Kendall Nelson on Cowboys

Quote from: "All of the skills, traditions, and ways of working with cattle are very much rooted in the Mexican vaquero...If you are a cowboy in the U.S. today, you have developed what you know from the vaquero."

Kendall Nelson on Cowboys

Related Lessons

lesson:
The Myth of the American Cowboy

Grades: AP/Honors/101

Subjects: Social Studies/History

How did Westward Expansion and the idea of Manifest Destiny inform the image of the cowboy in American culture?