How the Irish Created the American West

[@noelryan6341]

The Irish term for a Boy is 'Buachaill', composed of two elements 'bua' for cattle and 'chaill' for herd, meaning boys were tasked with caring for the clan's cattle herds. Much the same as the responsibility given to East African Masai boys taking the herds out of the 'Krall' for grazing daily. It was natural for young Irish men from a rural background to work in that role in America. Incidentally, the Irish language word for a trail or road is 'Bo-thar', meaning cattle path.

[@billbest9483]

My clan came from Sligo

[@johnnydawson7675]

The vocabulary translations are all wrong. Those words come from Mexico.

[@jaymaynes]

I was thinking the same thing. Very many of the 19th Century cowboys were Mexican.

[@LazerCatHelmet]

A very poorly known aspect of history. My maternal grandfathers parents lived on the reservation. One was Irish, the other Choctaw. Neither was welcome outside the reservation. At that time the irish where seen as subhuman, like the natives. There are reasons the irish were repressed after the british and french settlers founded enough local government. there is much more to american history than taught. I will say though, it has to do with the entities that wanted the land, and the history they would prefer. The etymology is very telling, and the irish roots are very deep. Good job on figuring out some of the irish roots. It goes much much deeper though. Deep enough to upset the apple cart.

[@karlbyrne6021]

@LazerCatHelmet. As a proud Irish man, I want to thank the choctaw people for the donation to the Irish famine relief fund, because of that money, many lives were saved. The decendes of those people are alive today because of the choctaw.

[@noelryan6341]

"Only the poor care for the poor"!

[@kirkneff2247]

And the cowboys that weren’t Irish were Black.

[@edgemonsiteworksllc3369]

@@kirkneff2247 I am a cowboy. There weren’t any black cowboys. Not till after the 1900’s and very few at that.

[@edgemonsiteworksllc3369]

You are nuts buddy. Most of the settlers were Dutch. German and Scandinavian.

[@brianmacc1934]

They shud try creating ireland , be better-off