But there's a real heart to Stede and Blackbeard's courtship, and they're not the only queer characters on OFMD, either: The ship's crew is a delightfully quirky ensemble, from Nathan Foad's writer Lucius to Vico Ortiz's nonbinary assassin Jim. So many shows have hinted at similar relationships between male characters, only to reveal that it's just a platonic bromance. There's something refreshing about watching their slow-burn love affair unfold, especially when TV has a long, ugly history of queerbaiting. Soon, he finds an unlikely ally in the notorious Blackbeard ( Taika Waititi, who also directs), and the two captains strike up a friendship and eventual romance. Watch the full interview on Red Steagall Is Somewhere West of Wall Street via RFD-TV's streaming platform.Who knew that a ragtag pirate comedy would become one of TV's sweetest and smartest examples of queer representation? Our Flag Means Death is a swashbuckling delight, following "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet ( Rhys Darby) as he ditches his privileged life on land to seek adventure on the high seas. Red: When the National Cutting Horse Association first was founded, at that time, did you look for a particular breeding in a horse, or did you go out to the big ranches and look at all of the horses and pick out the ones that you thought would have the ability to be a good cutting horse?īuster: No, I kept maintaining that it wasn’t nothin’ in the breeding, and I would look for one that would watch a cow and add enough action that it would move itself. And I went down to King Ranch and had 15 years of fun. ![]() And I made a point of going to work for them, and to get in where the good cow horses were and let my son, Ken, run our operation. Later on, I became more schooled in good horses, the King Ranch horses. Red: So, when you started looking for cutting horses, was there a particular group of horses that exhibited the propensity for being a cutting horse?īuster: No, not that I knew about. But I think it might have been that chuckwagon cooking that stunted my growth a little. I had one brother, Colonel, that was 6-1 and the other one was 6-2, and they thought I’d be bigger than them. I was probably nearly as big then as I am now. They were two outstanding cow men and had two years of college, which was unusual then. I worked, luckily, for Foy and Leonard Proctor. Red: You told me one time you left home pretty early.īuster: Yes. And I’d watch for a horse that’d watch a cow a little, and I’d pull him around a little on cattle. Nobody was breaking horses during the war, and I broke 107 horses for the Long X out in the Davis Mountains, and every group I’d break, I’d have a cutting horse. And everywhere I went, the cowboys gathered around, and they would talk about what they’d seen him do. I think that started me to ride cutting horses. When he got about 15 years old, my uncle bought and gave him to me. And an uncle bought an old cutting horse that my dad had broke, and his cousin trained him and traded him. ![]() The October 2021 issue of Cowboys & Indians:īuster Welch: Well, my mother died when I was two weeks old and my grandparents took me and raised me on the divide. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Welch's loved ones. Read on for words from a down-to-earth legend. We were lucky enough to share some of Buster's 2021 conversation with Red Steagall in the October issue. ![]() Another character summed his outsized influence up nicely: "There's three gods in Texas: the Almighty himself, Buster Welch, and George Strait." ![]() He received a high-profile tribute of sorts last year when he appeared as himself on an episode of Yellowstone. Welch enjoyed a long and impressive career in cutting horses that won him world championships and distinguished honors from the NCHA hall of fame and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. The West lost one of its modern-day heroes earlier this weekend when legendary cutting horse trainer and multiple hall-of-famer Buster Welch passed away at age 94. We remember the legacy of beloved horse trainer Buster Welch by revisiting an exchange between Welch and Red Steagall from the October 2021 issue.
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