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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1696425" data-attributes="member: 1015">The spanish word you are looking for is vaquero, a term that is still used in southern and western Texas to describe cowboys or ranch hands.Your history also seems to be a little off.  While the Spaniards did start herding cattle in the new world as early as the 15th century, American ranchers in the 1850s developed a culture all their own that was a blend of victorian and frontier values, with attire and vocabulary influenced by the Mexicans.  This was the birth of the American cowboy, whose traditions are still carried on to this day in the western states.Finally, coming from a family of ranchers and cattle herders, I can assure you that cowboys do still exist, and they're not all migrant workers.</blockquote>