These Were The Vaqueros: Collected Works of Arnold R. Rojas
Arnold Rojas (1896 - 1988) was a true throwback, a man who showed respect for the old ways and for the old ones. He is an important figure in ethnic writing and held an uncompromising pride in his heritage - his family coming to California in the 1820s from Sonora, Mexico. His books were part of the foundation of ethnic pride that was built upon in the tumultuous era of the 1960s. Arnold Rojas holds his place in history as an important literary contributor to the legacy of a region in the west where the horse and horsemen were king and the value of a man was placed in his character and competency, not what he carried in his pocket. Simply put, in Rojas the vaquero found their champion.