Cowboys in the 1820s and 1830s begins the first cattle drives. When Anglo Americans came in the 1820s and 1830s, ranching practices were well established. Cowboys were called vaqueros after the Spanish word vaca for “cow.” They herded cattle into Corrales or corrals.
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By the early 1700s, cattle ranching had spread north into what is now Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico and south to Argentina. The native cowboys were called vaqueros(from the Spanish word for cow) and developed roping skills, using braided rawhide reatas (the root word for lariat).
