Salute Your Favorite Cowboy Today


Western Town (mural study, Helper, Utah Post Office) Attend the Cowboy Hall of Fame Dinner tonight in Willcox, Arizona.

The Cowboy Hall of Fame in Willcox, Arizona, holds its annual dinner this evening to honor its favorite son, Rex Allen, and more modern cowpersons as well. The winner of the Rodeo Queen competition will be named, after judges have evaluated the candidates' riding skills and written essays.

This post office mural study, also created to honor the cowboy, shows a pair of hard riding wranglers arriving in town to spend a season's pay and collect their mail.

Pictured: Jenne Magafan, 1916–1952, Western Town (mural study, Helper, Utah Post Office), about 1939–1943, oil, 25 1/2 x 43 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration.