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[[underline]]in the Southwest[[/underline]][[superscript]]21[/superscript]] makes the class distinction very clear. The Mexican [[underline]]jinete[[/underline]], prototype of the rancher, is dressed in the elaborate formal costume found in Walker's painting and rides a Palomino with golden mane and tail. He is accompanied by his elegantly dressed lady on horseback and a (Black?) servant. Wearing a head bandana, simpler clothing, and mounted on a plain dark horse is the [[underline]]vaquero[[/underline]] who doffs his hat humbly. Not only costume, but body carriage differentiate the two. According to one historian, [[underline]]vaqueros[[/underline]], though highly skilled, self-reliant, and occasionally challenging an employer, were as a rule impoverished, highly dependent and obedient workers. Labor protest by [[underline]]vaqueros[[/underline]] like the later Anglo cowboys, was rare.[[superscript]]22[[/superscript]]
In the early 1940s, Lew Davis executed two murals with oil on canvass for the Los Banos, California, and the Marlow, Oklahoma post offices (the former mural is presently in the Los Banos Museum). His 1940 painting [[underline]]Early Spanish Caballeros[[/underline]] shows a spirited group of five riders on Palomino horses in a circular composition reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance. The central caped figure with a Spanish hat has his back to us, while the other four are symmetrically arranged in pairs on right and left, like an exercize in anatomy. The 1942 Marlow mural, [[underline]]The Branding[[/underline]], is a less romantic, more work-a-day subject. Four cowboys are circularly arranged around a wood fire within a corral with a horse and several cattle. One coils his lasso while the other three, working vigorously, are branding a fallen animal. Two of the branders are hidden behind their hats; the third is dark skinned with a long black mustache: very probably a Mexican [[underline]]vaquero[[/underline]]. He wears a black hat, white shirt, and blue jeans. Davis was employed by the Section of Fine Arts to do both murals.
[[underline]]TRANSPORTATION[[/underline]]
Long before rail lines and highways were built in the Southwest, the Spaniards and Mexicans organized an elaborate system of pack-trains that operated over the

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Upon review, corrected "dress" to "dressed"