“Howdy” - The Cowboy from the Wild West -Text Srimal Fernando “Honesty is absolute - your word is your bond, a handshake is more binding than a contract” is an inspiring Cowboy saying . To add to that “The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives “- is a famous native red Indian saying A cowboy traditionally on horseback is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, especially in the western U.S. The cowboy has deep historic roots tracing back to Spain and the earliest European settlers . The word cowboy appeared in the English language by 1725. As English-speaking traders and settlers expanded westward, English and Spanish traditions, language and culture merged to some degree. Before the Mexican-American War in 1848. It was derived from vaca, meaning cow, which came from the Latin word vacca. Rodeo cowboys The word rodeo is from the Spanish rodear (to turn), which means roundup. Exhibitions such as those of Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West Show helped to popularize the image of the cowboy as an idealized representative of the tradition of chivalry. Over time, the cowboys of the American West developed a personal culture of their own, a blend of frontier Census records suggest that about 15% of all cowboys were of African-American ancestry n 2005, the United States Senate declared the fourth Saturday of July as National Day of the American Cowboy Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in Southern United States in the 1920s The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music; The late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres. In the aftermath of the British Invasion, many desired a return to the old values of rock n roll. (Cowboy from the Wild West Notes By Srimal Fernando )
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