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
They weren’t immigrants if they lived there at the time American settlers arrived. A good part of the southwestern US was inhabited by Mexicans long before it became part of America. Many of them were later expelled.
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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