USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The vaquero (Spanish: [baˈkeɾo]; Portuguese: vaqueiro, European Portuguese: [vɐˈkɐjɾu, -ˈkej-], Brazilian Portuguese: [vaˈkejɾu]) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in Mexico from a methodology brought to Latin America from Spain.

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: -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. The title, though denoting a separate social class, is similar to caballero, and is a mark of pride.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Mexico and the American Southwest, a cowboy is known as a vaquero.

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.