Associated Press



John Houser the man behind the Conquistador statue measures the head of the statue during construction that he was creating in Mexico City in 2002. A film documentary “The Last Conquistador,” is scheduled to air nationally Tuesday on the PBS series P.O.V. “The Last Conquistador” follows artist John Sherrill Houser as he sets out to build a statue of Onate, an explorer who founded the first European settlements in the upper Rio Grande Valley and established what would become the cities of El Paso, Texas and Sante Fe, New Mexico. Called “The Equestrian,” the statue depicts Onate atop a towering Andalusian stallion.