USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vaqueros were proverbial cowboys-rough, hard-working mestizos who were hired by the criollo caballeros to drive cattle between New Mexico and Mexico City, and later between Texas and Mexico City.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vaquero means a person who managed cattle on horseback. The term “cowboy” means “a boy who tends cows.” Cowboys began their careers as young as eleven or twelve years old, and began earning wages as soon as they had enough skill to be hired.

Detailed explanation-3: -: herdsman, cowboy. used in reference to cowboys in areas (such as Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) where Spanish is spoken. Just as they were among the most accomplished of all horsemen, vaqueros were masters of the rope which they called reata.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Vaquero” is the name for a Mexican cowboy and the likely term that evolved into the Anglo word for cowboy, “buckaroo."

Detailed explanation-5: -Vaqueros had been herding and driving cattle and wild horses for hundreds of years by the time they became part of the Texas ranching landscape. The vaqueros were so renowned for their skills that rancher Richard King traveled to Mexico in 1854 to recruit entire vaquero families to manage his herds.