 Painting of a Mexican Vaquero in action roping cattle during 1830s Mexican California. Image by James Walker, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
The VaquerosVaquero Vaquero Horse-mounted livestock herder For other uses, see Vaquero (disambiguation) and Buckaroo. The vaquero ( Spanish: [baˈkeɾo]; Portuguese: vaqueiro, European Portuguese: [vɐˈkɐjɾu]) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in what is today Mexico (then New Spain) from a method brought to the Americas from Spain. The vaquero became the foundation for the North American cowboy, in Northern Mexico, Southwestern United States, Florida and Western Canada. This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations. (September 2025) Vaquero (1877) “Music of the Plains” (mural study, Kilgore, Texas, 1939) by Xavier Gonzalez. This New Deal-era artwork features a Vaquero serenading a woman, symbolizing the deep Hispanic cultural roots… (Source: Wikipedia)
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