Fiddlin' Pete Watercott performing "Old Joe Clark" at the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering (youtube video)

I hope that you have enjoyed the video featuring my fiddle performance at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.  Now certainly the fiddle has played a much more important role in the old traditional cowboy music than guitar.  Certainly the fiddle, along with banjos and harmonicas were much more likely to be seen at a campfire "out on the trail".  It would be tough to pack a guitar on horseback, but you could easily pack a fiddle on horseback.  Of course a fiddle would never fit in your pocket, like a harmonica, but you could pack the fiddle on a mule, haul a fiddle in the chuck wagon.