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This way of life has been memorialized in the work of Arnold Rojas, who was a vaquero and has written about his life in California in the twentieth century.
With its statue of Columbus, the main square is elegant, and the Museo Oscar María de Rojas (at Avenida 4 and Calle 12) houses a quirky, varied collection of items, from slaves’ manacles to a 19th-century funeral coach and two fleas all dressed up to dance.
In his reminiscences of vaquero culture and of the impact Mexican Sonorans had on California, Rojas shows a side of Chicano culture not commonly known.
He spent his whole life working as a vaquero and he states, “I speak as a vaquero—and I know whereof I speak” (Rojas, 1979, 119).
Rojas was born in California, as was his mother, who as a child had a pleasant encounter with the bandit Tiburcio Vásquez.