From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Al B. Traus wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > george.kincaid@worldnet.att.net says...   
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   >   
   >>I've heard the   
   >>vaquero mentioned quite a bit. How common were they, I wonder?   
   >   
   >   
   > Vaquero translates to "cow tender" - or simply "cowboy."   
   > IOWs, it's Spanish for "cowboy."   
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   And really the acceptable term in the early days, "cowboy" ("cow boy",   
   actually) in Texas implying thievery after the Texas revolution,   
   probably a holdover from American revolutionary times when it also   
   implied a thief. And vaquero was very induring and the common term in   
   South Texas into modern times. In California, too, I'm told - and it's   
   variation, buckaroo, up north.   
      
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