Why the first US cowboys were black

Historians estimate that one in four cowboys were African American, though you’d never guess because the conventional Hollywood image of a cowboy is a white man. Black cowboys have been written out of history, along with the original cattle-raising Native Americans and Mexican vaqueros who taught them. So what are the real origins of cowboy culture in the US? And is there more to modern black cowboy culture than Old Town Road and Lil Nas X? Josh Toussaint-Strauss talks to some of the Black riders who are keeping the history of Black cowboy culture alive
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[@shannonbloom4133]

Caballeros existed in North America before any other "cowboys". Horses were used to establish supply routes and move supplies all throughout California. In the late 1700s and early 1800s. Spain and Mexico owned, farmed and ran horses and cattle in the western territories. Black and white cowboys modeled themselves after caballeros.

[@theGuardian]

This is true. Thanks for pointing it out! And many Black cowboys learnt their trade under the tutelage of the vaqueros and cattle-raising Native Americans. Black cowboys were certainly not the first cattle ranchers in the US, but they were the first people to be termed as 'cowboys' - Josh

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@@theGuardian vaqueros which are caballeros is Spanish for cowboys

[@maxpinter2551]

Therefore, the first cowboys in North America were white. The concept of a cowboy was imported to the americas by the Spanish. Buckaroo is a deformed translation of Vaquero, which is cowboy in Spanish. Spain is in Europe. Spaniards are white. Stop racism.

[@MissDominicaStrong]

@@dalibad1165 🥴

[@MissDominicaStrong]

@@maxpinter2551 ok but the English term didn’t come into use until Black ppl came to the fray stop being obtuse.

[@frankallison2405]

The first Cowboys were Mexican. Come on. Mexicans brought the culture to New Mexico in 1598.

[@jeremiahamughmun7775]

Vaqueros comes from the Arabic term Baqarah for Cow. This term was used by the Africans/Black Conquistadors who came with the Spainish to America from the very first ships. These first African Americans had a long history of cattle herding in Senegambia and Mali. These slaves and freedmen were the first cowboys in America

[@arontorres309]

@@jeremiahamughmun7775 BOY WHAT ,😂😂😂 Arabs yes , not Africans , ain’t no horse native to sub Saharan Africa 😂😂😂

[@jeremiahamughmun7775]

@@arontorres309 the Namib is native to subsaharan Africa. So obviously you don’t know what your talking about. As far as cowboys are concerned. Herdsmen have been in Africa since before civilization reached the Americas

[@arontorres309]

@@jeremiahamughmun7775 the first cowboys in the Americas were Mexican , I don’t get why you’re trying to blackwash culture 😂😂😂

[@jeremiahamughmun7775]

@@arontorres309 Mexicans didn’t exist when cowboys arrived in the Americas. There were only Amerindians, Europeans and Africans. 🤷🏿‍♂️. Some of those Africans were enslaved. So enslaved Africans like Fulani herdsmen were put to work herding cattle. A skill they had before coming to America. Like it or not these are the facts. Cows aren’t even indigenous to the Americas. The came with the greedy Spanish and Black conquistadors.

[@jesse977]

Mexicans were the first Cowboys called Vaqueros. Vaca means cow in Spanish. Not only that but we have Charros a fancier more skilled type of cowboy

[@HeadhuntexGamer]

Spanish people, not Mexicans. Modern Mexicans are not the same when Europeans arrived

[@jesse977]

@@HeadhuntexGamer The Spanish brought Cattle and horses to the new world, Mexicans were the ones who first developed the Cowboy culture in the Americas.

[@OchoaPrideMex4Life]

Literally the Spanish became mexicans...a native American and white blood mixture.. thats why you see some white mexicans that have a brothers that are brown.. a mixture of thos ancient people..

[@valour4494]

Spaniards were the first vaqueros, not Mexicans.

[@andyvazquez6956]

@@valour4494 lol wrong foo

[@wifebeater817]

Nah the real OGs are the Vaqueros puro Zacatecas

[@origineeman6421]

Nah? Ever seen any Baltimore "Bike Life" videos? The horse stunt riding spirit still runs strong in Black Americans.

[@origineeman6421]

@M Try watching the "Black Rodeo" videos.

[@MONDIZY01]

@@origineeman6421 about 1% of black people own horses ya arguing over something your irrelevant to 🤣 I own horses and I’m Mexican never have I seen any black people around where I live with a horse lol

[@blackmaurice7135]

@@MONDIZY01 Houston Texas, we ride everyday.

[@brandoncarter5034]

You do know those ancient large heads found in Mexico are older than the Mexican history ?

[@GrimReaper-yo8dm]

The first cowboys were indigenous Mexican people.

[@GypsyHarlow]

White people never drove cattle in Europe until the Mexicans did...

[@DanClark-uz3ji]

No lol all mexicans back thin and now are more spanish.. you don't see americans going around saying we are native

[@epope98]

No they were Spanish, it was brought over from Spain later after the Mexico independence was it was Mexicans that were the first. But the roots go back to Spain

[@DanClark-uz3ji]

@epope98 that's like saying the Americans in the us are the original even tho french british and Germany came over

[@DanClark-uz3ji]

@epope98 would be no mexico without Spain. And mexicans have little to none native DNA

[@abrahanrodriguez9003]

The first cowboys where the Mexicans, everyone after copied their style.

[@abrahanrodriguez9003]

​@Johnny Five no, the Mexican I’m referring to are the indigenous and mestizo (with is a mix of indigenous and Spanish) who are the majority of Mexico. True that Spanish brought the horse’s but they where not doing the hard work the real Mexican cowboys were doing. So no it wasn’t the European Spanish that were the cowboys. And as for ruling class. Again it is the mestizo people who run a rule Mexico, I’m not saying they are better than the European Spanish but the majority of Mexico is mestizo, and Europe Spanish is the minority. So it makes sense mestizo run more the country. My source? I Have family that hold office in politics in Mexico, and others what are very well off financially, and they are not European Spanish. They are mestizo (a mix of indigenous and Spanish). As am I.

[@1988vikable]

Thank you!! Americans, SPanish other hispanics and now black people claim its their. SMH

[@felipeperez2991]

The vaquero culture has its roots in Mexico. People do not know that the native Aztecs were a noble race of people who were given special privileges by the Spanish because of their help in the conquest of the Americas and were considered royal subjects of the King and Queen of Spain. Mexicans were given the right to ride horses and own land and were given the right to colonize the north of Mexico which is where they developed the vaquero culture. This happens in the 1500’s-1600s about 100 years before the Pilgrims even set foot on the American continent. The town my parents come from in Mexico was established in 1535.

[@mamidiop1298]

It seems that you are only bothered by the black cowboys claiming their history. This energy is not seen when the white cowboys are displaying ? Smh

[@berthastravelingtips8872]

@@mamidiop1298 white guys never said they were the first

[@abdulazizclare9545]

New Seville in Jamaica was established in 1510 and had ranching long before Mexico. Villa de la Vega founded in 1543 was the second Spanish settlement in Jamaica. Tainos, Africans and Andalusians had a vaquero tradition before Mexico. Jamaica Hispanola 1494-1655 English took Jamaica after. Jamaica had Spanish Longhorns long before Texas. Last Jamaican Criollo cattle not seen after 1945. Jamaica Paso horse was no more after 1790. Mexico is not the origin of vaquero culture in the Americas. That's the Caribbean .

[@felipeperez2991]

@@abdulazizclare9545 I’m pretty sure the Romans had “Ranches” also. There are gauchos in Argentina and Brazil. The English in New England raised cattle as well . We are talking about the origins of the traditional Vaquero / Cowboy in North America. Vaquero culture is the culture of Mexico. The rodeo or Charreria, as it is called in Mexico is the National Sport of Mexico.

[@abdulazizclare9545]

@@felipeperez2991 The Romans had cattle but it's the Moors that came with Doma Vaquera style in Spain today. That's men on horse back herding cattle, equipment, ranch system breed of cattle and horses all Moorish. Gaucho is new in the Americas as the Spanish took the Caribbean before getting to South America. Yes the English had cattle but it was a pen system not open range. New Spain which Mexico was a part of took parts of vaquero culture from the Caribbean. Jamaica was a part of New Spain called Santiago. We had Spanish churches, ports, forts , farms, Spanish livestock, native villages and Spanish towns. Cortés gets to México in 1519 by that time the Spanish have taken Jamaica years before killed its Natives ( Tainos). Aztecs and Mayan see conquest later. California, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and other regions had been Mexico so vaquero culture was there before it was USA. So vaqueros moved up from Mexico into North America. But vaqueros had already been in the Caribbean. As Mexico did not fall under Colonial Spain before the West Indies. We found in Jamaica Spanish Longhorns, Spanish horses and sheep bones DNA test shows they are 510 years old. Let's see if Mexico has that old find of Spanish livestock. Jamaica Criollo cattle breed older than Mexican Criollos. Jamaica Spanish horses older than your Azteca or Criollo horses. Jamaica Vaqueros started long before Mexico. Even Cuban vaqueros older than Mexico.

[@jakristarchives]

The Spaniards were the first cowboys in America. It was the vaqueros from Mexico - originally from Spain - who brought the cowboy culture in areas now controlled by the United States of America.

[@mrbrainbob5320]

Exactly

[@alexjames2328]

No, it wasn't "latinos" they were Spanards.

[@derekflores1250]

@@alexjames2328 source please

[@alexjames2328]

@@derekflores1250 Google vaquero. Originated in the Iberian peninsula and brought to the new world by Spanards where then it spread like wildfire and adopted by everyone.

[@derekflores1250]

@@alexjames2328 alright mate

[@danielwhite1233]

The first cowboys were Mexican, after the civil war many freed men went west and took work up with the cattle trains roving west, cowboys were egalitarian

[@gman8132]

Absolutely right. Some black freemen went West for work after slavery. They were certainly not the first cowboys and certainly not the majority.

[@Zerowolf760]

The 1st cowboys were spanish who taught the native mexicans how to cowboy

[@limelife7457]

Black people has to take something even though the Original Cowboy were Mexican

[@jesusvazquez2467]

@@Zerowolf760 no. Spain didnt created the cowboys. Even in Spain there arent records of Cowboys before the Americas

[@otycloaiza3291]

@@Zerowolf760 No, native mexicans invented charreria = cowboy culture.

[@NoName-gp3zr]

The first cowboys were MEXICAN

[@andreperry7995]

Black men

[@NoName-gp3zr]

@@andreperry7995 Nope it started in north Mexico

[@andreperry7995]

@@NoName-gp3zr Mexico didn't have slaves working on the farms man.

[@NoName-gp3zr]

@@andreperry7995 that’s not what a cowboy man and there is many farms in north mexico I used to live in one and worked with cows everyday

[@jesse977]

First cowboys were Mexican called Vaqueros. Vaca means cow Vaquero means Cowman or Cowboy

[@matthewmann8969]

Some were also Amerindian and Mestizo too

[@amiciprocul8501]

Obviously. Nobody is denying anything, we're just trying to bring to light facts out here.

[@tragicallyhoney]

Most lol

[@mikebobson2768]

Cowboys originated in Mexico/Spain

[@jordibarcelona7632]

True

[@jordibarcelona7632]

@@mikebobson2768 true

[@nandochavez4546]

The only american thing of "cowboys" is the name

[@Dirt-McGerk]

'Cowboy' as a trade originated from the Spanish. Pioneering cattlemen of Spain set up enormous spreads in Mexico and later the southern states during the colonial era, long before any anglophone had ever thought about venturing west. These were (and some still are) managed by teams of Vaqueros, a.k.a. cowboys.

[@silkmoney9460]

Yeah and before the Mexican/mixture of indians there were the original indians in tribes who was cowboys way before Cortez and the Spaniards tool over Spain which is know as Mexico today

[@thecowboypreacher6568]

Very true, A lot of those hired cowboys or vaqueros in mexico and the spanish influnced terriorites were of mixed heritage, many were actually African, mestizo, and indigenous as well as, mexico did import enlaved africans.

[@raulvaldes270]

@@silkmoney9460really? So there were cows and horses before the Spaniard brought it to America? Are you sure ?

[@silkmoney9460]

@raulvaldes270 homie there was lions in america at the time

[@silkmoney9460]

@raulvaldes270 homie we been had horse over here cows not a real animal

[@Eris4ever72]

Please change the title of this video to : “Why SOME of the first US cowboys were black” As a Mexican-American and a Norteña don’t disparage my culture and give some other ethnic/racial group ownership of it. It’s disgraceful and misleading.

[@eg2official132]

Nope title is true there were black people here before the Spaniards look up the Moors

[@ProDoc18]

@@eg2official132 you're wrong. the first American cowboys were Mexicans.

[@sabrionford4121]

@@ProDoc18 or just look up the moors. Because you my friend have no idea what your talking bout

[@Eris4ever72]

@@eg2official132 The Moors have nothing to do with American Cowboy culture other then the fact that they were the inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula (in EUROPE for those who don’t know there geography) during the Middle Ages. Vaquero/Cowboy culture, however, as we’ve come to know it in AMERICA today is not attached to a racial construct but it can’t be ignored that it’s origins did begin and were incubated from an ethnic standpoint (you can argue that here is where the Moors had some influence albeit tenuously as the moors helped formulate Hispanic culture). That said, there is no arguing the fact that Hispanic and Mexican culture (specifically the cultural influences of Northern Mexico) created the Cowboy. When the border crossed the South-West US territories there was already Mexican people occupying that land-descendants of the original criollos and mestizos who pushed past the Rio Grande River to take advantage of land grants in the kingdom of New Mexico. They were the first cowboys in America. PERIOD.

[@Eris4ever72]

@@sabrionford4121 or maybe you’re the one giving way too much credit to the Moors?

[@PhillMyasup]

“Cowboys” is Mexican colloquium: Here’s a little history lesson, the cowboy played an important role during the era of U.S. westward expansion. Though they originated in Mexico, American anglo-Saxons mimic the styles and the culture from the Mexican rancheros by created a style and reputation what is seen in today’s American culture. Vaqueros: In 1519, shortly after the Spanish arrived in the Americas, they began to build ranches to raise cattle and other livestock. Horses were imported from Spain and put to work on the ranches. Mexico’s native cowboys were called vaqueros, which comes from the Spanish word vaca (cow). Vaqueros were hired by ranchers to tend to the livestock and were known for their superior roping, riding and herding skills. By the early 1700s, ranching made its way to present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and as far south as Argentina. When the California missions started in 1769, livestock practices were introduced to more areas in the West. During the early 1800s, many English-speaking settlers migrated to the West and adopted aspects of the vaquero culture, including their clothing style and cattle-driving methods. Cowboys came from diverse backgrounds and included African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexicans and settlers from the eastern United States and Europe. Now here’s a little history lesson that you didn’t know but now you know.

[@tracypatton1503]

Loved it♥️♥️

[@maxpinter2551]

Cowboys originated in Spain in the middle ages. They are a European concept.

[@PhillMyasup]

@@maxpinter2551 Although the origin of cattle is European, the mass fields and grains produced were an American Complex. Europe's geography does not match a vest Plain where cows were able to be heavily productive. It was until the colonization of the Americas, particularly in Mexico, that the cattle industry flourish.

[@abdulazizclare9545]

History lesson Cortés gets to México in 1519 by that time Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola have Spanish livestock and herders from Andalusia and Canary Islands. Ranching is open range by 1510 in the Caribbean Colonies of Spain. Mexicans can't be the first ranchers or vaqueros in the Americas. Moors in Spain started the doma vaquera style of today's Spain. Jamaica had vaqueros Spanish cattle, sheep and horses by 1508 Mexico had nothing like that. Aztecs and Mayans did not see cattle and horses tell Cortés. Colón gets to the Caribbean 1492 Spanish settlments and settlers begin. Mexico has not seen Europeans or their livestock.

[@adrianr4095]

@@abdulazizclare9545 this is about the first cowboys/vaqueros in the USA. Not the Americas. Mexicans were in fact the first cowboys in the southwestern states of the US.

[@NoNo-ng9sl]

This segment is devisive because I remember clearly being taught as a kid that the Spaniards brought ranching into the Southwest. Once land owners mixed with the native populations, creating a new class of Mestizo/Catsizo Mexicans, they began acquiring land. The "vaquero" is cowboy in Spanish. This isn't to diminish what ADOS/black Americans brought to the ranching culture. But this was a commonly known part of history in Spanish America. It's splitting some fine hairs that vaqueros weren't "cowboys" by the English name.

[@thecharm5868]

I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the term “cowboys” & a lot of the culture. Not saying that we was the first on horses

[@indiee4971]

A lot of so called African Americans BEEN HERE. A lot of our people been here before so called slavery. A lot of us are native to the Americas already.

[@NoNo-ng9sl]

@@indiee4971 FWIW, I'm not Mexican. And this was a strictly white guilt segment, bypassing the entire history of ranchero/vaquero/cowboy culture and convinently starting when white Americans came into these territories. You went into a different direction, which I won't be arguing. Only to say I don't dismiss the contributions of ADOS into ranching culture. But it's dismissive and insulting to the Mexican people. Who were of mixed indigenous and most likely some were already of mixed black ancestry as well. Vicente Guerrero was the first black and Indian president of Mexico. But this is why I say, this is divisive, and I'm not a fan of what this did.

[@PlayWaves1]

The first Spanish horse ranching in the new world was actually in modern day FLORIDA not Mexico. Vaquero's has nothing to do with race. It descends from horse-riding traditions in Spain and Portugal. Most of the original land owners in new Spain and later Mexico were of Spanish descent so I don't why you said land ownership only happened after mixing with natives.

[@NoNo-ng9sl]

@@PlayWaves1 for starters, this segment is focused on race. Second, the Spanish took ranching almost everywhere they could in Latin America. I mentioned those countries above. And last, the modern Southwestern cowboy is what is being discussed......Florida isn't in the West. What you're saying is true, but I didn't gloss over it on purpose. The landownership was important, because the Spanish had a caste system in place. Who owned land, and can herd cattle in new Spain was a component into how the Southwestern cowboy was born.....I'm confused why you think that shouldn't be mentioned.

[@sbbperson]

The title of the video is the first "US" cowboys. It is talking about American cowboys,

[@waxmaster-c]

America is USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba, Greenland and lots more. The US has hijacked the word "America". Every time someone says "America" or "American" they think of USA and it's not really correct.

[@Ponchitograndito]

First u.s. cowboys were Mexican not black

[@trisin]

@@Ponchitograndito please learn to read. It says American, not Mexican 🙄

[@Ponchitograndito]

@@trisin don't be ignorant u fool Mexicans were in America called vaquero literally translates cowboy through all West and Midwest that includes Texas. so no, black people were not the first cowboys I get it's black history month and y'all like to rewrite history and claim to invent everything but my culture history is already etched in stone.

[@Ponchitograndito]

@@trisin vaquero literally translates to cowboy Mexican vaqueros were all through the west and Midwest before this was america...black people trying to take credit when that is not theres to claim

[@nynty5]

The irony of this whole situation is that be the Spanish or Mexican they weren’t even acknowledged in the cowboy tradition in America. Mexican or Spanish they were associated with a different nation. The point of this video is for the term the English term cowboy and its connotative value

[@waxmaster-c]

You mean the US. Mexico is in America. North America to be specific.

[@nynty5]

@@waxmaster-c I lived in Mexico and speak fluent Spanish and they refer to US Citizens as American but if we need to deteriorate into know semantics so be it

[@original_USA_cowgirl]

@@waxmaster-c theres three countries in NORTH AMERICA: canada, AMERICA/USA, and mexico. so America is coorect. however if you read the title it simply say U.S as in united states...

[@waxmaster-c]

@@original_USA_cowgirl I know. All I was saying is using the word America or American *only* for the US is a lil weird to me when there are other countries in North and South America. Why aren't they labeled American? In Europe, every single country is European. It would be weird if let's say Germany was the only country we called Europe.

[@original_USA_cowgirl]

@@waxmaster-c American are the people from the country AMERICA. So those terms are correct. That's like saying people who refer to themselves as Mexicans or calling their country Mexico is weird considering that we are all within the same continent but it's not since we are in different countries yk?

[@fel1xxpubg972]

😂 thats a fkn cap. How can they be the first Vaqueros when the US didn’t own any cows? 😂 if it wasn’t for the spaniards and mexicans, the US wouldn’t have owned cows back than.

[@8MoneyIzmyMission8]

They were the first UNITED STATES cowboys.

[@fel1xxpubg972]

@@8MoneyIzmyMission8 how can they be the first when Mexico had cows and horses before the US 😂? The first people from the US where from Texas which where still mexican-americans. Cowboy derived from the word vaquero but somehow they tried saying it meant something else😂 Just look at all the Vaqueros from the US all of that clothing is culture appropriation cause this is our culture and the spaniards. But the look of a Vaquero came from a Mexican.

[@elroyjetson6380]

@@fel1xxpubg972 cows are now indigenous to America. You are not going back far enough in history to fully understand

[@user-tx8ev6tt6b]

@@fel1xxpubg972 they were actually native and hispanic . Only 1 in 4 cowboys were blk. so , once again numbers don't lie.

[@user-tx8ev6tt6b]

@@fel1xxpubg972 ctfu, lame O.

[@gilbertflores6218]

The first cowboys where Mexican!

[@oj4499]

The name cowboy was black

[@alexandraolvera5903]

@dylan murphy No they were Mexican Mestizo, they were mix race of Indigenous and Spaniard descendant. Majority of Mexico belongs to the Mestizo race.

[@oyster4172]

@dylan murphy yes that why the first vaqueros are spanish/mexican and or a mix of both cause the majority of us have spanish blood

[@MONDIZY01]

@@oj4499 ya can call it guac but I got some news for you it’s still guacamole & although you call it cowboys it’s still vaquero. Yea we were first don’t hate appreciate 🤣

[@anomie1415]

@dylan murphy no, Spaniards took the concept to Mexico but were Mexicans the ones who developed all the cowboy culture to what is and we know now. Not Spaniards, not black people neither white people but Mexicans.

[@comradepolarbear6920]

I thought it was mexicans who did it first

[@mrbrainbob5320]

It was

[@gummy5343]

It was

[@gummy5343]

They were the true cowboys

[@therapvault2375]

Yes it was the Mexican who were the true real O.G COWBOYS everyone else are just CULTURE vultures

[@derekflores1250]

@Blue side yeah the first US cowboys

[@importantname]

Oh you mean Mexicans

[@derekflores1250]

Naw naw naw naw naw, the first US cowboys

[@BoxingTrainingCA]

@Derek Flores Texas and whole Southwest were part of New Spain (Modern day Mexico) and Mexicans before independence were considered Spaniards too, later with Mexican Independence the first Cowboys in Texas were Mexicans before white-anglo settlers move to Texas and illegaly declared "independence"

[@derekflores1250]

@@BoxingTrainingCA I know, I’m talking about how they were the first US cowboys, we were the original cowboys, Mexican cowboys is what I meant

[@derekflores1250]

@E we were the originals, we created it, black people were the first U.S cowboys. As in the first cowboys in the United States, not the original cowboys And by we I meant Mexicans

[@derekflores1250]

@E of that made any sense to you

[@p.p4013]

the truth is vaquero culture came from Spain, and in Mexico evolve to what we know today vaqueros were mestizos(part native, part spaniard) and spaniards, in the south and central Mexico they were called Charros because how they dressed, and in the north they were called vaqueros, Americans adopted the vaquero culture from mexicans living in northen states when those states become part of the USA, they where amazed of how they ride horses and how they controll cattle. also mexicans had the best horses for that porpuse because Spain was conquered by arabs for 800 years specially Andalucia in south Spain and they had hot blood horses who they breed whith very little cold blood horses producing mainly pure blood horses that could run for longer distances and where faster than northen europe horses. MEXICANS DIND'T STOLE COWBOY CULTURE FROM SPAIN, WE INHERITE THAT AS WE INHERITE PRE COLOMBIAN TRADITIONS, ITS LIKE YOU INHERITE TRACES FROM YOUR DAD AND YOUR MOM. Americans were the ones who copied the culture but its fine its part of who we are as humans, we adapt and evolve. its fine to be proud of your roots and be black, but don't try to rewrite history, and steal other people culture.

[@Эдуардо.Фигеиредо]

In Brazil we call it "Vaqueiro" and Cowboy.

[@That_Bolim]

Spain brought the cattle and the horses but Mexicans develop the culture the term vaquero was used towards native & mixed native Mexicans that did they work Mexicans develop the culture Spain just introduced the items

[@too1508]

Which natives? Anywho some natives were black ya know, just food for thought.

[@Akiravill]

@@too1508 why do you guys love saying “some were black you know” but you have no way to prove that. The natives here WERENT BLACK 😂

[@georgefreemon2935]

@@That_Bolim Wrong, cowboy culture is cattle hurding in which spaniards brought, as with most the culture surrounding it. First recorded vaqueros were Spaniards as well. You also have to account that the modern cowboy culture is mixed with practically Spanish, Mexican, and Northern European settlers.

[@heidyalvarado6017]

The first US cowboys were not black. They were infact Mexican Americans. They were around way before black or white cowyboys.

[@oj4499]

The name cowboy was not for Mexicans

[@heidyalvarado6017]

@@oj4499 NO but the actual first cowboys were.

[@oj4499]

Us black people made cowboys and lakers famous

[@heidyalvarado6017]

@@oj4499 If you mean Dallas cowboys sure. But actually cowboys were in the southwest were Mexican. It was the spanish that introduced horses and cattle to the americas.

[@vatolocosforever803]

@@oj4499 the word cowboy, it's just a translation for vaquero

[@DominoChild]

I hope with upcoming films like The Harder They Come we get to see more alternative cowboy narratives.

[@dfpolitowski2]

Nice to see a side of US history, I've never seen before. Goes to show how the movie/media industry can shape our thinking.

[@joshythehand2960]

I live 45 minutes from ft.smith.. been to the bass Reeves section of the museum.. even tried his hat in when no one was looking... and he was by far the baddest man in the old west. As a marshal he tracked down thousands. Even his own son. Was in over 300 gun fights. So feared that gangs would turn themselves in instead of face his wrath.. knowing they would be hung lol..turned themselves in to their own death!! That's how feared he was. He was basically the actual inspiration for rooster cogburn. In the books rooster is even from ft.smith.. like bass really was.

[@James-vk5ov]

Ikr. Its amazing how people easily believe every video that gets posted youtube.

[@original_USA_cowgirl]

right. thats the point that everybody is missing...

[@Akiravill]

No this is black washed history, trying to erase my people’s history and black wash it. It’s disgusting

[@original_USA_cowgirl]

@@Akiravill what's disgusting is you and your people are trying to take something that has absolutely nothing to do with you and make it about u. The definition of a USA COWBOY which is what a Hollywood cowboy portrays has nothing to do with y'all (besides ranching and herding) ik u want to feel important but this is not the time to display your racism rn.

[@califas8059]

Spaniards brought the concept,Mexicans turned it into what it is today,so strong it’s part of their culture,traditions and celebrations.

[@TheLosrodri]

The first cowboys on American soil were all Mexicans - aka “the vaqueros”. The wealthy land-owning class that took over after Texas defeated Mexico (including territories corresponding to states north of TX eg OKlahoma) got rid of as many Mexicans as they could once the war was over but kept the vaqueros, who were the only ones with the technical know-how to help the ranchers manage their vast numbers of cattle. The generation of American vaqueros who subsequently inherited the knowledge from the Mexican ones were the first “cowboys”, and it included both black and white men.

[@diegomartinez6988]

If black people were the first vaqueros then Mexicans were the first blues and rap artist. 👍

[@diegomartinez6988]

@@randyboyd2704 Wrong facts it was 2nd. Vicente Guerrero one of our founding fathers

[@DC_R]

What's the difference between ANAHUAC and what is known as MEXICO.

[@diegomartinez6988]

@@DC_R anahiac was the part where they lived closer to the water

[@diegomartinez6988]

@@DC_R anhuac i think thats what they called the valley where the lived. Why?

[@diamondeubanks6084]

It says why AMERICAS first cowboys were black not THE fist cowboys were black. We know the tradition came from Spain. that’s why it was worded that way.

[@Davi271281]

*The real cowboys are of Mexican origin!*

[@andino_usa3302]

NOOOOOO😡 THE FIRST COWBOYS WERE HISPANIC 🇪🇦🇲🇽

[@sbebb3762]

WRONG

[@andino_usa3302]

@@sbebb3762 cowboy culture comes from southern Spain vaquero! You guys became cowboys later when the anglo-americans took Texas the rest of the Southwest!

[@Sebastian-wr4ym]

@@sbebb3762 they are right. y'all like to claim everything since yall don't have culture. blackwashing at it finest

[@shinkisaragi4369]

Mexicans*

[@Akiravill]

@@sbebb3762 you really think black people were the first ones? 😂 they wouldn’t even know how to cattle if it wasn’t for the Spaniards

[@LuFX23]

Great video! Thanks for sharing knowledge 🙏

[@NoName-gp3zr]

The first cowboys were Latinos tho not black and white Americans :)

[@Fifis_edits]

Is anyone here in the comments paying attention to the purpose of this video? We’re talking about the linguistic origin of the word “cowboy” not who did what first.

[@Akiravill]

The word “cowboy” is just vaquero in Spanish. You can’t say you invented a word when it’s just a translation

[@VettsClass]

🎯🎯🎯🎯 the origin of the word is about enslaved black people.

[@cassandraacannon9297]

Do people read listen before they speak or react? The title says, First AMERICAN! Spaniards nor Mexicans riding US land were considered Americans. Tell me educated people, that you do understand the difference!

[@JC-bo4yv]

I’m Puerto Rican and I know that, do your homework.

[@calinfus80s]

Cowboys were a New Spain thing.

[@worldhubtv6496]

Sure, you do know cowboy culture originated by Mexicans tho From the sombreros to the boots to the riding skills

[@worldhubtv6496]

@Kfc manager way way back tho Around the Wild West era is when cowboy culture really exploded to the us It was the mesitzos that worked in ranches as “vaqueros” usually owned by rich Spaniards That cowboy style and cowboy culture really developed

[@melaniebustamante9778]

@@worldhubtv6496 Are you dumb? Us Mexicans were New Spain. We created the culture we started calling ourselves mexicans when we gain independence from Spain in the 1824. So we were the New Spain and now Mexico. Our ancestors are both conquistadores and the native warriors. We are a mix of race and culture.

[@ricardop9196]

@@melaniebustamante9778 shut up , your white. You remind me of those latinas that mock indigenous Mexicans and thank the conquistadors for giving you light skin.

[@ricardop9196]

Cowboys is black culture

[@MattMajcan]

its just kind of annoying how i only subscribed to this channel to get uk news and instead i only get racial topics from america. and then other countries make fun of americans for thinking we "make everything about us"

[@jawz2005]

British media is obsessed with America it's ridiculous. Our news is filled with either covid or American politics

[@primalconvoy]

What a narrow-minded and ethnocentric thing to write. The Guardian, like any self-respecting news source, covers both domestic AND international news/issues, etc. This is something that's always been, and always will continue. Next, you'll be complaining about the BBC's "World Service"...

[@jawz2005]

@@primalconvoy ethnocentric.......... which ethnicity exactly is the op to make him "ethnocentric" You do know "American" isn't an ethnicity right?

[@jrisner6535]

@@carlovesfam6069 you do make quite a spectacle of yourselves

[@Thrill_Hou]

The unsubscribe button is just there, mate. 👋 see ya

[@hiphipjorge5755]

Cowboys have existed in the Iberian world since the 1500s. Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and of course Mexico all have old ranching traditions brought over and changed from the Spanish and Portuguese settlers.

[@julesjade3135]

Yess but it became what it is now in Mexico. Ex: charros or mariachis. That is a mix of Spain and Aztecs! And the pilgrims got that culture from MEXICO, not Spain (:

[@alexanderboulton2123]

Did they change the title or something? I guarantee they said "First US cowboys."

[@edstar83]

You forgot *Uruguay*

[@edstar83]

@@julesjade3135 Is that why Mexicans speak Spanish and all their Surnames ate Spanish? because Aztec culture?::)

[@JamesPeach]

@@edstar83 Mexican Spanish isn't the same as Spanish from Spain. Not all their names are Spanish. You are incorrect on all of these.

[@pedanticperson1149]

"...so if you're getting your history from Hollywood..." Anyone doing that is beyond help though and does it really matter?

[@progressivelife841]

Does matter coz Hollywood lies a lot and needs to get exposed.

[@darth890]

The way that man talks at 0:59 is like he's either about to cry, cough or like he just inhaled a bug. Or all 3

[@vatolocosforever803]

The first cowboys were Mexicans

[@shinkisaragi4369]

The original cowboys were Mexicans

[@DGP406]

So everyone was black now, huh? Can't wait for the mental gymnastics to prove that Beethoven was also black.

[@lioness1963]

Beethoven was a black man / Facts ! I have the book on the original Beethoven ! Black people are the original people of the planet . We been here for millions and billions of years. We are the creators of everything. You can’t white wash the truth or debunk the truth.

[@DGP406]

@@lioness1963 AYO SO U B SAYIN

[@raikkus3745]

it reads on the thumbnail ''black enough'' What do you want to mean by that?

[@NoopsSinha]

Interesting video! Where can I find more photos like the ones used? Want to research more into this.

[@nutrient.-.7275]

Let’s not forget about the originals though where they all got it from.. the vaqueros

[@QueenLucifer777]

The reason Black People appear in every early civilization is because we were here first. We were not slaves either. The Moors of England, we appear in Mexico, Central America, South America, Latin America, Rome, Greece....so forth and so on.

[@jenny_de_la_bloca]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Neal_Rigga]

@@Tomas.Levantinoyour hair is more akin to any primate or animal for that matter on this planet. Think about that next you try to insult us. We were the first you all just gene spliced mutations.

[@CarolynAM54]

Thank you!

[@miguelhuerta4126]

Mestizo Mexicans were the first cowboys.

[@Vrailly]

I applaud the illumination brought by the video but not so much the intentionally divisive title

[@darryld6578]

Why is the TRUTH divisive?

[@skylerarroniz5686]

@@darryld6578 for starters black ppl didn’t invent cowboys. Mexicans did.

[@worldhubtv6496]

@@darryld6578 it’s not Cowboy culture and style came from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@krasewidener6355]

It’s nice to know oneself and the accomplishments you yourself have made, and to not be on an incessant search for significance. I could give two shakes about what my previous family or race did or accomplished. They are not me, I am more than my irrelevant shade of melanin.

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

The way this guy with the 🤠 hat on talked about reminded me of a version of actor Bobcat Goldthwait but black

[@livencali1]

"Only when the lions have their own historians will the hunters cease to be called hero's."

[@Amarillo1444]

This video is so wrong

[@Kjetilstorm]

We know there were a lot of black asian and white cowboys in the old days, but were there any notable asian ones? I'm curious, I know they did something with the railroads a long time ago, so I'd assume there would be a few just in the vicinity of the west yes?

[@OIFOEFVETERAN123]

It is a adopted tradition from the Spaniard. Which eventually became Mexican.

[@ikad5229]

@Audi Bleu Spaniards living in the Americas. Y'all forget that is was all considered the same country. Mestizos and natives were Spanish citizens too, not just the peninsulares and criollos. The tradition originates from Andalusia, and was developed by Spanish mestizos, criollos and peninsulares (not the same ethnicity but the same nationality). They weren't Mexicans back there.

[@Justxfied]

@Audi Bleu native Americans didn't even have clothes. cowboy hats and boots were Spanish

[@bluegrim4252]

Aka white.

[@rosemontano8705]

The spainards slept with Indians and out came us mexicans. Spainards are our forefathers. Mexican DNA is 50 percent spainish European and 49 percent native American Indian and 1 percent African. Black American DNA is 75 percent African and 24 percent white European and 1 percent native American indianl

[@chalinochavez4580]

How about Mexican cowboys?

[@airsoftluke17]

ikr we literally brought it to america

[@progressivelife841]

has nothing to do with the racist term "cowboys", youre missing the point.

[@mrbrownstone7681]

COWboy VAQuero COW = VACA Cowboy is not a racist word. It is only the literal translation of a word in Spanish.

[@CDCYA]

Go make your own video about that then.

[@Seraph773]

Mexicans were first, basic knowledge

[@JuvitoAule]

The Harder They Fall led me to this.

[@janelightning73]

Excellent!

[@philm2341]

The first cowboys were vaqueros, y’all like to ignore what we Mexicanos brought to the table

[@original_USA_cowgirl]

vasqueros ans USA COWBOYS are not the same by culture or definiton. no one ignored you... were are speaking about OUR history as USA COWBOYS. 90% of hollywoods cowboy movies are based off REAL HISTORICAL BLACK COWBOYS which is the aesthetic and image they copy but whitewash at the same time. yall love to discredit us too...

[@Akiravill]

@@original_USA_cowgirl and the BLACK PEOPLE COPIED MEXICANS 😂 that’s the whole point. There were already vaqueros that did work in the US, so NO black people weren’t first, they just copied Mexicans for whatever reason and now trying to black wash history

[@original_USA_cowgirl]

@@Akiravill black people were already working with cows and horses during slavery. a lot of games made up within the cowboy sport originated from slaves who would tussle with the cows including clamping the nuts of the horses or cows to make the jump. bill Pickett was the first to do it. however after slavery, when slaves went to the west for work they were taught some aspects of ranching/herding that's 100% true. but on the basis of a USA COWBOY, (which was clearly state in the title) the aesthetic, mannerisms, lifestyle, and culture come from BLACK MEN that white Americans tend to whitewash and write out of history with fictional Hollywood characters. nobodys writting you out of history. we are just telling OUR HISTORY within the USA. if youve gone to any cowboy hall of fame you wouldve known that.

[@kenedii_favored_blessed]

I would have thought they would have been Native American? I'm black, but getting tired of this black power rhetoric. It's an overdone Turkey at this point. Sensible levels of ACCURATE representation only, please!

[@t.c.3393]

I believe you are black about as much as you believe in black cowboys. Would black folks only depicted as slaves make you feel better?

[@kenedii_favored_blessed]

@@t.c.3393 LOL! Why does it have to be one or the other? Surely black people did some other things since, and inbetween? LOL!!

[@Thrill_Hou]

“I’m black” 😂 Alright, mate. Pull the other one. 🤣

[@therapvault2375]

MEXICANS ARE THE REAL TRUE O.G COWBOYS this is some bs

[@kenedii_favored_blessed]

@@therapvault2375 Yes

[@dancing9387]

Interesting!

[@airsoftluke17]

No, the Spanish and the Mexicans were. We literally brought it to America

[@CMD140]

The first US cowboy was black the first North American cowboy was Mexican (Spaniards and natives)

[@aldoa1988]

Yes Mixed/Mestizo Mexican👍🇲🇽

[@rojo01ful]

Wrong

[@CMD140]

@@rojo01ful sorry to tell you but nope Mexicans, need a source?

[@rojo01ful]

@@CMD140 are you saying the states of California And Tejas didn't become part of the US after the war?

[@mrbrainbob5320]

The first US cowboys were Mexicans

[@APG-fu6gk]

FANTASTIC!!!

[@sheltinamcdaniels2290]

The first Cowboys were the Spanish Vaqueros. Only one in four cowboys were black.

[@iammyownteam524]

We waz cowboys ‘n sheeeet

[@64skb]

Mexicans were the first cowboys....

[@DC_R]

Soo are we talking about here in the Americas? Or are we going to deny the fact that horses have always been in Africa. Along with Elephants.... Yep first to ride those too. 😶 Just Saying

[@gilbertflores6218]

Caballeros are different from vaqueros. The caballeros used a lance where as vaqueros used the latia.

[@gayfrogs4206]

Caballero means knight

[@M0schin00]

@@gayfrogs4206 caballero means horsemen.

[@1988vikable]

Thats what the spanish brought horsman not vaqueros. Vaqueros are not from spain they are from mexico

[@theomega4homeschool325]

Thank you for this video

[@redmule8621]

First u.s. cowboys wear a Mexican, Mexican Spanish Indian mestizos, black and white. Real cowboys didn't go in for this discrimination until much later in history. And some won't let discrimination die.

[@redmule8621]

@Peter Sutcliffe always will be, vaxed and unvaxed today.

[@redmule8621]

@Peter Sutcliffe but when there's a job to do, nothing else matters.

[@Bert93104]

Black always trying to make Everything theirs!

[@ElectronicsForFun]

Why does he sound like bobcat goldwaith?

[@ricardcorralesoto]

The culture of horses and cattle is prior to their arrival in America, they already came from Spain in the Middle Ages, LA MESTA.

[@karlosthejackel69]

It’s getting harder to tell news from Satire now

[@gonzaler99]

Sucks to be wrong..

[@roberthairjr.4185]

The first cowboys were black

[@berthastravelingtips8872]

@@roberthairjr.4185 They were mexican. Thats why the word buckaroo exists

[@HeadhuntexGamer]

@@berthastravelingtips8872 They were Spanish, the first cowboys were not natives that used to hunt with bows

[@raulr752]

@@HeadhuntexGamer the majority of Mexicans are a mixture of Spanish and Native Americans. With the majority of Mexicans in Northern Mexico where the vaquero or Mexican Cowboy originated having more Spanish blood than Native American blood.

[@skylerarroniz5686]

@@HeadhuntexGamer cowboys didn’t exist in Europe and cowboy culture does have a lot of native Americans influences. Like those pants that’s buck skin.

[@J0ZZE123]

Wrong. The first cowboys were the vaqueros, hispanic people from what is now mexico.

[@user-xe5fz6se9j]

If you watch the Magnificent Seven movie you’ll see who they chose as the lead guy.

[@tsmith5420]

I guess people in the comments cant read. The title says first US cowboys.......not first mexican cowboys

[@watchmefukktv]

lol they should've wrote it in spanish

[@mihakabercic4457]

the first us cowboys were mexican how do you think they got the idea 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@sbebb3762]

ABORIGINES PREDATE MESTIZOS SO STEP OFF.

[@chemicalohio5513]

At the same time the only thing American about cowboys is the word

[@swat6006]

@@mihakabercic4457 They are talking about the first cowboys in the country called USA not North America y’all just want to argue to argue.

[@lindahernandez6360]

Get y'all history strat cowboys started in MEXICO !

[@roytube2499]

It is a surprise to me that cowboy was not originally from whites, but it really doesn't matter to me who is the first. it really matter is now it is the time we are able to accepting any culture in this nation. We had similar past in certain way, I mean Asian and African Americans. But let us just appreciate and enjoy this great century that we can express what we want and be who we wanna be. Respect from a "Chinese" if you put me in that bracket.

[@roytube2499]

great infos

[@filippofittipaldi8050]

The ethnic mix I've read was Mexicans were about a third of the cowboys. African Americans were about a quarter. And Idigeous Peoples and European Americans made up the balance. I'd like to see a western that looks more like the west really looked.

[@newvibes789]

Go study percents! Your math doesn’t add up!!

[@rosemontano8705]

I dont know if you know this but all of the southwest america was mexico? and mexicans were riding horses and tending cattle back then after the mexican and american war that is when white men came into the southwest and learned how to ride from The mexican vaqueros. Resrarch the first white cowboy hat the stenson and its creator said he created the stenson off of the sombrero. Sombrero was created in the 1500s by mexicans.

[@jesusvazquez2467]

In USA, maybe But the origin of Cowboy comes from Mexico

[@vatolocosforever803]

Mexicans were the first cowboys in the United States and in Mexico. Spain brought the first cattle

[@eduardoramos3577]

Cowboys originated in Chihuahua, Mexico. Nowadays we have one of the best riders called charros and charrería is our National Sport.

[@AfriasporaFilms]

@The Guardian, thank you for this video. It’s great to know about these unsung black heroes.

[@abrahanrodriguez9003]

The first cowboys where the Mexicans, everyone after copied their style.

[@AfriasporaFilms]

Why are you here?

[@M0schin00]

@@AfriasporaFilms To destroy the Mexican erasure and culture appropriation yall are trying to commit.

[@GawdZilla84]

@@AfriasporaFilms to teach you facts, your not taking what my people created for yours.

[@AfriasporaFilms]

@@GawdZilla84 you, you! YOU! Created. Nothing.

[@GuerrillaFilms1]

Nice to see everyone correcting (what should be) a reliable news source

[@OfficialDJTasawennateken]

And by the way the first American black cowboy didn't show up until bass Reeves in 1875 when he became a us marshal cowboy

[@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482]

That’s like saying white cowboys didn’t exist before Buffalo Bill

[@rosemontano8705]

You say the first black cowboy? the white man cowboy hat was created in 1830 called the stenson? The creator of the stenson hat said he created the first cowboy hat off of the mexican cowboy hat called the sombrero that was created in the 1500s. Black cowboys were the last to ride horses in america?

[@ProDoc18]

THE FIRST US COWBOY WERE VAQUEROS

[@kvhvtke1935]

Native Americans was the first cowboys herdsman

[@gnomesayin1440]

Cowboy culture is of Hispanic origin in Spain, Southwest Europe.

[@1988vikable]

Mexican origin NOT spanish .

[@valkyriesardo278]

Cultural appropriation. First Ancient Egypt, merely because it was on the continent of North Africa. Nowadays, somebody else's hair. Next we'll be hearing they built the Grand Ole Opry. It is one thing to share a culture as fellow Americans, but something else entirely to claim invention. When it comes to the horse, doesn't credit go to Spain? Weren't they the first to import horsemanship to the Americas?

[@comradepolarbear6920]

@somedeveloperblokey america has culture and it has a lot of it.

[@Thrill_Hou]

1. There is no continent called “North Africa” 2. This is a video about “cowboys in the United States.” Not the first horse riders in America or whatever, but the first men and women who were employed in this occupation. Leave your bigotry at the door, and open your mind.

[@therapvault2375]

MEXICANS are the true o.g cowboys

[@Elias-ik1ur]

they already think they were olmecs

[@HeadhuntexGamer]

@somedeveloperblokey As someone from Europe who visited America in both countryside and cities I can tell you America is filled with culture, but if youre a city boy only watching CNN you wont notice it

[@western_cartel_tv]

Sorry but Mexicans were the 1st cowboys

[@GypsyHarlow]

There were no horses in Mexico before the Spanish arrived

[@skywolf2012]

This is so cool, now time to listen to Sadat X and Jeru's Black Cowboy songs

[@erikarobinson3557]

Is this titled the FIRST US COWBOYS? OR THE FIRST COWBOY IN HISTORY?

[@philrangel2785]

Yes, there were plenty of black cowboys. But, now we’re literally ignoring facts just because we wanna make a racial point... Mexicans were the first cowboys. Period.

[@myraffey]

Not only did the Chinese invent paper, printing, gun powder and the compass, they were the world's first horse culture. Chinese horses were brought west to the Middle East and eventually the Mediterranean trading ports where they entered the global marketplace. In the Americas, horses had died out thousands of years ago. The Spaniards returned horses to America and once again, herds of wild horses spread across north and south America.

[@freckleheckler6311]

That’s completely false. The oldest record of horse taming and domestication is around the Eurasian steppe and around Russia and Ukraine. It would have been Europeans who managed to mount horses which revolutionized travel, transportation and warfare forever. Stop pandering, it’s pathetic.

[@alwilliams4697]

The term cowboy i think is what they are talking about...the spanish where called something.

[@erikarobinson3557]

Yes they were Vaqueros. They were the original cowboys.

[@jacobe3051]

@@erikarobinson3557 no they were called vaqueros the term cowboy came from black people is what they’re saying

[@erikarobinson3557]

@@jacobe3051 I know that

[@Ghost_of_Cantinas]

The term cowboy existed for centuries prior to (irish, english, etc). It held two definitions for awhile, "boy who herds cow" or "a person who was unruly, barbaric, etc.". The two definitions eventually merged to descrive the modern western cowboy but the term was used prior to. So the first person called a cowboy wasn't necessarily black if we look at the etymology of the word "cowboy".

[@valeriewhite9224]

The Guardian would never have been established without financial benefits arising from slavery, All people who have written for the Guardian in the past and right now ought to be ashamed of themselves.

[@crazydave1990ify]

The person who founded the Guardian was a slaver. They don't like talking about that though.

[@simiouisreal2496]

This is getting ridiculous

[@haoyang9881]

personally I thought the title of the video was a bit hyperbolic and I was indeed slightly turned off by it but after watching the video the historical facts did stack up! you can’t deny that most people, if not everyone, conceives of a cowboy as a white man, and that’s exactly the assumption that this video is trying to challenge! perhaps watch it with an open mind - you can accept some ideas presented without accepting all of them

[@Thrill_Hou]

I know, right? The racists in the comments section in every Guardian KZbin video is getting annoying. 🤬

[@jesus-nr3ig]

@@haoyang9881 I completely agree but to say the "first" cowboys in the western part of N.A is malarkey. The Vaqueros who are of spanish decent who brought tons of horses to the New World (Thank you moor influence) were the first Cowboys. Cowboy culture is literally derived from Mexicans whether it be the hats, boots, style, riding techniques, riding bulls the whole 9 to say it was they were the first would be a slap across the face to all the vaquero/charro and other famous jinete sub culture.. Awesome video though.

[@worldhubtv6496]

@@haoyang9881 Mexicans originated cowboys culture from the sombreros to the boots

[@LVQuinn83]

Where did American cowboys originate? Though popularly considered American, the traditional cowboy began with the Spanish tradition, which evolved further in what today is Mexico and the Southwestern United States into the vaquero of northern Mexico and the charro of the Jalisco and Michoacán regions.🇲🇽🇪🇦🤠 "Fact"

[@egyptdrew]

We were Cattlemen and there were all types of cowboys.