r/nextfuckinglevel 4d ago

Mexican 'cowboy' stopped armed robbery

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u/Justeff83 4d 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

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u/spottie_ottie 4d ago

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

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u/ognahc 3d ago

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.