Reading Beasley's words and seeing his images (drawings), you feel, as fellow Texan Walter Cronkite used to say, that 'You Were There.' In fact, Beasley was there. One gets the impression that Beasley was drawing the death of a vaquero at the very moment when he saw him gored by a killer steer..."​

–Kurt Heinzelman, University of  Texas at Austin

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