This writer was among the few who took advantage of the opportunity to visit the Cowboy Museum when it was open during the festival.

The museum displays the private collection of Steve Werner, an 80-year-old Superior resident who inherited the collecting bug from his grandmother.

When I signed the guest book, best estimates put me at about visitor number 50. In the company of Jim and Mel Rempe, our tour guide was the collector, Mr. Werner. And what a superb guide he was.

As he showed us around, we were not only looking at stuff, we were hearing the story behind the stuff.

I learned that saddle...