f $19,340 per year.
Not a glamorous paycheck, that is for sure! I used to want to visit a dude ranch in the West and see what life was like out West.
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www.history.com www.history.comCowboys6
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e to help run large ranches in states like Texas, Utah, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
but to what extent do they run cattle and have to steer them from region to region? I'm sure the cowboys still have to be quite experienced, but I imagine it's much different than before when the cattle were moved from one region to another, which sometimes took months on end.
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lly developed a bad reputation for being lawless, and some were banned from certain establishments.
It seems that life was really wild. That is why they call it the Wild Wild West. Because of the "open range" people must oh had more freedom to act as they chose. Also, it must be pretty hard to have a sherif who was responsible for large areas with barely any population. In this way people could commit crimes more easily. Or it might have been just the kind of lifestyle that cowboys had that led them to get bad reputations. In every profession there are bad apples and reckless people.
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ontinued to be widespread through the late 1800s. White settlers were permitted to claim public lands on the Great Plains as “open range” to raise purchased cattle
This reminds me of what is currently happening in other parts of the world. Claiming land that actually belonged to others.
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African-Americans, Native Americans
In the movies, the famous cowboys are always white!
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Mexico’s native cowboys were called vaqueros, which comes from the Spanish word vaca (cow). Vaqueros were hired by ranchers to tend to the livestock and were known for their superior roping, riding and her
The American cowboy came from the Mexican cowboy or vaquero. In popular culture, it seems that Mexicans don't get the credit for the characteristics that the American cowboys inherited from them.
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