The Italian word for cowboy is “buttero” and, just like the English term, it refers to horse-riding figures who herd cattle and horses on horseback. They ride the wide Maremma -- a marshy grassland in Italy north of Rome along the western coast of Tuscany.

The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center (AHC) has recently opened a photographic exhibition -- on the “butteri” (plural) and their horse and cattle culture -- titled “Italy’s Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma.” UW’s AHC exhibition area is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.