The Idaho Buckeroo Project
I’m Susan Allen reporting for Open Range. You know some people have figured out how to live their passion, like Denise Smith of Heppner who a few years back had a vision to honor working cowgirls through art, today the In The Company Of Cowgirls art show part of the Pendleton’s Cattle Barons weekend is a national event, after the break I’ll tell how about how an Idaho photographer is on another western art mission . You don’t call them cowboys, they are Buckaroo’s those folks that live remote sections of Oregon, Idaho and Nevada running cattle and working horses. Photographer Andrea Scott has been fascinated by the men and women who sport a unique style of clothing and gear that traces back to the Spanish Vaqueros. Scott received small grants from both the Idaho Humanities Council and Idaho Commission on the Arts to help create a traveling photography exhibit set to visit schools and art museums. Like Edward S. Curtis’s Native American scenes Scott hopes the Idaho Buckaroo Project filmed on ranches in places like Owyhee County will preserve buckaroo history and working art …braided leather, silver, spurs etc... for generations. To help raise funds for The Buckaroo Project, Dawson Taylor Coffee Roasters has created a new blend of coffee called Idaho Buckaroo Brew, sold retail and online. But it will take more than coffee beans to bring Scotts vision of art shows, a permanent Buckaroo museum as well as scholarships for buckaroo families to life. To learn how you or your company can help support t the Buckaroo Project visit Open Range on Face book. page, http://ascottwesternphotography.com/
