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  2. Vaquero - Wikipedia

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    Vaquero, c. 1830. The vaquero (Spanish:; Portuguese: vaqueiro, European Portuguese: [vɐˈkɐjɾu]) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in Mexico from a method brought to the Americas from Spain.

  3. Cowboy - Wikipedia

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    In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate sent an expedition across the Rio Grande into New Mexico, bringing along 7000 head of cattle. From this beginning, vaqueros drove cattle from New Mexico and later Texas to Mexico City. [26] Mexican traditions spread both South and North, influencing equestrian traditions from Argentina to Canada. [citation needed]

  4. Querecho Indians - Wikipedia

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    Coronado and his army found a Querecho settlement of about 200 houses on the Llano Estacado, of Staked Plains, of the Texas Panhandle and adjacent New Mexico. On the Llano they also saw vast herds of buffalo or bison. According to members of Coronado’s expedition: [The Querechos lived] in tents made of the tanned skins of the cows (bison).

  5. At Mexico's gay cowboy conventions, men connect with each ...

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    Named after the semi-automatic style of rifle, the Nayarit-based musical group is legendary, its brass-driven songs about treacherous women and wild parties emblematic of vaquero culture in ...

  6. Luis Jiménez (sculptor) - Wikipedia

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    Luis Alfonso Jiménez Jr. (July 30, 1940 – June 13, 2006) was an American sculptor and graphic artist of Mexican descent who identified as a Chicano. [1] [2] He was known for portraying Mexican, Southwestern, Hispanic-American, and general themes in his public commissions, some of which are site specific.

  7. Western wear - Wikipedia

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    Lawman Bat Masterson wearing a bowler hat.The bowler hat was later replaced by the cowboy hat.. In the early days of the Old West, it was the bowler hat rather than the slouch hat, center crease (derived from the army regulation Hardee hat), or sombrero that was the most popular among cowboys as it was less likely to blow off in the wind. [1]

  8. Tejanos - Wikipedia

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    Today, Tejano music is a wide array of multicultural genres including rockteno and Tejano rap. The American cowboy culture and music was born from the meeting of the European-American Texians, Indigenous people, colonists mostly from the American South, and the original Tejano pioneers and their vaquero, or "cowboy" culture. [31] [32] [33] [34]

  9. Western American Art - Wikipedia

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    Remington estate 'Endion' in New Rochelle, New York. The Gothic-revival cottage was designed by Alexander J. Davis. Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, who is considered to be one of the most representative artists of Western subjects. His paintings are mostly concentrated on the subjects of western American and the cowboys ...