vaquero
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300px|thumb|upright=1.35|Vaquero (1877) thumb|“Music of the Plains” (mural study, Kilgore, Texas, 1939) by [[Xavier Gonzalez. This New Deal-era artwork features a Vaquero serenading a woman, symbolizing the deep Hispanic cultural roots in Kilgore's identity. The original study is housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.]]
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- profession
- Subclass of
- cattle rancher
- Country
- Brazil
- Image
- Music of the Plains (mural study, Kilgore, Texas Post Office) SAAM-1974.28.333 1.jpg
- Field of occupation
- grazing
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- female form of label
- vaqueira
- male form of label
- vaqueiro
- Commons category
- Vaqueros in Brazil
- native label
- vaqueiro
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Arrival in the Americas
- 16th to 19th centuries
- Rancheros
- Modern United States
- American Southwest
- California tradition
- Texas tradition
- Hawaiian paniolo
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
300px|thumb|upright=1.35|Vaquero (1877) thumb|“Music of the Plains” (mural study, Kilgore, Texas, 1939) by [[Xavier Gonzalez. This New Deal-era artwork features a Vaquero serenading a woman, symbolizing the deep Hispanic cultural roots in Kilgore's identity. The original study is housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.]]
The vaquero (; , ) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in what is today Mexico (then New Spain) from a method brought to the Americas from Spain. The vaquero became the foundation for the North American cowboy, in Northern Mexico, Southwestern United States, Florida and Western Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vaquero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.