mexican California to the mounted traditions of the Old World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-140\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rojas, Arnold R.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955740833,"sku":"TO-2026-140","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-140_01_bb3f91b0-a6a8-4755-b9b2-9bf4bbac7cf2.jpg?v=1783389600","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-140","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}