America: Promised Land: Spanish Ranchers Bring Cattle to Texas | History

Until the Spanish arrived in the Southwest, there wasn’t a single cow in America, but within decades their ranching efforts result in over 3 million longhorn cows roaming the Texas grasslands. #AmericaPromisedLand
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America: Promised Land
Season 1
Episode 1
America: Promised Land
"America: Promised Land" chronicles the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States, anchored by interviews with descendants of ancestors and geographical imagery that showcases the history of how America was populated.
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[@robertobartolom7385]

I'm a descendant of Isleños, Canary Islanders from Tenerife.

[@hcgg7731]

Roberto Bartolom nice

[@franciscojosecano2217]

andalusian como el caballo y el toro bravo guanche no toro no caballo

[@mtzdotcom7260]

One of the many reasons why I like being Mexican

[@user-cm2lz9se1v]

Mexican isn’t Spanish…

[@ATH420]

​@@user-cm2lz9se1v As a Spaniard Mexicans have the right to being proud its our common history

[@devilzaid6666]

Spaniards didn’t create the vaquero culture, vaqueros/cowboys don’t exist and never existed in Spain it was born in Mexico thanks to them but they weren’t the first vaqueros the only thing the Spanish brought that was made in Spain was the boots they didn’t even invent the guitars tons of misinformation given by the Spaniards who always think they invented everything in Mexico

[@AM-yi4dd]

@@user-cm2lz9se1vif you can’t see the obvious connection then your education has failed you

[@heisenberg5570]

@@user-cm2lz9se1v more spaniard than american native for sure

[@chichipalacio]

Impresionante la historia de texas y la ganadería en esta parte de américa....

[@edgardomunoz2688]

Literalmente fue similar en el resto de America. Gauchos, charros, llaneros, chalan, chagra, huaso; todos tienen su origen en la vaquería española. Ya que ellos fueron los que trajeron a las vacas y los caballos; al igual que las técnicas de crianza, preparación de los terrenos, etc

[@vaquero7x]

It was in central Mexico where the saddle head ( horn) was invented and not in Spain. The new re designed saddle is what gave birth to the mexican vaquero. The lazo techniques were born in central Mexico and these techniques have spread to many places of the world. Spaniards and Mexicans are brothers by blood, language and religion forever

[@janusgates2589]

Nope, wrong , the Celts invented the saddle and the Romans copied the idea and it was brought early on to the province of Hispania.

[@vaquero7x]

@@janusgates2589 do you mean the saddle or the roping saddle heads (horns). It is believed the saddle was invented in Asia perhaps China or Mongolia but without a roping horn

[@themechanic7732]

@@janusgates2589 wrong

[@newvibes789]

@@janusgates2589 He's talking about the SADDLE HORN!!!!!

[@douglas_fir]

@@vaquero7x No. Horse and cattle domestication came from the Indo-Europeans/Indo-Iranians in the steppes of Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia. cattle herding and horse riding is 100 percent an Indo-European thing, of which the Spanish are heavily descended from.

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

Qué viva el Españoles y Español Vaqueros Caballeros y Cazadores igualmente

[@janusgates2589]

Que viva a Grecia Minoana que trajo esta cultura a la peninsula Iberiana en la edad de Bronze!!

[@PC.27]

@@janusgates2589 Jajajaja. No... Los celtas e íberos ya tenían ganado. Try again.

[@MaxMax-me5gv]

@@janusgates2589 lol payaso

[@eqschuster]

@@PC.27 ganado que llegó de medio oriente 👀👍

[@PC.27]

@@eqschuster Será la ganadería, en todo caso. En la península ibérica ha habido toros desde antes de Mesopotamia ;)

[@jasoncampos2933]

It was the Mexican vaquero! Viva mexico

[@Merry19ss]

Not , España de sus vaquerías manejadas por vaqueros

[@jasoncampos2933]

@@Merry19ss you gonna tell me that españoles saben de la soga? Las jineteadas de toros bravos? Ect, o si supiste de la origin de la silla vaquera verdad?

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

Viva España! 🇪🇸 Long Live Spain! 🇪🇸

[@stuglenn1112]

Wrong. The Spanish, Ponce de Leon, first brought cattle to Florida well before they arrived in the southwest.

[@Ashmoke]

I wish I was born between 1500 and and 1750

[@GranSinderesis]

Why?

[@pedrofr1434]

No, you don't

[@buffalointernationalnetwor6122]

You all Americans also have Spanish blood

[@blsi4037]

Some do.

[@mischelle9530]

Why does it say. WILL NOT BE LEFT TO ANOTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE FOR THREE THOUSAND YEAR THE ROMANS HAVE HANDED OUR LAND OVER TO THE ENTIRE WORLD THEY’RE TRYING THAT TODAY BUT WILL FAIL THIS TIME. WE DO HAVE A PROMISE AND GOD WILL KEEP HIS PROMISE.

[@douglas_fir]

Not really. I certainly do because my dad is Puerto Rican (from what I can garner, more than likely an unbroken patrilineal line leading back to the founding of the island), however my mom is a full blooded European-American, is 100% insular Celtic(British & Irish) as well as Danish. So I'm personally a minority among my fellow European-Americans has far as having Spanish admixture. Pretty much all of them are of a mixed insular Celtic and Germanic stock.

[@pasofino9583]

@@douglas_firyour PR you know there some African somewhere.

[@johanreillo8403]

@@douglas_firSpain is in Europe and when he says Americans he is referring to Latin Americans not gringos

[@jaypay8954]

This is very inaccurate they were NOT spanish they were Mexican. The spanish horseman that arrived were NOT Vaqueros . Mexicans taught Americans how to use vaquero gear etc.. The chaps, lasso, Mexican sombrero, boots and rodeo like bull riding is Mexican culture. The spanish only brought their cattle ranching skills and horsemanship but the Vaquero/Cowboy today is purely of Mexican origin. Mexican are NOT spanish. Yes just like Americans have english ancestry we Mexicans have Spanish ancestry however vaqueros are not from Spain and the term vaquero is a Mexican word. Horseman are different than vaqueros/cowboys. All of europe had horseman. By the time Americans were moving to Texas they met Mexicans NOT spaniards. This is a white washing of history(RACIST IMO) so that Americans dont have to admt that they just copied Mexicans and stole the land of the Original cowboys. Absolutely appalling. And for the record there were no spanish after 300 years they were Mexican born. LORD HAVE MERCY!!!

[@1988vikable]

Yes there was a batle with the spaniard and new spain citizens and some american wanting to colonize Texas with Americans. New spain citizens were second class citizens and didnt consider themselves to be "Spanish" anymore the spaniard in new spain were peninsular spaniards and they were not born in new spain. Criolls,Mestizo, Native and some black slaves kicked the peninsula spaniards out of New Spain and formed Mexico. And if you didnt know spaniards werent vaqueros that was a poor mestizo mans job it was work beneath a spaniard. New spain had caste system and slavery which is why Mexican culture is very different to Spanish and why the Vaquero is from Mexico and not Spain. Its called Mexican identity. Just like the American Isdentity that rejected the english due to their abuses.American acomplishments and innovation cant be called English as they were not english anymore they were American.

[@1988vikable]

@@TheMariepi3 Yes I agree. The vaquero is a specific type of Mexican horseman that evolved from Spanish and Native American influence over hundreds of years in what is now today Mexico.The spanish horseman were also called "Jinete" and "caballeros". For example the lasso was something invented by Indigenous people in Mexico and the rodeo as well performed by the "charro" where the Vaquero/cowboy evolved from. The reason you see a lot of lasso throughout the world is becasue the vaquero has had worldwide influence the lasso isn't originally from Cuba or Chile they just adopted it that's why so many now look like the vaquero/cowboy today. Look at Australia they have adopted the exact cowboy/vaquero gear Just like America has. Ecuador now has a their own rodeo however that's not originally from their culture becasue the rodeo is from Mexican origin/tradition.

[@S4v3_w3st]

⁠just like Spain influenced the American cowboy but the American cowboy dressed different etc. it was a job and that didn’t change anywhere it went. If anything Mexicans copy Americans they wear Stetson blue jeans cowboy belts etc all made by America. And they totally ripped off German folk and called it mariachi… also Americans didn’t steal anythign being a cowboy was a job? And they didn’t wear sombrero they wore the hats they always wore them Stetson made the style in 1840. They dressed nothing like Mexicans other than some wore chaps. Everything is influenced nothing was stolen. Mexicans changed nothing from Spain they dressed the exact same. lol cry harder.

[@covidisascam4556]

They were Mexican vaqueros 🇲🇽.

[@janusgates2589]

Guess again, the art of cattle ranching came to the Iberian peninsula from Minoan Greece in the Bronze age. The Minoans invented bullfighting or in their case leaping, and must have brought the art directly or from other Greek colonists or traders to Spain. Look at the Ancient Palaces at Knossos, youll find some very familiar scenes of bulls and men. Thats where we get the tale of the Minotaur.

[@janusgates2589]

And it came to Greece from Egypt, the Egyptians domesticated the cow.

[@janusgates2589]

Ever seen the Goddess Hator, the egyptian cow Goddess, she predates all this squabbling kids.

[@douglas_fir]

@@janusgates2589 LMAO you're both dead wrong. This all originates from the pontic Caspian steppe, AKA Ukraine. This is 100% an INDO-EUROPEAN tradition not an African or middle eastern tradition, nor does it belong to just one European ethnicity.

[@JohnWick_897]

@@douglas_fir cry hard 😉

[@newvibes789]

You are all wrong numnuts!!! This video is about the Spanish. Sorry it wasn't the Greeks, or Egyptians, or Ukrainians who came to TEXAS!!!! It was the freaking SPANISH!!!!! Hello!!! While the other Europeans and Africans were back at home with a thumb up their rear ends, the Spanish were establishing a new way of life in the NEW WORLD!!! It is the legacy of the SPANISH which lives on in TEXAS and in their proud descendants!!! Sorry guys history has already recorded what has happened and none of those others you mentioned are anywhere to be found!!! Better luck next time!!!!!!!

[@user-il5ju8et8h]

love the video

[@debbiecooper3661]

I love the Minnanites and Amish people.

[@9thGenerationCajun]

Who's a descendant? I'am a descendant of Gov Curbelo.

[@dannygonzalez8783]

9thGenerationCajun im not texan but im descendant of Agustin Olvera a californio

[@1988vikable]

There is some confusion here and im not surprised since America has always had this racial undertone when referencing the origins of anything. First of all what are Mexicans chopped liver??? Vaqueros are Mexican NOT spanish. They were called spanish horseman which is hardly unique to Spain, horseman are found almost in every country in europe actually any place that had horses had horseman NOT Vaqueros. The vaquero took 200-300 years to form in Mexico through innovation by that time They were Mexican NOT spanish anymore. Mexicans taught Americans the Vaquero ways NOT spanish. The white washing or european washing of Mexican tradition/culture is egregious. This false narrative of history is ridiculous and kind of racist. Mexicans invented the lasso, chaps, rodeo etc and it is a primal part of our identity through music and movies. Americans and other worldwide adopted the cowboy fashion/techniques. The Vaquero was influenced by the spanish horseman due to the european equestrianism but it is not from Spain its origin is from Mexico.

[@S4v3_w3st]

⁠just like Spain influenced the American cowboy but the American cowboy dressed different etc. it was a job and that didn’t change anywhere it went. If anything Mexicans copy Americans they wear Stetson blue jeans cowboy belts etc all made by America. And they totally ripped off German folk and called it mariachi… also Americans didn’t steal anythign being a cowboy was a job? And they didn’t wear sombrero they wore the hats they always wore them Stetson made the style in 1840. They dressed nothing like Mexicans other than some wore chaps. Everything is influenced nothing was stolen. Mexicans changed nothing from Spain they dressed the exact same. lol cry harder. Also they never adopted the Mexican style. You can look up photos of the American west vs Mexicans. If they wore chaps then that’s pretty much it

[@eldearibaesgey691]

Viva España y viva hispanoamérica

[@franciscojosecano2217]

cultura ANDALUSIA VIVA ANDALUSIA LIBRE y sobre to LIBRE

[@eldearibaesgey691]

ª

[@yastasemeolvido5986]

Real truth

[@mischelle9530]

Yasta Semeolvido real liars you mean going to be exiled and we won’t help them ever again.

[@mischelle9530]

Daniel 2.44“In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces,The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.” Going soon won’t be long now.

[@devilzaid6666]

Not at all, the Mexican vaquero culture was created in Mexico partially thanks to Spain when they conquered and brought many things of what makes a vaquero ( that they didn’t invent besides the boots ) not just because you ride a horse and have a hat you automatically become a vaquero 🤠 in that case maybe the Chinese were the first vaqueros by that logic

[@S4v3_w3st]

@@devilzaid6666​​⁠just like Spain influenced the American cowboy but the American cowboy dressed different etc. it was a job and that didn’t change anywhere it went. If anything Mexicans copy Americans they wear Stetson blue jeans cowboy belts etc all made by America. And they totally ripped off German folk and called it mariachi… don’t see y’all wearing sombreros y’all wear the western American style hats.

[@devilzaid6666]

@@S4v3_w3st you just confirmed you dont know anything about history at all, let me explain this, the very first cowboys were black, the black slaves in mexico and the ones fleeing from the us when mexico abolished slavery learnt how to work by vaqueros they teach them the way of living of a vaquero and they were called cowboys later on white americans started coming to mexico in the states that used to be mexico and they liked the way of living there and were called cowhand( not cowboy), and the cowboy hats design were made by mexicans the americans just folded those hats and all the clothing you see in cowboy movies were mostly brought from mexico and a lot of those characters were black people but in movies they appear as white cowboys, the whites started calling themselves cowboys stealing all the culture from the black people in the us

[@Kimchi-sh3dd]

How was the Texas Cattle industry impacted by the Spanish?

[@marlboroman2393]

Same way of life partner

[@newvibes789]

Go take a history class!!

[@danielhernandez-vo9zc]

The first Cowboys were Mexican/Spaniards

[@movie9600]

Americans last pure European natian😂😂😂. Other mexico, brazil, Venezuelan mostly mixed race

[@Ruisumi_migeru]

España la cuna de los verdaderos cowboy no os olvideis mexicanitos y gringitos 👍😜😜😜

[@diluglio7241]

Spaniards don’t even have boots and lassos nor chaparreras all that is thanks to Mexicans

[@Merry19ss]

Así es pero ellos dirán que son ellos los originales . Los originales son los Españoles ,sino ve en todo America continental existen vaqueros origen criollo español .Los Vaqueros nacieron en el tiempo del Imperio Español no después. En Argentina nacen los Vaqueros (Guacho) ,Chile Vaquero(Huaso), Perú Vaqueros ,Ecuador Vaqueros (Chagras ,Montubios y campesinos ) ,Colombia y Venezuela Vaqueros (Llaneras) etc etc. Todos estos se dieron por la cultura Española Criolla en todo el continente Americano, no por México ni EEUU. España es la cuna del Vaquero Original 🤠 🤠 🤠 Hasta el traje del Mariachi nace del Vaquero de Zalamanca Español.

[@Merry19ss]

@@diluglio7241 Los lazos de cuero son de origen Español ,con el cual manejaban al ganado vacuno .

[@marlboroman2393]

Mis antecedentes eran conquistadores españoles. El vaquero salio de el norte de mexico pero la raiz viene de andalucia. Alla vinieron mis ancestros

[@juilletdepierre163]

@@Merry19ss + wtf who ever says that Spanish invented cowboy culture is distorting history and making up huge lies. Lassos originated with Mexicans who adapted the Andalusian equipment to the Mexican environment

[@franciscojosecano2217]

spanish nou ANDALUSIAN yes

[@Xamry]

I wanna know how the Natives reacted to the first cow 😅

[@robdm9838]

Yall never heard of the Indo-europeans??

[@debbiecooper3661]

Buffalo would of stomped the cows to death

[@debbiecooper3661]

You place nubian Egypt on promise land and a king .You will be destroyed......soon when you rise your king's