Tejano Ranch Life Comes To The Big City At The Institute Of Texan Cultures

It’s a slowly disappearing lifestyle in Texas, but this Sunday it’ll be all on display. The Institute for Texan Cultures is featuring one of those cultures: Tejano Ranching. "There’s a whole culture and way of life around ranching," said the ITC's Brandon Aniol. "A lot of the folks we’re going to have on Sunday are active ranchers and vaqueros in their everyday life. " Vaqueros is the Spanish word for cowboys. "And we’re bringing their lifeways into the museum here for folks to look at," said Aniol. Also coming on horseback Sunday are the Charros Completos. Aniol explained what they are. "Charros Completos are the champion riders, champion ropers, and they take a lot of the expertise that these vaqueros have, and they’re sort of the champions in these lifeways,” Aniol said. I've been to a charreada before, and their abilities with the horses are just amazing. “Oh yeah, they’re incredible," he said. "Victoriano Flores and his family are going to be here. They are three generations of Charros Completos. The grandfather, son and his son are all champions in what they do.”