Backstage in the dressing room, the nervous energy was high as each cowboy primped before a vanity mirror. For some, like “Antonio Rios,” the nerves came from more than a little stage fright.

It’s a warm evening and hundreds of people are gathered at a ranch on the outskirts of Franklin County for the region’s largest cowboy show that many residents have never heard of. A bull rider who ...

Tito Guizar, an actor and singer who brought Mexican cowboy music to New York and opened the way for Mexican performers in Hollywood, died Dec. 24 in San Antonio. He was 91. Mr. Guizar was the first ...

For nearly a decade in the 1980s and early 1990s, Gerardo “Jerry” Diaz wowed crowds at the National Western Stock Show with his roping and riding skills in the style of the charro or Mexican cowboy, ...

Tlajomulco de Zúñiga (Mexico) (AFP) – Wearing a wide-brimmed hat, silver-buttoned shirt and embroidered tie, teenager Victor Teran skillfully twirls a lasso at a Mexican school training younger ...

The cowboy hat, perhaps as much a stereotype as a tradition, is the accessory most universally identified with regional Mexican music -- but not necessarily anymore. On the red carpet at the Billboa… ...

Casa de Mi Padre is a Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell as a simple-minded, asexual Mexican cowboy who welcomes the return of his prodigal brother, Raul (Diego Luna), to the family ranch ...

Artist Tomas Bustos (bottom left) helps Paul Bryant and his crew from Bryant Art Foundry install Vaquero de Fort Worth in Fort Worth. FORT WORTH — There’s a new cowboy in town. And, yes, he’s packing ...