(1) Today's art of cowboying is the same as it was 150 years ago, when cowboys in the Spanish vaquero tradition roamed mountain ranges and low-slung plains.(2) Cody is again dressed in buckskins instead of his vaquero outfit.(3) The lore of the gun tells us that back in the 19th Century, the Mexican vaquero , much like the American cowboy, was an independent and self-reliant sort who often made it a point to carry a handgun.(4) Through the support of a Corporate Partner family, the association works to keep the vaquero tradition alive in today's equine industry.(5) As cattle ranching spread northward into California and Texas, Americans adopted the tools and techniques of the vaquero .(6) De Yong took note of these changes, and in September 1926 he moved to the California vaquero country near Santa Barbara to study bronze casting with western artist Ed Borein.(7) He wanted his men to ride like Comanches, and he borrowed some techniques and equipment from Mexican vaqueros .(8) Even so, I was surprised to find Spanish vaqueros - cowboys - in the western province of Extremadura, were still herding cattle on horseback.(9) On his way to Montana, he traps beaver with Jim Bridger, pans for gold in Colorado, visits with Kit Carson in New Mexico, and finds himself in most desperate situations with Navajos, Comanches, Apaches, and Mexican vaqueros .(10) ‘A good horseman can ride any horse and it's the same with dancing,’ said the vaqueros and it was true.(11) At Lethem on the Brazilian frontier there's a big rodeo every Easter, attended by many rugged vaqueros from both sides of the border.(12) The American cowboy has roots that directly trace back to the Mexican vaqueros , and Arizona itself has very strong Spanish ties.(13) He had little trouble hazing his quarry back toward the bunch that some vaqueros , including Cipriano, were keeping track of.(14) Two years later the king requested that three California mission vaqueros come to Hawai'i to teach Hawaiians how to handle cattle from horseback.(15) Kids, dressed up as little vaqueros , imitated and practiced the steps that the grown-ups were dancing.(16) The new Rodeo almost passes for a literal bucking bronco roundup, jam-packed with so many vaqueros that I feel naked without a Mexican-style cowboy hat of my own.
