- Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
…nathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, in 1725 use of cowboy to refer to nothing more than a boy tending cows. == Buckaroo == The first use of the word “cowboy” in the U.S. is in the **New Orleans Picayune**, not referring to a man, but …
… ending ~1870. N.American cattle herders called themselves **vacquero** a Spanish word that was Anglicised to become **Buckaroo**. In fact, cowboy was used in a negative way to refer to Brits/Tories who stole US cattle during the war of independe…
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