The North American Cowboy in Folklore and Literature

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2014

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Folklore Forum: Translations

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Many books have been written comparing the North American cowboy and the Argentinean gaucho, for the existence of some similarities between these two figures cannot be denied. Those similarities deserve to be defined with greater precision than they usually are, and for that reason it is perhaps interesting to talk about the cowboy, what he is and what he used to be. Both the cowboy and the gaucho have been horsemen in an American environment. The cowboy can also be compared to another American horseman, the Mexican ranchero, since it was the ranchero who gave the cowboy the techniques, the tools, the lingo, and even the cattle and drove of horses that made him a cowboy. But he must be compared to the gaucho because the Argentinean pampas are clearly similar to the Great Plains of North America.

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McDowell, John H. Translated: Américo Paredes, “El Cowboy Norteamericano en el Folklore y en la Literatura” (“The North American Cowboy in Folklore and Literature”), (2014) Folklore Forum: Translations: http://folkloreforum.net/translations/.

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