Howdy Since I made this video I have learned a ton. I realize that some of the things I have said were not the most accurate or up to date information. To be honest, I made this video in about an hour so I would say the quality is not perfect for that reason. I have learned that I need to double check and triple check information out there before I tell it to you all. I have also learned that I can make much better videos if I put in the time and energy they deserve. At the end of the day, I made this video almost two years ago and I don't regret it. I thank you for tuning in to this video, but I want to let you know that this is not my best work. Since this video was published I have significantly increased the quality of every video I have made. So don't be afraid to try out another video on my channel. Thanks in advance and God bless.
The cowboy on the right on your cover picture was my uncle Morris McCarty of Meeteetsee Wyoming! Spent most of his life on a horse! Lots of mountain riding,guideing hunters ,dudes ,lost his only son in Vietnam!
I took a Native American perspective, which would mean that the Spanish and Mexicans immigrated to their land. However, I see what you’re saying. Also the vaquero were also natives, so that could be another point of contention.
Taco Hats (rolls eyes). The brims of their hats were shaped like that so when they roped the cattle or the horses, they didn't knock their hats of with their arm. Like everything else, there was a reason for why they did what they did and why they wore specific items.
That legend about the vaquero not being able to walk was started for the huns by the Romans who said that if you take a hun out of the saddle he will not be able to walk,it started because the huns were well known horsemans,their entire culture was around horses,that where they got they meat,drinks etc,they heavily used them in battle as all huns were trained in mounted archery and were taught to ride since an earlier age (before they could walk) and it was said that the huns spent more time riding and waging war than walking. I suppose this legend can be used for any known horse culture but I'm just letting you know of the origins :)
Awesome background information! I appreciate you reaching out and telling me all about it. I’m sure the huns deserved to designation as much as the vaqueros of old did.
Brush popper was the name given to cowboys riding through the brush trying to get mostly cows out. I once knew of a cowboy that ran a bear out. Cow puncher was the name given to cowboys that rode in trains trying to keep cattle from lying down and getting trampled by the other cattle. Truly enjoyed your video. It was so good I could smell the leather.
The origin of the term “cow puncher” actually came from the people who worked at shipping pens and loaded the cattle onto railroad cars. They used long poles to prod the cattle to get them to go into rail cars.
I actually think you are thinking of the term “cowpoke”. It would be the correct origin of that term. Albeit I’m not positive that it isn’t the origin of both terms.
Its definitely NOT from "punching" through the brush. It is from stockyard work, and a lot is from fashion/style--"puncher" sounds macho to most everyone.
The original cowboys were the Spanish in the desert areas and plains of spain. The Spanish were the first people who brought over horses and cows, because they didn’t live in the Americas before the Spanish came over and introduced them. Then the Spanish cow ranching culture and traditions was taught to / forced upon the Mexican natives and the mestizos who then spread it to everyone else. So much in America is influenced by Hispanic culture and tradition. It is truly amazing. Thank you for this info
Where I live in FL there's a huge cattle influence from the Spanish. One of the largest rodeos in the country is just a few miles from me. Interesting that the "cowboys" in this area actually preferred to be called "cowmen". Doesn't sound as cool to me though lol
Yes and no. Mexicans did not exist yet (modern nation) so there was no showing "Mexican" natives, they were just Natives and from New Spain and by Spanish law they were also Spanish subjects and thus also Spanish. Mestizos by Law were also Spanish and Spanish subjects. On the subjects on "forcing" is debatable. I have heard some natives could own horses and some couldn't, many Mestizos owned horse though.
@@stone0234 so there was no showing Mexicans argument is bogus, and the New Spain crap is silly the Spaniards didn’t control the whole territory Apaches, Taramauradas, Yaqi would bash your face in you called them “Spaniards” 🤣🤣🤣
Great video! Even though lots of folks call the shanked bits with a single break a “snaffle” (like a Tom Thumb bit)... they are NOT a snaffle. A snaffle bit has no leverage, no shanks. If a shank is present it is a curb bit. A curb bit may have a single jointed mouthpiece, a double jointed mouthpiece, a mouthpiece with a port, a mouthpiece with a cricket- etc. A “curb snaffle” is an oxymoron. Keep the interesting videos coming!!!
Yes, I am learning alot through my research for these videos so I appreciate you throwing in all of the good information for my own use too. It's really helpful when people don't just bash what I had to say so thank you.
All of what Murphy said is correct, but you won't find this information on the internet. The most advanced bit on the ranch I grew up on was a Tom thumb bit, which the internet calls a snaffle bit.
@@ippychay Yes, I knew better though. No excuses for calling the Tom Thumb a snaffle. I believe I made this video off of few hours of sleep and in between classes at the Air Force Academy.
@@broomtailcountry Well thank you for your videos AND for being readied for Service to this Country at the beautiful and beloved Air Force Academy! You are indeed blessed ! I miss that place very much. My daughter went to school there, I was hoping my son would attend as well. Please keep up your videos if you’re able. p.s. on another note, I have so much missing info from brain damage, reading about Tom Thimb bit term, jogged my memory. Wish my Grandfather was still alive. He’s set me straight! God bless you, be safe. Praying for all our military daily. 🙏🏼🇺🇸
I grew up working cattle in Texas we never used a bit all we ever used were hackamores my grandfathers belief was can you work with an iron bar in your mouth. So we didn't use them
Thank you for the credit you gave to my vaquero ancestors. You’re information brought back old memories of my grandfather and uncles. Old time real vaqueros.
Thanks for making this video and starting a very lively discussion. I hope us old timers haven't been too hard on you with our corrections. I'm sure you've noticed many of us are very passionate about this subject and have studied and lived it extensively. You've been a good sport about it and taken it well. I'm sure later videos will be much more accurate and i look foreward to viewing them, mostly because of your attitude to learn and be better. Thanks again.
The cowpuncher saddle is a full rough out where no leather is smooth so you have a better grip when the horse is bucking, jumping from side to side and having uneven movements compared to a nicely trained horse and the pommel swells (front swells) being so high are so you can lock your thighs into those swells/behind them and not get bucked off. That looks like a bosal and not a hackamore. Glad other people already mentioned the fact that a snaffle doesn't have a shank on it or it becomes a different style bit, a common one is a Tom Thumb, and there are many options for a bit with a broken center. I like an argentine for refinement after basics myself.
A bosal is the noise piece that, when combined with a mecate, make a hackamore. Not to be confused with a mechanical hackamore. Tom thumb, aka jaw breaker, is the sorriest bit ever made according to many real horseman.
Bells=jingle bobs, chaps=leggings, snaffle is more “severe” than a mid port curb bit. Split reins are good for smacking your buddies horse on the ass when he’s not looking. Good video 👍🏻
I'm glad you liked the video. Honestly there is so much information that I was trying to pack into such a short video that it was pretty hard to get all of the minutia of everything.
Louis L'Amour says the name "cow puncher" comes from the cattle drivers having to use sticks to prod the steers onto the shutes to load them into railroad cars.
Exactly! Even though I'm a totally white Swede and proud of it!, I have Mexican and Spanish friends/relatives....very fine people! AND we get along great!
There weren't any people living there. Besides Texas, there was an Estimated 10k people living in all of the Northern Mexican states that is now the US combined. Cali didn't have many major permanent settlements and when Americans rushed to The state, Almost all Mexicans living there moved south.
@1:00 ~ "So the Texas cowpuncher inherited the land that the Mexicans Vaqueros gave to them. They didn't give it to them they took it." The United States did not steal Mexico's land from them. Breven, you're a young man and need to know that the United States paid Mexico for the land we received from them in an 1848 treaty with Mexico and after the wars with Mexico. The land was paid for in both American lives and monetarily. After Texas won its independence and before the Mexican War broke out, the U.S. tried to buy Texas and what was called “Mexican California” from Mexico, which was seen as an insult by Mexico and they turned us down. Mexico considered the boundary between Texas and Mexico to be the Nueces River, and the Republic of Texas and the USA asserting it to be the Rio Grande River. After Texas became a state, Mexico considered the annexation of Texas an act of war and attacked the United States in a number of border skirmishes. Then the United States declared war on Mexico. After the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo called for the United States to pay $15 million in United States Dollars (USD) to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico for up to $5 million in USD. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights. This was agreed upon by both the United States and Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb 2, 1848. Mexico had been through some civil wars and war with the USA, they were near broke and were very happy to have the $20 million USD which was one helluva lot of money in 1848... Sources: Wikipedia ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo Interactive Constitution ~ constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/the-mexican-american-war-in-a-nutshell
He Spent too much time listening to indoctrination from teachers. Whites and Mexican ancestry patriots stood together at the Alamo fighting for their freedom. His use of the term Anglo is also wrong it ignores all the Americans of Irish, Scottish, Nordic, French etc ancestry, not every White American is English.
Well spoken. As a native Texan I had my oldest daughter say she needed her friends mom who was hispanic to teach her proper Tex Mex dishes for school. We got into an argument because she did not believe she was apart of Tex Mex culture. What was the difference between my enchiladas and her friends moms? I asked her why the hell was all her cousins on my side mixed hispanic and white? What was the difference between Mexican food and Tex Mex. She was taught in school that the whites stole Texas from the Mexicans. I was so pissed. My cousins family are hispanic and their ancestors fought in the war against Mexico! Texas has a beautiful mix of the former Mexicans and the Anglos who migrated here. There were people on both sides who shied away from the blending but for the most part all Texans fought for that independence. The Mexicans felt Mexico City was too far away to understand their problems with Indian fighting and Ranching here and was ready for a new government closer to home for all Texans to be united. After a good long few days of education I set right where the school failed my child so she could understand that she was of Tex Mex culture. Food, music and all!
Great video. The Sandhills region of Nebraska is considered the finest grazing land in the country. There is a lot of Texas influence also. During the Texas trail days, Ogallala, NE was a destination for many herds. More than a few Texas Cowboys fell in love with the area and stayed and ended up starting ranches of their own. There are several huge ranches that trace their history back to the Texas cowboys.
@2:05 Dick Gibford. I can't see his eyes but I sure recognize the hat, beard on his chin, and no mustache so I'm certain that's him. He buckarood in Owyhee County, Idaho during the 1980s during his roaming days. He now resides in southern California near where he was raised. He cut and braided for me a 4 strand, 60' riata by hand with just a pocket knife. I was amazed...
No todos, el estilo ranchero viene de las rancherías Mexicanas durante la época Mexicana y durante el comienzo del siglo 19. La disciplina misionera tiene sus orígenes durante la colonia Californiana, mucho antes de que fuera territorio Mexicano, y ellos usaron técnicas de la vieja escuela Europea, y adaptaron esas técnicas para el campo Californio para usarlas durante la época de las misiones, cuando habían menos rancherías privadas y más rancherías misioneras.
Yo diría que los vaqueros Americanos de ahorita tienen más influencia inglesa, como los Floridios anglosajones que arreaban ganado en los bosques de la Florida, mezclado con la tradición Mexicana de Texas. Hay diferentes vaqueros por Norteamérica, pero diría que los que tienen más influencia Mexicana son los Texanos. Saludos
On the hackamore, I think is an Americanized version of the Basic Bosal and Reins, invented by the colonized Mexicans indigenous people, they were forbidden from equestrian knowledge, So they figured out to make the bosal with horsehair, or whatever was available, pretty insightful video, look up the Mexican Charro...
@@sweetpeasandyarrowaranchdi8327 look up a book in English and Spanish called charreria arte mexicana. Also a great read a book called Empire of the Summer Moon by SC Gwynne talks about the Comanches and the horse culture that was the West.
@@broomtailcountry what lens did you look up the history of the Vaquero friendo? Cause vaqueros are the result of what sprung in Mexico from the Spanish Chinacos just like how the Cowboys (cowpunchers) sprung from the Vaqueros. Look up what territory was Mexico and I assure you, no Vaqueros emmigrated into California or the rest of what is now the southern States in the USA. Cool video though...
@@jphillipsf Viewed from Native American lenses the Spanish vaqueros immigrated there. Viewed from U.S. lenses they immigrated. Viewed from the Spanish government the vaqueros helped colonize Alta california. Viewed from the lens of Mexico, then the vaquero did not immigrate to Alta California, because it was technically a part of Mexico. It depends what lens you decide to look at the situation in.
You avoided mentioning that the “cowboy & the buckaroo” both learned from the Mexican Vaquero the trade. Both the cowboy & buckaroo got their equipment from the Vaqueros and altered it to fit them. The name of the equipment as in the “Dolly” come from the Vaquero yelling at the new “ cowboys” “ Dale huelta“ ( meaning give it a turn). The cowboys thinking they were calling the “horn” the dolly is how it came to it’s name “dolly”…
Nice information I really enjoy it. Actually in México the original and traditional way to start a colt is with the rawhide bosal tied with horse hair mércate, then the mexican bit, as you said with two reins and then you have a caballo Charro!🐴
Although they practically go hand and hand, a vaquero isnt always a charro. Charro is something slightly different, more of a sport derived from the vaquero practices. Key differences is mostly in that although a charro does use a riata, they usually go for a soga de pita which is also braided but from a type of string from a maguey cactus plant? Also the charro saddle can have a more pronounced horn since a charro will almost always pull with it.
The original cowboys were the Spanish in the desert ares of spain. The Spanish were the first people who brought over horses and cows, because they didn’t love in the Americas before the Spanish came over and introduced them. Then the Spanish cow ranching culture and traditions was taught to / forced upon the Mexican natives and the mestizos who then spread it to everyone else
Charreria is not just a sport, it became a national sport. It was the way Mexican’s worked the “Hacendados” cattle. Eventually moving up north and changing.
I’d like to say that we use a hackamore in Texas, like our ropes are made of grass(traditionally) our spurs are straight shanked what’s called chihuahua spurs. I ride in a slick fork, basically an association with out the swells
Sun Set That sun still sets in the west But that old trail is asphalt now Baked by the sun hot and dry The sounds of hoofs have passed Herds of buffalo graze no more Barbwire strung along The fence post passed like a picket fence As the truck tires whine on The sweetgrass has all but gone The Mesquite is tall and thick Prickly Pear covers the prairie The Longhorns have gone A saddle all covered in dust The moth-riddled blanket flaps Riding quirt amiss Old spurs hung on a wall On a post hangs a leather belt With a holster cracked and rotting That old hogleg turned brown Brass all green The lassoing cowboy is no more That broad hat tipped back His shirt sleeves rolled high Jeans rolled double His hair thinned and gray High cheekbones darken Bull hide tough Hand scars a many With eyes squinting A straw chair leaned back Daydreaming No more round ups That last ride was long ago With a rolled cigarette on his lip His words in a low key That sun still sets in the west Barry 4/3/2023
Humility is a positive a😮ttribute. Keep working at. I say I grew up in a cow pen. True Southwest Louisiana, which you may be amazed to find out, has a long and early cattle culture, early o mid1700's as well as Florida where not only the spanish but the Seminole had great hearts of cattle and horses. These cultures, equipment, methodologies, have crossed over over time. See you later, whup and ride .
Just locked in to your site ,looking forward to the coming video's. Coming from about as fare west as you can get here in California . Happy trails young man.
Every horse uses a different bit depends on there mouth and the horse so a cow punchers don’t use the same bit as other cowpunchers I mean they can and might but it depends on the horse and what you are tryna do
You kinda mixed up historical aspects and modern aspects somewhat. Cowpunchers originally used grass ropes. These were much cheaper than the rawhide riatas that the vaqueros used but they would burn up from the friction if you dally with them. Nowadays they use synthetic ropes which makes tying hard and fast a little more dangerous because they're much stronger and harder to cut. I've only known a few cowboys here (in Oklahoma which is very close to the Texas tradition) that still tie hard and fast on larger animals and they're considered a bit reckless by others. In the rodeo circuit team ropers only dally and calf ropers tie hard and fast because they have to dismount. The technique and equipment they use for dallying isn't the same as the vaqueros. They typically wrap their smaller saddle horns in strips of inner tube rather than rawhide. The rubber creates more friction on the nylon ropes than the rawhide on rawhide of the riata. That means they can stop the rope from running through quicker so they can use shorter ropes and get a better time in competition. When you look at the modern cowboy there is a lot more blending of styles and techniques but with rodeos there has been some standardization around what's proven to be the most effective at getting the best times.
Great and insightful comment! I appreciate your thoughts on the blending of styles especially. If you ever want to make a video request feel free to shoot me an email at brevenengelson@gmail.com
Vanqueros use mule hide horn wraps because the rawhide reatas can't take the sudden jerk from rubber, they feed the rope slowing down the cattle easier. Open plains allowed that extra time but Texas brushpoppers don't have that luxury. That's why they tie off and use short ropes.
I rode western style rigs for years in my youth to young teenage years. I used a chest band and a throat latch, as we called it, to keep a horses head from rearing and crashing into your face. I had a full on reared horse head to the face contact once, and I could easily see how it would kill a person. I also had to opportunity to ride a couple of real 'cow ponies' being shipped across country. The quicks ness of those mounts was astonishing and getting used to a 'slack rein' steering took a few minutes to get used to.
Dear God! This was literally researched on Facebook. You technically got more right than wrong so there is that. To call this anything other than a GROSS overview would be disingenuous at best!
Thanks for making such an informative video. Learned a lot. Legit question, when you said the Vaquero started in Mexico and went to California are saying they didn't go to the modern California area until after the Mexican American war, or did they go from the part of Mexico that is still Mexico today to what is now modern California while it was all Mexico?
They were in the modern california area in the early 1800s. I believe they made it all the way at least to Monterey. prior to the Mexican American war. Most histories point towards the Mexican war of independence as part of the start of the rancho system in California.
@@broomtailcountry thank you so much. I know so little about this place and time and I want to more. I am interested in how different it was from the plethora of fiction.
I want to say thank you for saying vaqueros came from Mexico. I know the methodology came from Spain, but the vaquero was developed in Mexico. Yet people still say "the Spanish" like they're scared to say Mexico
Calm down their bud maybe rope with the lasso and other things Anglos didn’t have but Anglos were always horsemen before Spain even brought them horses
6:28 into the video, stirrups. They tell me stunt man Yakima Cannot invented one with just a bar.kind of like a cheap bicycle pedal. When stunt men had to jump from horse to stage coach or horse to buckboard or horse to horse to pull the bad guy out of the saddle . Stunt men kept getting hurt and crippled when the feet/boots got caught in the stirrup. It saved lives and injuries but I'vee never seen one
Originally they usually did. Cowpunchers originally used grass ropes that wouldn't have been able to handle the friction of dallying the way the rawhide riatas of the vaqueros could. Once rodeos and team roping became a thing and they started using synthetic ropes they picked up dallying from the vaqueros but learned to do it with a shorter rope. Nowadays (in my experience growing up in Oklahoma anyway) few ropers still tie hard and fast these days unless they're calf roping. They'll wrap they're saddle horns in strips of rubber from inner tubes. That creates more friction than the traditional rawhide wraps allowing them to stop their catch much quicker while still allowing them to let go in a bind.
The Vaqueros origin I’d say depends on what region. I’d say Texas has more Mexican influence because of the heavy Mexican presence in Texas, and because most of the hackamores you see that are from the Texan discipline resemble the hackamores that I’ve seen used in Central Mexico. The Californios on the other hand have their own thing, the Mexicans weren’t the first to bring horses or the horsemanship to California. Gaspar De Portolà reportedly brought various Dragones de Cuera, mounted soldiers that were instrumental in the creation of the Southwestern/Western Vaquero. The Californio discipline Can be broken down into two disciplines. The mission style, and the Rancho (Rancheria) style. The mission style evolved when the Spanish needed to tend to cattle in their missions, and only had the schooled Iberian horses that were trained with spades at hand. And the Rancho style has more Mexican influence, having the same types of saddles, same loop throws, and same style of training. And as for the whole spade thing, I’ve never even heard of a horse dying because of a spade bit, a spade bit (freno de espada) usually sits on the horses tongue, with the cheeks balancing the weight of the mouthpiece and giving a bit more leverage. It should be noted that the spade is for more schooled horses, and not for green or intermediate horses. Pretty interesting video though 👍🏻. Also, have you done a video on the Florida Crackers yet? Pretty unique horsemen that are probably the only cowboys that have majority English influence.
if your talking old California , look to Baja California , Sonora & Sinaloa , Juan Bautista brought people from that region through the camino real . i really dont think, the californio style is all that european maybe beside the bits , when you talk about working cattle the californios where definitely very Mexican . we must not forget how old Mexico really is since the conquista in the 1500's
@@vaqueritof7565 Id say old California has more Mexican influence. Old California, which is known as the Baja California Peninsula was at the time an outpost for these New Spain soldiers, or the soldados de Cuera. Furthermore, a lot of the missionaries that came in the trips were from Mallorca in Spain, however most of the tack they used back then was adapted to the new rugged landscape they witnessed in the Viceroyalty of New Biscay. There could be a valid rebuttal on later Californio techniques say in the 1800s when the Rancho style emerged with the growth of more rancherías like the ones of Abel Stearns and even Juan Bandinis, which rised during the Mexican era in 1821. Rancherías at that time were growing not that slowly, but at the same time there wasn’t any boom, as most of the mission ranches were abandoned or converted into new rancherías. Santa Ana Del Chino was a Rancho that supplied the mission of San Gabriel Arcángel de los Temblores up to the Mexican era, and was promptly left there. However the Yorba did have a strong presence there and did end up inheriting the land until the Slaughter family eventually bought it
@@vaqueritof7565 And Mexico isn’t really that old, you could say Mexico City because it was the capitol of the viceroyalty of New Spain, but the country and the idea of a united Mexico as a whole started in 1815 with the Declaration of Independence until the Plan of Iguala when the country fully gained independence.
@@vaqueritof7565 The Texan style has more Mexican influence in my opinion, since they even used Mexican tack at one time, minus the saddles, since a lot of them were a simple model that adapted to every region. The mission style Californio discipline in my opinion has more Spanish influence, while the ranchería style has a lot more Mexican influence, noticed by the saddles and the way they roped, with the introduction of the romel rein, the gargantón or Alamár, and some other pieces of tack that were introduced to the area, a lot of it was more concentrated in Santa Bárbara, where a lot of the bits and reins are made nowadays
I apologize for the rude comment previously. You really did a great job on this video and I'm sure you put a lot into it. I don't know it all, lol. I'll be looking for your next video!
Mexican vaqueros did not migrate to california, california was already Mexican land and with that being said the Europeans or settlers are the ones that migrated WEST to Mexican land, lets not forget that and make it clear so people get it right.
Mexican Vaqueros quite literally were Spaniards prior to the Mexican War for independence. They were European. Also, it is very clear that the Spaniards/Mexicans migrated to Texas and California from present day Mexico.
All three may or may not tie hard and fast or may dally, depends on what they are doing. If they are working cattle alone, they will tie off so their horse can hold them in place. If they are working a branding or need to get one on a short rope for whatever reason, they probably dally. Great video though, good seeing young people interested in tradition. 🤠
Buckaroo definitely absolutely never tie off, if your going to doctor something and you need to get down you just trip it and hold it tight then put a half hitch in your rope and throw the rest on the ground then get off and doctor
Well Breven, that was interesting, I'm NO cowboy, no ranch hanch, but knowing some differences do exist, very detailed and explanatory, theirs something I've learned today, thanks for your input on the way of cowboying, !!!! More please, 😉✌️👌🤠👍.
Thank you young man! Excellent video, save a point that’s come up all my life .. My Family on my Father’s side were Spanish aristocracy cattle barons who came from northern Spain to what is now New Mexico in 1610. The Vaquero was actually a Spaniard in origination, not Mexican, but is often called Mexican for many reasons, too numerous to state here. And with all the unfortunate chaos in America regarding race and country of origin… not the place for that discussion. 🇺🇸 I’m just happy to view your video, and the pace at which you speak, being almost deaf. Grateful. Brutal pronunciation of “vaquero” tho LOL 😂😉 My great-grandfather relocated to the California basin in the 1800’s and we still had our small cattle ranch of just a few hundred acres until I was a teen. So over 350 consecutive years of ranching in America, another several hundred in the mountainous areas of Spain. So we had the influence of the rough terrain you mentioned in your video of the NM Southwest, similar to Texas, and also having ran our cows into and out of Texas, and then the more rich pasture of California, and how that all influenced my GG and grandfather’s equipment. Personally, I was taught to use the hackamore. My GG and GF rarely used the spade bit for the same reason another viewer mentioned - working with metal in the mouth. While my GG used the spade working, my GF taught me “..relationship relationship relationship..” with the horse. “A horse that fully trusts its rider and a rider who properly que’s with weight shifts and touch won’t need the spade!”, he’d always say to me with a huge frown. 🤨 😜 He used his spurs only when working and had different types for different work. He also modified his saddle designs for comfort after traveling thru Spain and into Australia to study ranching styles. He was an incredible rider, invited to the Spanish Riding School to study, and was there for some time when I was quite young. Your video was a treat. I really appreciate the visual aides with titles underneath. And again, your pace of speaking. Your work and time is appreciated! God bless you. Safe riding. 🐎.
Thank you for clarifying that the Vaqueros were Spanish not Mexican. My family were some of the first colonizers of what is now California. At the time they were colonists of New Spain. *the Spanish are actually responsible for conquering a great vast majority of what we know as the American West, Southwest and South* Unfortunately this will never be understood and anyone who is of Hispanic culture/ancestry will be deemed as "Mexican". This is a highly inaccurate categorization, assumption and stereotype. But hey what can you do? Nothing really and theres no point in really debating it , because itll always be seen as "Mexican".
@@cortez0331 Very true, on all points! What’s annoying, is people are more likely to call someone of Spanish descent from South America a Spaniard, than they are someone of Spanish descent here in America. Yet South American Spaniards are more often mixed race moreso than Spaniards here in America. And yes, we’re all lumped into “Mexican”. Government paperwork asking for race drives me crazy as there is only a box for “Hispanic/Mexican”. I end up either leaving it blank, checking “White” and “Native American”, or filling in a Blank line if it’s available. And really, it should be a moot point here in America - everyone is from somewhere else if one goes back far enough, even Native Americans! 😜😂 The beauty of America is its diversity. Have a wonderful day and year 🕊🇺🇸🐎
Vaqueros were mainly experienced Cattle Ranchers from Central and Northern Spain that emigrated to the Americas, particularly where land was available. Hence the Vaquero and Gaucho cultures. Los Ingleses de America that began arriving after annexation in 1848, learned Vaquero ranching and used much of the same Spanish equipment. Because Vacas required Rancheros y Villas, Misiones in nuevos territorios were key to ranching. The term Cowboy comes from Vaquero which is a literal translation. The late Marion Jones may disagree but Alta California was a sparsely populated region, and the ranches were deliberately staggered in development before 1848 in order to arrest any mass migration. At least that is what I assume. By the time the US had annexed Alta California, California itself probably had about 10,000 -15,000 Californio born Peninsulares. Good video though and it shows the changes from 1860s onwards. BTW, if you visited El Prado Madrid, there's a picture of a Spanish General who surveyed the territory of Texas. Took him several years before he returned to Spain.
It's called Mexican because people use anachronism and mixed things up but "Mexican" would be partly correct. Also the peninsular Spanish vaquero (saying solely "Spanish" would also be incorrect since every person that lived under the Spanish empire would be subjects to the Spanish crown, hence also Spanish by law) were different than the American Spanish/Mexican vaquero, equipment/techniques. Also if your family migrated from Northern Spain to Northern New Spain, then your family had to had landed first in Central New Spain (Mexico today), no one migrated directly to the now southwestern US.
@@carlosayala6754 all right, nueva vizcaya, alta California , Santa Fe de Nuevo México, they where all part of the imperio español , and that after the independence of México they became Mexican territory until 1848, do you have something else to say .
@@eframetal yes, i have a lot to say. From 1821 to 1848 Mexico had little to nothing control over those territories, that’s exactly why they lost the war. Now, Do you have anything else to say? Lol
I am a irish and Australian aboriginal blood , from the kimberley in Western Australia I worked and learned from three Texans from Amarillo in the panhandle their names was Chris bernarrrd, Danny cockerell and another cowboy y Named illy Bob and a Ron rider with the surname of groves i was fifteen and chewed Copenhagen tobacco and ate beans by the bucket load, which I still feed my crew with today it was in the kimberley s , a place called kalwynyarda , in between Fitzroy and derby , buddy cockerell and Amy cockerell where on the neighbouring property Blina station we had a remuda of horses that we bought off the broome rodeo club of twenty six broncs ,that was our soon to be prized working horses , which in the end we where roping off , and I will never forget the bronc that carried the pack , which was its punishment for dropping me on the ground six times in ten minutes , it ran away and still It got me in trouble as I was in charge ot that snakey bronc, when it came to pay day we would saddle up and load the gooseneck and go off into the scrub and look for feral bulls to rope and load up into the gooseneck and take them into the local slaughterhouse in fitroy which was run by a fella name Norton, anyway mates I hope that they have found a comfort spot to fall when they got back to amarillo , I'm fifty-two now but still remember it as if it was yesterday I can still canteboeard a bronc like they showed me to and use a spade bit or bosall as I was shown , anyway thats a story of three Texans that bought the real cowboy way to the kimberley they whe r e a big influence to all the local ringers and bushman , to this day in fitzroy the people still have the you betcha and son of a added to there language , this is kimberley Smith signing off i was the one that rode beside them, adios amigos
Not sure if it counts as migration from Mexico. California was Mexico. Maybe, maybe they migrated from further south in Mexico but that might even be stretching it.
not all buckaroos use the nylon macate. and the word vaquero and buckaroo are the same word, it’s just that the white settlers a long time ago took the word vaquero and slowly made the word buckaroo. and the main difference between vaqueros and buckaroos is that buckaroos took things from both sides of the cowboy world. but it’s a great video though
"as one of the most unjust (war) ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation" - Ulysses S Grant Mexico was still trying to recover from a 10 year war with Spain . I see a few Americans in this comment section trying to deny this land was stolen . To me the most iconic figure in the west & the best horseman in the world was and still is an olive/brown skinned man with a black mustache or beard. NOT John Wayne
The way v is pronounced in Spanish it can be hard for an English speaker to discern the two. That's why cowboys also sometimes called their horsee cavallo
The nylon mecate has been more popularized because it's cheaper, and looks good in shows. It's still more traditional for a buckaroo(at least here in MT/ID/WY that I've seen) to use horsehair or mohair mecate and get down. California Bridle Horse has some good information on the traditional vaquero and buckaroo methods of horsemanship and gear, if you wanted to learn more about them. 🙂 Good video though!
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The cowboy on the right on your cover picture was my uncle Morris McCarty of Meeteetsee Wyoming! Spent most of his life on a horse! Lots of mountain riding,guideing hunters ,dudes ,lost his only son in Vietnam!
That's amazing. I'm happy I put him on the cover! Thanks for the information and history.
Morris McCarty is such a cowpuncher name lol love it
VIVA MEXICO CABRONES M X 🌵🌵🌵🌵
Wtf your uncle a badass 💀
That's a lot of us in the Cody,meeteetsee area. I love Wyoming and will never live anywhere else.
I kind chuckled when you said the Vaqueros were "Mexican Immigrants". They were here long before the first Americans came to California.
I took a Native American perspective, which would mean that the Spanish and Mexicans immigrated to their land. However, I see what you’re saying. Also the vaquero were also natives, so that could be another point of contention.
@@broomtailcountry everyone wanted what the Indians had I suppose! 😆😆
Thank you
Immigrant is not a bad word, everybody came from somewhere
@@aylamiller5752 No everyone wanted what the Spanish had ...🤣🤣....THE HORSE itself 🤣🐎🐴🎠🏇🐎.
Taco Hats (rolls eyes). The brims of their hats were shaped like that so when they roped the cattle or the horses, they didn't knock their hats of with their arm. Like everything else, there was a reason for why they did what they did and why they wore specific items.
That legend about the vaquero not being able to walk was started for the huns by the Romans who said that if you take a hun out of the saddle he will not be able to walk,it started because the huns were well known horsemans,their entire culture was around horses,that where they got they meat,drinks etc,they heavily used them in battle as all huns were trained in mounted archery and were taught to ride since an earlier age (before they could walk) and it was said that the huns spent more time riding and waging war than walking. I suppose this legend can be used for any known horse culture but I'm just letting you know of the origins :)
Awesome background information! I appreciate you reaching out and telling me all about it. I’m sure the huns deserved to designation as much as the vaqueros of old did.
as well as the mongols and the assyrians before them. great point!
Some old cowboys wouldn’t walk ten feet, they’d mount up and ride the distance. Their life was on the back of a horse.
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Brush popper was the name given to cowboys riding through the brush
trying to get mostly cows out. I once knew of a cowboy that ran a bear out.
Cow puncher was the name given to cowboys that rode in trains
trying to keep cattle from lying down and getting trampled by the other cattle.
Truly enjoyed your video. It was so good I could smell the leather.
Brush Poppers were location specific to the brush country in Texas...
@@rray1953 ...and anywhere else with heavy brush.
The origin of the term “cow puncher” actually came from the people who worked at shipping pens and loaded the cattle onto railroad cars. They used long poles to prod the cattle to get them to go into rail cars.
I actually think you are thinking of the term “cowpoke”. It would be the correct origin of that term. Albeit I’m not positive that it isn’t the origin of both terms.
Its definitely NOT from "punching" through the brush. It is from stockyard work, and a lot is from fashion/style--"puncher" sounds macho to most everyone.
@@keilebgutierrez5260 Only non-westerners/neophytes used the term cowpoke.
The original cowboys were the Spanish in the desert areas and plains of spain. The Spanish were the first people who brought over horses and cows, because they didn’t live in the Americas before the Spanish came over and introduced them. Then the Spanish cow ranching culture and traditions was taught to / forced upon the Mexican natives and the mestizos who then spread it to everyone else. So much in America is influenced by Hispanic culture and tradition. It is truly amazing. Thank you for this info
Where I live in FL there's a huge cattle influence from the Spanish. One of the largest rodeos in the country is just a few miles from me. Interesting that the "cowboys" in this area actually preferred to be called "cowmen". Doesn't sound as cool to me though lol
Yes and no. Mexicans did not exist yet (modern nation) so there was no showing "Mexican" natives, they were just Natives and from New Spain and by Spanish law they were also Spanish subjects and thus also Spanish. Mestizos by Law were also Spanish and Spanish subjects. On the subjects on "forcing" is debatable. I have heard some natives could own horses and some couldn't, many Mestizos owned horse though.
@@stone0234 Mexican is derived from the word Mexica, people that inhabited the land long before the Spanish.
@@pasofino9583 yes and Mexicas were only one tribe out of 62 (or 63) that exist in Mexico. They also only lived in a small part of modern day Mexico.
@@stone0234 so there was no showing Mexicans argument is bogus, and the New Spain crap is silly the Spaniards didn’t control the whole territory Apaches, Taramauradas, Yaqi would bash your face in you called them “Spaniards” 🤣🤣🤣
Great video!
Even though lots of folks call the shanked bits with a single break a “snaffle” (like a Tom Thumb bit)... they are NOT a snaffle.
A snaffle bit has no leverage, no shanks.
If a shank is present it is a curb bit.
A curb bit may have a single jointed mouthpiece, a double jointed mouthpiece, a mouthpiece with a port, a mouthpiece with a cricket- etc.
A “curb snaffle” is an oxymoron.
Keep the interesting videos coming!!!
Yes, I am learning alot through my research for these videos so I appreciate you throwing in all of the good information for my own use too. It's really helpful when people don't just bash what I had to say so thank you.
All of what Murphy said is correct, but you won't find this information on the internet. The most advanced bit on the ranch I grew up on was a Tom thumb bit, which the internet calls a snaffle bit.
@@ippychay Yes, I knew better though. No excuses for calling the Tom Thumb a snaffle. I believe I made this video off of few hours of sleep and in between classes at the Air Force Academy.
Took the words out of my mouth...😂 I start all mine in an actual snaffle, usually full cheek.
@@broomtailcountry Well thank you for your videos AND for being readied for Service to this Country at the beautiful and beloved Air Force Academy! You are indeed blessed ! I miss that place very much. My daughter went to school there, I was hoping my son would attend as well.
Please keep up your videos if you’re able.
p.s. on another note, I have so much missing info from brain damage, reading about Tom Thimb bit term, jogged my memory. Wish my Grandfather was still alive. He’s set me straight!
God bless you, be safe. Praying for all our military daily. 🙏🏼🇺🇸
I grew up working cattle in Texas we never used a bit all we ever used were hackamores my grandfathers belief was can you work with an iron bar in your mouth. So we didn't use them
Many charros start with a hackamores and keep using it till the horse is so advanced that they turn using body motion from the riders.
I believe it makes you and the horse better in the long run.. but that’s my opinion
Though, of course, the horse has no teeth in the part of his mouth that the bit goes, but sure
@@riograndedosulball248 im aware its how we were taught. Didn't say it was better just the way we were taught.
That is what I liked when working horses and was told could not use it in western riding competition in shows... So I didn't go...
Thank you for the credit you gave to my vaquero ancestors. You’re information brought back old memories of my grandfather and uncles. Old time real vaqueros.
You can't explain the US cowboy without explaining what happened in New Spain/Mexico
Thanks for making this video and starting a very lively discussion. I hope us old timers haven't been too hard on you with our corrections. I'm sure you've noticed many of us are very passionate about this subject and have studied and lived it extensively. You've been a good sport about it and taken it well. I'm sure later videos will be much more accurate and i look foreward to viewing them, mostly because of your attitude to learn and be better. Thanks again.
Great video. Love it. Thank you. Being in Cali, I love the vaqueros.
The cowpuncher saddle is a full rough out where no leather is smooth so you have a better grip when the horse is bucking, jumping from side to side and having uneven movements compared to a nicely trained horse and the pommel swells (front swells) being so high are so you can lock your thighs into those swells/behind them and not get bucked off.
That looks like a bosal and not a hackamore.
Glad other people already mentioned the fact that a snaffle doesn't have a shank on it or it becomes a different style bit, a common one is a Tom Thumb, and there are many options for a bit with a broken center. I like an argentine for refinement after basics myself.
A bosal is the noise piece that, when combined with a mecate, make a hackamore. Not to be confused with a mechanical hackamore. Tom thumb, aka jaw breaker, is the sorriest bit ever made according to many real horseman.
I appreciate your humility on this post.
Bells=jingle bobs, chaps=leggings, snaffle is more “severe” than a mid port curb bit. Split reins are good for smacking your buddies horse on the ass when he’s not looking. Good video 👍🏻
I'm glad you liked the video. Honestly there is so much information that I was trying to pack into such a short video that it was pretty hard to get all of the minutia of everything.
@@broomtailcountry one thing Id think to cover would be the different brand styles and locations used
Great job on the video. I learned that cowpunchers got the name due to pushing the cattle into trains with a stick
That's the definition I've always heard!
CowPunchers or Brushpoppers.
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Louis L'Amour says the name "cow puncher" comes from the cattle drivers having to use sticks to prod the steers onto the shutes to load them into railroad cars.
Question , if California was Mexico till 1850 how were the vaquero an immigrant
It was native land before the Spanish immigrated; but otherwise, you're absolutely right
Exactly! Even though I'm a totally white Swede and proud of it!, I have Mexican and Spanish friends/relatives....very fine people! AND we get along great!
There weren't any people living there. Besides Texas, there was an Estimated 10k people living in all of the Northern Mexican states that is now the US combined. Cali didn't have many major permanent settlements and when Americans rushed to The state, Almost all Mexicans living there moved south.
@@KitamusPrime that's your claim , prove it
@@KitamusPrime "There weren't any people living there*"
* for certain limited values of *people*
@1:00 ~ "So the Texas cowpuncher inherited the land that the Mexicans Vaqueros gave to them. They didn't give it to them they took it."
The United States did not steal Mexico's land from them.
Breven, you're a young man and need to know that the United States paid Mexico for the land we received from them in an 1848 treaty with Mexico and after the wars with Mexico. The land was paid for in both American lives and monetarily. After Texas won its independence and before the Mexican War broke out, the U.S. tried to buy Texas and what was called “Mexican California” from Mexico, which was seen as an insult by Mexico and they turned us down. Mexico considered the boundary between Texas and Mexico to be the Nueces River, and the Republic of Texas and the USA asserting it to be the Rio Grande River. After Texas became a state, Mexico considered the annexation of Texas an act of war and attacked the United States in a number of border skirmishes. Then the United States declared war on Mexico.
After the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo called for the United States to pay $15 million in United States Dollars (USD) to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico for up to $5 million in USD. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights. This was agreed upon by both the United States and Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb 2, 1848. Mexico had been through some civil wars and war with the USA, they were near broke and were very happy to have the $20 million USD which was one helluva lot of money in 1848...
Sources:
Wikipedia ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
Interactive Constitution ~ constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/the-mexican-american-war-in-a-nutshell
He Spent too much time listening to indoctrination from teachers. Whites and Mexican ancestry patriots stood together at the Alamo fighting for their freedom. His use of the term Anglo is also wrong it ignores all the Americans of Irish, Scottish, Nordic, French etc ancestry, not every White American is English.
precisely why American history needs to be taught more and more in the school system.
and no, not revisionist history haha
IT WAS STOLD. no way around it.
@@vaqueritof7565 "STOLD" for $20 million dollars...
Well spoken. As a native Texan I had my oldest daughter say she needed her friends mom who was hispanic to teach her proper Tex Mex dishes for school. We got into an argument because she did not believe she was apart of Tex Mex culture. What was the difference between my enchiladas and her friends moms? I asked her why the hell was all her cousins on my side mixed hispanic and white? What was the difference between Mexican food and Tex Mex. She was taught in school that the whites stole Texas from the Mexicans. I was so pissed. My cousins family are hispanic and their ancestors fought in the war against Mexico! Texas has a beautiful mix of the former Mexicans and the Anglos who migrated here. There were people on both sides who shied away from the blending but for the most part all Texans fought for that independence. The Mexicans felt Mexico City was too far away to understand their problems with Indian fighting and Ranching here and was ready for a new government closer to home for all Texans to be united. After a good long few days of education I set right where the school failed my child so she could understand that she was of Tex Mex culture. Food, music and all!
Great video. The Sandhills region of Nebraska is considered the finest grazing land in the country. There is a lot of Texas influence also.
During the Texas trail days, Ogallala, NE was a destination for many herds. More than a few Texas Cowboys fell in love with the area and stayed and ended up starting ranches of their own.
There are several huge ranches that trace their history back to the Texas cowboys.
@2:05 Dick Gibford. I can't see his eyes but I sure recognize the hat, beard on his chin, and no mustache so I'm certain that's him. He buckarood in Owyhee County, Idaho during the 1980s during his roaming days. He now resides in southern California near where he was raised. He cut and braided for me a 4 strand, 60' riata by hand with just a pocket knife. I was amazed...
It's great that you actually mention that american cowboys have a mexican heritage, great video by the way
Thanks Bladimir. Stay tuned for the California vaquero video coming up.
No todos, el estilo ranchero viene de las rancherías Mexicanas durante la época Mexicana y durante el comienzo del siglo 19. La disciplina misionera tiene sus orígenes durante la colonia Californiana, mucho antes de que fuera territorio Mexicano, y ellos usaron técnicas de la vieja escuela Europea, y adaptaron esas técnicas para el campo Californio para usarlas durante la época de las misiones, cuando habían menos rancherías privadas y más rancherías misioneras.
Yo diría que los vaqueros Americanos de ahorita tienen más influencia inglesa, como los Floridios anglosajones que arreaban ganado en los bosques de la Florida, mezclado con la tradición Mexicana de Texas. Hay diferentes vaqueros por Norteamérica, pero diría que los que tienen más influencia Mexicana son los Texanos. Saludos
@@slrdf1758 Si de hecho!
@@slrdf1758 Si Verdad, informacion precisa.
In Australia it's Jackaroo and also Jillaroo. They work on the huge ranches there, where they are issued dogs and either a horse or ATV.
Australia, where they ranch spiders, snakes and different kind of livestock.
@@TheVodec Australia, home of the biggest ranches in the world.
@@broomtailcountry need to put together your Australian Yellowstone script then ...
@@TheVodec Lots of Brahmas, as they are somewhat drought resistant.
But yeah, rhe huntsman spiders are about the size of cattle.
On the hackamore, I think is an Americanized version of the Basic Bosal and Reins, invented by the colonized Mexicans indigenous people, they were forbidden from equestrian knowledge, So they figured out to make the bosal with horsehair, or whatever was available, pretty insightful video, look up the Mexican Charro...
I never knew they were forbidden, until a few comments on this video. Do you know where I could look to research this?
@@sweetpeasandyarrowaranchdi8327 look up a book in English and Spanish called charreria arte mexicana. Also a great read a book called Empire of the Summer Moon by SC Gwynne talks about the Comanches and the horse culture that was the West.
@@franciscomendoza3826 Thank you!
Mexicans (nation) did not exist back then
Nunca hubo colonia
The California vaquero did not emigrate from México , they were there before California was taken from México
Depends what lens you're looking through amigo.
@@broomtailcountry what lens did you look up the history of the Vaquero friendo?
Cause vaqueros are the result of what sprung in Mexico from the Spanish Chinacos just like how the Cowboys (cowpunchers) sprung from the Vaqueros. Look up what territory was Mexico and I assure you, no Vaqueros emmigrated into California or the rest of what is now the southern States in the USA.
Cool video though...
@@broomtailcountrynot really amigo just your ignorance doesn’t let you see it
@@jphillipsf Viewed from Native American lenses the Spanish vaqueros immigrated there. Viewed from U.S. lenses they immigrated. Viewed from the Spanish government the vaqueros helped colonize Alta california. Viewed from the lens of Mexico, then the vaquero did not immigrate to Alta California, because it was technically a part of Mexico. It depends what lens you decide to look at the situation in.
You avoided mentioning that the “cowboy & the buckaroo” both learned from the Mexican Vaquero the trade. Both the cowboy & buckaroo got their equipment from the Vaqueros and altered it to fit them. The name of the equipment as in the “Dolly” come from the Vaquero yelling at the new “ cowboys” “ Dale huelta“ ( meaning give it a turn). The cowboys thinking they were calling the “horn” the dolly is how it came to it’s name “dolly”…
That’s really cool
In northern nevada we say Dally
I didn’t avoid it, just forgot to mention it. Sorry
I’ve ridden the Black horse at 5:03 he’s an Australian Stock Horse stud named Cadabra.
Cool Cool
My ancestors in old Mexico made a living from cattle I broke tradition I became a steel worker. P S Great history lesson!!!
You can see clearly all that Mexican/Spanish in the Buckaroo's, great video.
Absolutely, there is no escaping it in the American West.
Nice information I really enjoy it. Actually in México the original and traditional way to start a colt is with the rawhide bosal tied with horse hair mércate, then the mexican bit, as you said with two reins and then you have a caballo Charro!🐴
Thank you, I will watch the video you sent me!
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Mexican cowboys are the og also you forgot the charro saddle 🇲🇽
Although they practically go hand and hand, a vaquero isnt always a charro. Charro is something slightly different, more of a sport derived from the vaquero practices. Key differences is mostly in that although a charro does use a riata, they usually go for a soga de pita which is also braided but from a type of string from a maguey cactus plant? Also the charro saddle can have a more pronounced horn since a charro will almost always pull with it.
@@danielfred16 oh yes but i kinda meant the saddle itself like with the big horn
The original cowboys were the Spanish in the desert ares of spain. The Spanish were the first people who brought over horses and cows, because they didn’t love in the Americas before the Spanish came over and introduced them. Then the Spanish cow ranching culture and traditions was taught to / forced upon the Mexican natives and the mestizos who then spread it to everyone else
Charreria is not just a sport, it became a national sport. It was the way Mexican’s worked the “Hacendados” cattle. Eventually moving up north and changing.
Spain was
All cowboys came from original mexican spaniards. North american adopte the culture
I’d like to say that we use a hackamore in Texas, like our ropes are made of grass(traditionally) our spurs are straight shanked what’s called chihuahua spurs. I ride in a slick fork, basically an association with out the swells
Vaqueros are the original cowboys
Sun Set
That sun still sets in the west
But that old trail is asphalt now
Baked by the sun hot and dry
The sounds of hoofs have passed
Herds of buffalo graze no more
Barbwire strung along
The fence post passed like a picket fence
As the truck tires whine on
The sweetgrass has all but gone
The Mesquite is tall and thick
Prickly Pear covers the prairie
The Longhorns have gone
A saddle all covered in dust
The moth-riddled blanket flaps
Riding quirt amiss
Old spurs hung on a wall
On a post hangs a leather belt
With a holster cracked and rotting
That old hogleg turned brown
Brass all green
The lassoing cowboy is no more
That broad hat tipped back
His shirt sleeves rolled high
Jeans rolled double
His hair thinned and gray
High cheekbones darken
Bull hide tough
Hand scars a many
With eyes squinting
A straw chair leaned back
Daydreaming
No more round ups
That last ride was long ago
With a rolled cigarette on his lip
His words in a low key
That sun still sets in the west
Barry
4/3/2023
Barry 😎
Love it. Yeeeha
Humility is a positive a😮ttribute. Keep working at. I say I grew up in a cow pen. True Southwest Louisiana, which you may be amazed to find out, has a long and early cattle culture, early o mid1700's as well as Florida where not only the spanish but the Seminole had great hearts of cattle and horses. These cultures, equipment, methodologies, have crossed over over time. See you later, whup and ride .
Put this in the wrong place. My apologies
To lazy to move it right now
Nice video! There’s of course going to be a ton of variations to all of these but as a general overview I think you nailed it.
Thank you. Yes it was meant to be more of an overview with me getting more into specifics in later videos.
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Yes boys and girls... the first American cowboys were the Mexicans of Northern Mexico.. Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango etc
Just locked in to your site ,looking forward to the coming video's. Coming from about as fare west as you can get here in California . Happy trails young man.
Buckeroo was an Anglicizing of the Spanish term Vaquero ... they are exactly the SAME thing.
traditional vaqueros rode with a fidor on the hackmore so the heel not would not bounce on the lower lip
Thank you for the information.
Every horse uses a different bit depends on there mouth and the horse so a cow punchers don’t use the same bit as other cowpunchers I mean they can and might but it depends on the horse and what you are tryna do
You kinda mixed up historical aspects and modern aspects somewhat. Cowpunchers originally used grass ropes. These were much cheaper than the rawhide riatas that the vaqueros used but they would burn up from the friction if you dally with them. Nowadays they use synthetic ropes which makes tying hard and fast a little more dangerous because they're much stronger and harder to cut. I've only known a few cowboys here (in Oklahoma which is very close to the Texas tradition) that still tie hard and fast on larger animals and they're considered a bit reckless by others. In the rodeo circuit team ropers only dally and calf ropers tie hard and fast because they have to dismount. The technique and equipment they use for dallying isn't the same as the vaqueros. They typically wrap their smaller saddle horns in strips of inner tube rather than rawhide. The rubber creates more friction on the nylon ropes than the rawhide on rawhide of the riata. That means they can stop the rope from running through quicker so they can use shorter ropes and get a better time in competition. When you look at the modern cowboy there is a lot more blending of styles and techniques but with rodeos there has been some standardization around what's proven to be the most effective at getting the best times.
Great and insightful comment! I appreciate your thoughts on the blending of styles especially. If you ever want to make a video request feel free to shoot me an email at brevenengelson@gmail.com
Vanqueros use mule hide horn wraps because the rawhide reatas can't take the sudden jerk from rubber, they feed the rope slowing down the cattle easier. Open plains allowed that extra time but Texas brushpoppers don't have that luxury. That's why they tie off and use short ropes.
I like all the styles 🇲🇽🇺🇸
Thank you for sharing I loved it
Danggg!!!! your channel is ballin!!!!!
I worked on the S Ranch, legendary Texans in Montana. The Spring Wagon was out 10 weeks, 3000+ head on. 250 sections. It was tied "hard and fast"
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I rode western style rigs for years in my youth to young teenage years. I used a chest band and a throat latch, as we called it, to keep a horses head from rearing and crashing into your face. I had a full on reared horse head to the face contact once, and I could easily see how it would kill a person. I also had to opportunity to ride a couple of real 'cow ponies' being shipped across country. The quicks ness of those mounts was astonishing and getting used to a 'slack rein' steering took a few minutes to get used to.
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Dear God! This was literally researched on Facebook. You technically got more right than wrong so there is that. To call this anything other than a GROSS overview would be disingenuous at best!
Please state your grievances with the video.
Agreed! This video sounds like a city boy doin a report in 6th grade about cowboys!
@@garyday4515 Thanks haha
Thanks for making such an informative video. Learned a lot. Legit question, when you said the Vaquero started in Mexico and went to California are saying they didn't go to the modern California area until after the Mexican American war, or did they go from the part of Mexico that is still Mexico today to what is now modern California while it was all Mexico?
They were in the modern california area in the early 1800s. I believe they made it all the way at least to Monterey. prior to the Mexican American war. Most histories point towards the Mexican war of independence as part of the start of the rancho system in California.
@@broomtailcountry thank you so much. I know so little about this place and time and I want to more. I am interested in how different it was from the plethora of fiction.
I want to say thank you for saying vaqueros came from Mexico. I know the methodology came from Spain, but the vaquero was developed in Mexico. Yet people still say "the Spanish" like they're scared to say Mexico
You are welcome sir
This dude is wrong it was Spain. Anyone who says Mexicans is undeducated.
The vaquero taught the Texans how to ride, rope etc.
Calm down their bud maybe rope with the lasso and other things Anglos didn’t have but Anglos were always horsemen before Spain even brought them horses
Excellent video! I’m assuming you’re covering boots in the next videos :) I never knew about the Visalia tree
The correct pronunciation is SHAPS, which comes from the Spanish word Chaparreras.
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Yeah I was gonna say that. If you pronounce it the way he did here in Oklahoma you'll be outing yourself as a greenhorn
6:28 into the video, stirrups. They tell me stunt man Yakima Cannot invented one with just a bar.kind of like a cheap bicycle pedal. When stunt men had to jump from horse to stage coach or horse to buckboard or horse to horse to pull the bad guy out of the saddle . Stunt men kept getting hurt and crippled when the feet/boots got caught in the stirrup. It saved lives and injuries but I'vee never seen one
Great video. Thanks for uploading.
I rode in the Pacific Northwest back 20-25 yrs ago , Washington n North West Montana so the Buckaroo style was prevalent there
Good to know. Thank you for the information sir.
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Que buen video amigo. Gracias
De nada hombre, hablas ingles?
@@broomtailcountry si poco
Cow punchers don’t always tie on it depends on what task is taking please. Good video thou.
I agree have tied on and dallied before depends what you are doing or if you have help .
@@robertmoore1123 I always thought that punchers tied on regardless of the job. Thanks for the information.
Yes
And also it depends on the Cowboy
Some like to tie on to the horn hard and fast
Some usually dally
Originally they usually did. Cowpunchers originally used grass ropes that wouldn't have been able to handle the friction of dallying the way the rawhide riatas of the vaqueros could. Once rodeos and team roping became a thing and they started using synthetic ropes they picked up dallying from the vaqueros but learned to do it with a shorter rope. Nowadays (in my experience growing up in Oklahoma anyway) few ropers still tie hard and fast these days unless they're calf roping. They'll wrap they're saddle horns in strips of rubber from inner tubes. That creates more friction than the traditional rawhide wraps allowing them to stop their catch much quicker while still allowing them to let go in a bind.
kinda crazy to see that california used to have men like the vaquero
Gran video, felicitaciones. Un nuevo suscriptor desde Colombia.
Your hackamore in the first picture is a bolo. Used for training
Thank you for this great vid
Nylon ropes typically have been bad due to it stretching, the grass ropes work the best ( for me )
The Vaqueros origin I’d say depends on what region. I’d say Texas has more Mexican influence because of the heavy Mexican presence in Texas, and because most of the hackamores you see that are from the Texan discipline resemble the hackamores that I’ve seen used in Central Mexico. The Californios on the other hand have their own thing, the Mexicans weren’t the first to bring horses or the horsemanship to California. Gaspar De Portolà reportedly brought various Dragones de Cuera, mounted soldiers that were instrumental in the creation of the Southwestern/Western Vaquero. The Californio discipline Can be broken down into two disciplines. The mission style, and the Rancho (Rancheria) style. The mission style evolved when the Spanish needed to tend to cattle in their missions, and only had the schooled Iberian horses that were trained with spades at hand. And the Rancho style has more Mexican influence, having the same types of saddles, same loop throws, and same style of training. And as for the whole spade thing, I’ve never even heard of a horse dying because of a spade bit, a spade bit (freno de espada) usually sits on the horses tongue, with the cheeks balancing the weight of the mouthpiece and giving a bit more leverage. It should be noted that the spade is for more schooled horses, and not for green or intermediate horses. Pretty interesting video though 👍🏻. Also, have you done a video on the Florida Crackers yet? Pretty unique horsemen that are probably the only cowboys that have majority English influence.
if your talking old California , look to Baja California , Sonora & Sinaloa , Juan Bautista brought people from that region through the camino real . i really dont think, the californio style is all that european maybe beside the bits , when you talk about working cattle the californios where definitely very Mexican . we must not forget how old Mexico really is since the conquista in the 1500's
@@vaqueritof7565 Id say old California has more Mexican influence. Old California, which is known as the Baja California Peninsula was at the time an outpost for these New Spain soldiers, or the soldados de Cuera. Furthermore, a lot of the missionaries that came in the trips were from Mallorca in Spain, however most of the tack they used back then was adapted to the new rugged landscape they witnessed in the Viceroyalty of New Biscay. There could be a valid rebuttal on later Californio techniques say in the 1800s when the Rancho style emerged with the growth of more rancherías like the ones of Abel Stearns and even Juan Bandinis, which rised during the Mexican era in 1821. Rancherías at that time were growing not that slowly, but at the same time there wasn’t any boom, as most of the mission ranches were abandoned or converted into new rancherías. Santa Ana Del Chino was a Rancho that supplied the mission of San Gabriel Arcángel de los Temblores up to the Mexican era, and was promptly left there. However the Yorba did have a strong presence there and did end up inheriting the land until the Slaughter family eventually bought it
@@vaqueritof7565 And Mexico isn’t really that old, you could say Mexico City because it was the capitol of the viceroyalty of New Spain, but the country and the idea of a united Mexico as a whole started in 1815 with the Declaration of Independence until the Plan of Iguala when the country fully gained independence.
@@vaqueritof7565 The Texan style has more Mexican influence in my opinion, since they even used Mexican tack at one time, minus the saddles, since a lot of them were a simple model that adapted to every region. The mission style Californio discipline in my opinion has more Spanish influence, while the ranchería style has a lot more Mexican influence, noticed by the saddles and the way they roped, with the introduction of the romel rein, the gargantón or Alamár, and some other pieces of tack that were introduced to the area, a lot of it was more concentrated in Santa Bárbara, where a lot of the bits and reins are made nowadays
Would you be interested in making a video with me or helping me with a vaquero video I am going to make?
I apologize for the rude comment previously. You really did a great job on this video and I'm sure you put a lot into it. I don't know it all, lol. I'll be looking for your next video!
Mexican vaqueros did not migrate to california, california was already Mexican land and with that being said the Europeans or settlers are the ones that migrated WEST to Mexican land, lets not forget that and make it clear so people get it right.
Mexican Vaqueros quite literally were Spaniards prior to the Mexican War for independence. They were European. Also, it is very clear that the Spaniards/Mexicans migrated to Texas and California from present day Mexico.
All three may or may not tie hard and fast or may dally, depends on what they are doing. If they are working cattle alone, they will tie off so their horse can hold them in place. If they are working a branding or need to get one on a short rope for whatever reason, they probably dally. Great video though, good seeing young people interested in tradition. 🤠
Buckaroo definitely absolutely never tie off, if your going to doctor something and you need to get down you just trip it and hold it tight then put a half hitch in your rope and throw the rest on the ground then get off and doctor
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Well Breven, that was interesting, I'm NO cowboy, no ranch hanch, but knowing some differences do exist, very detailed and explanatory, theirs something I've learned today, thanks for your input on the way of cowboying, !!!! More please, 😉✌️👌🤠👍.
Great video bud! Looking forward to the vaquero video. Subscribed for Great information 👍
Thank you.
Where is the part 2 of this? Vest/boots/hats?
Talk about the “Vaqueiros” of Brazil, and about “Vaquejada” please.
You will like our culture.
Ok, I’ll look into it for sure.
No existe en Brasil de mierda
Vaqueros were not Mexican immigrants in California, California was Mexico!
Bro don’t make it well you know he probably saying that for the people that know the “now” frontiers
Super Video, tolle Erklärungen!
That first bit isn’t a snaffle. It’s a broken mouth curb. The second bit is a solid mouth ported curb.
good explain about using the bosal nd the bit at the same time...to be careful with horses mouth....
You've made an Excellent video. My Husband and I look forward to seeing your other videos. Thank You
You are welcome, thank you for the comment.
Thank you young man! Excellent video, save a point that’s come up all my life ..
My Family on my Father’s side were Spanish aristocracy cattle barons who came from northern Spain to what is now New Mexico in 1610. The Vaquero was actually a Spaniard in origination, not Mexican, but is often called Mexican for many reasons, too numerous to state here.
And with all the unfortunate chaos in America regarding race and country of origin… not the place for that discussion.
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I’m just happy to view your video, and the pace at which you speak, being almost deaf. Grateful. Brutal pronunciation of “vaquero” tho LOL 😂😉
My great-grandfather relocated to the California basin in the 1800’s and we still
had our small cattle ranch of just a few hundred acres until I was a teen. So over 350 consecutive years of ranching in America, another several hundred in the mountainous areas of Spain.
So we had the influence of the rough terrain you mentioned in your video of the NM Southwest, similar to Texas, and also having ran our cows into and out of Texas, and then the more rich pasture of California, and how that all influenced my GG and grandfather’s equipment.
Personally, I was taught to use the hackamore. My GG and GF rarely used the spade bit for the same reason another viewer mentioned - working with metal in the mouth.
While my GG used the spade working, my GF taught me “..relationship relationship relationship..” with the horse. “A horse that fully trusts its rider and a rider who properly que’s with weight shifts and touch won’t need the spade!”, he’d always say to me with a huge frown. 🤨 😜
He used his spurs only when working and had different types for different work. He also modified his saddle designs for comfort after traveling thru Spain and into Australia to study ranching styles. He was an incredible rider, invited to the Spanish Riding School to study, and was there for some time when I was quite young.
Your video was a treat. I really appreciate the visual aides with titles underneath. And again, your pace of speaking. Your work and time is appreciated! God bless you. Safe riding. 🐎.
Thank you for clarifying that the Vaqueros were Spanish not Mexican.
My family were some of the first colonizers of what is now California. At the time they were colonists of New Spain. *the Spanish are actually responsible for conquering a great vast majority of what we know as the American West, Southwest and South*
Unfortunately this will never be understood and anyone who is of Hispanic culture/ancestry will be deemed as "Mexican". This is a highly inaccurate categorization, assumption and stereotype.
But hey what can you do? Nothing really and theres no point in really debating it , because itll always be seen as "Mexican".
@@cortez0331 Very true, on all points!
What’s annoying, is people are more likely to call someone of Spanish descent from South America a Spaniard, than they are someone of Spanish descent here in America. Yet South American Spaniards are more often mixed race moreso than Spaniards here in America. And yes, we’re all lumped into “Mexican”.
Government paperwork asking for race drives me crazy as there is only a box for “Hispanic/Mexican”. I end up either leaving it blank, checking “White” and “Native American”, or filling in a Blank line if it’s available.
And really, it should be a moot point here in America - everyone is from somewhere else if one goes back far enough, even Native Americans! 😜😂
The beauty of America is its diversity.
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Vaqueros were mainly experienced Cattle Ranchers from Central and Northern Spain that emigrated to the Americas, particularly where land was available. Hence the Vaquero and Gaucho cultures. Los Ingleses de America that began arriving after annexation in 1848, learned Vaquero ranching and used much of the same Spanish equipment. Because Vacas required Rancheros y Villas, Misiones in nuevos territorios were key to ranching. The term Cowboy comes from Vaquero which is a literal translation. The late Marion Jones may disagree but Alta California was a sparsely populated region, and the ranches were deliberately staggered in development before 1848 in order to arrest any mass migration. At least that is what I assume. By the time the US had annexed Alta California, California itself probably had about 10,000 -15,000 Californio born Peninsulares. Good video though and it shows the changes from 1860s onwards. BTW, if you visited El Prado Madrid, there's a picture of a Spanish General who surveyed the territory of Texas. Took him several years before he returned to Spain.
@@worstchoresmadesimple6259 Thank you for sharing this beautiful history
It's called Mexican because people use anachronism and mixed things up but "Mexican" would be partly correct. Also the peninsular Spanish vaquero (saying solely "Spanish" would also be incorrect since every person that lived under the Spanish empire would be subjects to the Spanish crown, hence also Spanish by law) were different than the American Spanish/Mexican vaquero, equipment/techniques. Also if your family migrated from Northern Spain to Northern New Spain, then your family had to had landed first in Central New Spain (Mexico today), no one migrated directly to the now southwestern US.
Don’t forget about us Puncharoos….somewhere between the Puncher and the buckaroo!
Puncharoo video inbound this year.
My nephew is Hispanic and I try to tell him about the vaquero and he acts like I’m crazy and dumb for talking to him about it.
It's crazy, but Hispanic culture permeates almost all of Western American history.
thanks... btw, chaps in the west are pronounced "shaps" kraig jillson, bootmaker
They weren't Mexican immigrants, that land was still Mexico
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It wasn’t Mexico back them
@@carlosayala6754 all right, nueva vizcaya, alta California , Santa Fe de Nuevo México, they where all part of the imperio español , and that after the independence of México they became Mexican territory until 1848, do you have something else to say .
@@eframetal yes, i have a lot to say.
From 1821 to 1848 Mexico had little to nothing control over those territories, that’s exactly why they lost the war.
Now, Do you have anything else to say? Lol
Mexico didn't lose the war . The Mexican President in that time sold the land to USA. So yes California was Mexico
Good stuff!
Thanks
you hit the subject perfectly
thats a lot of gatorade on your shelf sir
I am a irish and Australian aboriginal blood , from the kimberley in Western Australia I worked and learned from three Texans from Amarillo in the panhandle their names was Chris bernarrrd, Danny cockerell and another cowboy y
Named illy Bob and a Ron rider with the surname of groves i was fifteen and chewed Copenhagen tobacco and ate beans by the bucket load, which I still feed my crew with today it was in the kimberley s , a place called kalwynyarda , in between Fitzroy and derby , buddy cockerell and Amy cockerell where on the neighbouring property Blina station we had a remuda of horses that we bought off the broome rodeo club of twenty six broncs ,that was our soon to be prized working horses , which in the end we where roping off , and I will never forget the bronc that carried the pack , which was its punishment for dropping me on the ground six times in ten minutes , it ran away and still It got me in trouble as I was in charge ot that snakey bronc, when it came to pay day we would saddle up and load the gooseneck and go off into the scrub and look for feral bulls to rope and load up into the gooseneck and take them into the local slaughterhouse in fitroy which was run by a fella name Norton, anyway mates I hope that they have found a comfort spot to fall when they got back to amarillo , I'm fifty-two now but still remember it as if it was yesterday I can still canteboeard a bronc like they showed me to and use a spade bit or bosall as I was shown , anyway thats a story of three Texans that bought the real cowboy way to the kimberley they whe r e a big influence to all the local ringers and bushman , to this day in fitzroy the people still have the you betcha and son of a added to there language , this is kimberley Smith signing off i was the one that rode beside them, adios amigos
Not sure if it counts as migration from Mexico. California was Mexico. Maybe, maybe they migrated from further south in Mexico but that might even be stretching it.
not all buckaroos use the nylon macate. and the word vaquero and buckaroo are the same word, it’s just that the white settlers a long time ago took the word vaquero and slowly made the word buckaroo. and the main difference between vaqueros and buckaroos is that buckaroos took things from both sides of the cowboy world. but it’s a great video though
Thanks for the comment. I was trying to firehose the information to everyone. Yes I would say that most buckaroos use the horsehair mecates.
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What about the charro?
I always wondered about all that, thanks for the vid.
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"as one of the most unjust (war) ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation" - Ulysses S Grant Mexico was still trying to recover from a 10 year war with Spain . I see a few Americans in this comment section trying to deny this land was stolen . To me the most iconic figure in the west & the best horseman in the world was and still is an olive/brown skinned man with a black mustache or beard. NOT John Wayne
That "Silver Buckaroo"(or brass) stirrup is called a Monel. Nice video
Thank you for the information!
Actully Buckaroo is the American translation of Vaquero. And instead of saying the V in vaquero its actully is a B
The way v is pronounced in Spanish it can be hard for an English speaker to discern the two. That's why cowboys also sometimes called their horsee cavallo
Great information,thank you!
No problem. Have a good day
again great video maybe more on this in greater detail..2nd time watching it..
The nylon mecate has been more popularized because it's cheaper, and looks good in shows. It's still more traditional for a buckaroo(at least here in MT/ID/WY that I've seen) to use horsehair or mohair mecate and get down.
California Bridle Horse has some good information on the traditional vaquero and buckaroo methods of horsemanship and gear, if you wanted to learn more about them. 🙂 Good video though!
Yes, I meant to say that buckaroos used both, but I forgot. Thanks for the information!
What about the cowboys of wyoming, Colorado and Montana? That's like 1/4 of cowboys