Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Now, for more than 40 years, he's been a driving force for preserving cowboy culture and the art it inspired, and along the way, he's held several prestigious positions, including serving as associate director for curatorial affairs.

And is there a word any better than curatorial? Serving as associate director for curatorial affairs and the curator of art and Western heritage at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.

And most recently, he served as the McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and curator of the cowboy collections and Western art at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

These days, he stays really busy working as a consultant.