In the days of the vaqueros : America's first true cowboys / by Russell Freedman.
2001
F790.M5 F74 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
In the days of the vaqueros : America's first true cowboys / by Russell Freedman.
ISBN
0395967880
Publication Details
New York : Clarion Books, c2001.
Language
English
Description
70 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
F790.M5 F74 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
636.2/13/09236872073
Summary
Recounts the history of the vaqueros in the Spanish New World who mastered the art of cow herding and taught it to the inexperienced settlers of the American West three hundred years later.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62).
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Table of Contents
The first of their kind
Rodeo
Haciendas and ranchos
Tools of the trade
Contests and games
Vaqueros, buckaroos, and cowboys
The last of the vaqueros.
Rodeo
Haciendas and ranchos
Tools of the trade
Contests and games
Vaqueros, buckaroos, and cowboys
The last of the vaqueros.