1. 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…
   ….com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/on-the-history-of-the-word-cowboy.html | Reference]] {{tag ids="Cowboy horse vacquero buckaroo cows cattle herder England"}} …

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