Vaquero – Spanish term for a cowboy, specifically one with origins in Spanish and Mexican ranching traditions; skilled horsemen who managed cattle on horseback, their techniques and equipment …

This study will utilize cowboy memoirs either written or dictated 23 Jacqueline Moore, Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 (New York: New York …

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Originally collected by John and Alan Lomax in their 1910 Anthology of Cowboy Song, it was made popular by female folksinger Margaret Larkin. Revived by the Almanac Singers-Woody Guthrie, Pete …

The American cowboy has come to symbolize a freedom, individuality, and closeness to nature which for most of us has become a mere mirage; hence he can serve as a safety valve for our culture.

riminal and civil law. Cattle kings, despite the congressional act of February 25, 1885, which declared unlawful the inclosure of public lands without title, fenced off thousands of acres both to prevent …

This collection consists of six boxes of cowboy poetry submitted by poets and collectors across North America. It grew out of a concerted effort by western state folklorists in the early 1980s to collect, …