Clay Dahlberg, western sculptor, had his sights set on becoming a cowboy right from the beginning. He was, after all, a Texas boy who had been born in San Antonio and would grow up in the Houston area. But while most city-born Texas boys were content with toy guns, stickhorses and Saturday matinees, Clay Dahlberg went after the real thing. He had a Cotulla connection, an ancestral attachment to the South Texas brush country where the real cowboys came from.

Clay Dahlberg's childhood experiences from the summers he spent on a ranch near the small Texas town of Cotulla marked him for life. He absolutely idolized his great-grandfather, B. J. Pate, who seemed to have been born to be a brushpopper, as was his son, Clay's Uncle Roy.

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