Jason Rich was just 10 years old when he rubbed shoulders with real buckaroos, wrangling on a ranch in southern Idaho. These included his uncle—“the real deal” when it comes to cowboying, Rich tells The Epoch Times—and Rich’s cousins, who helped their dad on cattle drives to cool grazing pastures during the hot summers.
Rich says he wasn’t the best rope hand the West had seen, but he saddled up and helped anyway, and in the process gained a love of cowboy culture, not to mention inspiration for his decades-long career as a Western art painter.
