Enrique artist

Among those things quintessentially American—John Wayne, the Grand Canyon, and Hollywood Westerns—is also the bolo tie. Consider the story of how the bolo came to be—actually several stories...mythology being another component of American icons. One comes from an icon in Indian arts: the late Manny Goodman, owner of The Covered Wagon, in Old Town, Albuquerque. He shared a recollection of Albuquerque in the 1930's, of Navajo, Hopi and Zuni men using silver conchos to clasp bandannas at their necks. Western historians point earlier to the pioneer tradition of kerchiefs tied at the neck, and to the mid-1800's when cowboys turned the kerchief around on their necks and knotted them at the back to make the bandanna. The stuff of mythology, however, needs a hero for the story, and thus we have Victor Cedarstaff, of Wickenburg, Arizona.

It's the late 1940's and Victor and his buddies are chasing wild horses across the northern reaches of the Sonoran Desert (about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix). The hunt was fierce, and in the fray Victor's hat with its ornate silver-

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