Authors:Lawrence Clayton, Jim Hoy, Jerald Underwood,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: life, herders, brown, range, series, american, mounted, cowboys, buckaroos, genesis, vaqueros, north
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292712405
ISBN-13: 9780292712409

Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush country and deserts of the Southwestern borderlands. From them, Texas cowboys learned the trade, evolving their own unique culture that spread across the Southwest and Great Plains. The buckaroos of the Great Basin west of the Rockies trace their origin to the vaqueros, with influence along the way from the cowboys, though they, too, have ways and cust

Authors:Randolph Barnes Marcy, Randolph Marcy,
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: buckaroos, tracking, amp, scouting
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $1.50
ISBN-10: 1557093679
ISBN-13: 9781557093677

Scouting and Tracking as written by Captain Randolph Marcy (The Prairie Traveler, Applewood) on invitation from the War Department in 1857.