By today's standards, Western sculptor Vic Payne has lived a sort of cowboy life himself. When he was ten, his family moved from Dallas to a ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, where his father artist Ken Payne began painting full time after leaving a career as an airline and crop-dusting pilot. Young Payne thought he'd died and gone to heaven.

"All of a sudden we had horses and cows. We were forty miles from anyone. Those were the fondest days of my life no troubles in life. My dad was painting. He had this little adobe studio, and he had his library there; I'd go in there and read Will James' book and look at pictures of paintings by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington. We didn't have a TV; there wasn't much else to do."

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