A Mexican cowboy is called vaquero or charro and they are the original cowboys. The American settlers learned how to herd cattle from Mexican immigrants
Why stop there if we're going back in time? All the horses in the Americas descended from horses the conquistadors brought with them when they were plundering the continent
I was gonna be like "nah you're way off no way cavemen domesticated horses surely" but turns out after a quick google, depending on what you call cavemen, horses may have been domesticated in the Eurasian Steppes in like 3500 BC, and the Neolithic period ended in 2000BC
That is well past "caveman" times though. Writing existed in some places already at that point. It seems so recent to me. I can't believe so much has gone into horse domestication in only 5,000 years.
Yea but I read that horses are actually from the americas and they migrated over to asia I don’t know there might’ve been a really ancient Native American cowboy somewhere.
Horses lived in the Americas, then went extinct thousands of years ago. The indigenous at the time of Spanish colonization had no familiarity with them.
I believe they were here and it's another claim Europeans like to make about influencing others and "enlightening" others. I think historians will eventually find the connection that few tribes were using horses in America
That's not related. They're still not tending to cows on horseback. They do tend to something on horseback, maybe slaves, but not cows. They only bring the horses, but the mexicans bred them and used them to tend to livestock
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u/Justeff83 3d ago
A Mexican cowboy is called vaquero or charro and they are the original cowboys. The American settlers learned how to herd cattle from Mexican immigrants