Gauchos (South American cowboys) are fighting for the title of best rider.
Pretty dangerous competition, because they have to ride the horse of the Shrew that and tries to throw a cowboy.
At the word "cowboy" image pops up in my head macho John Wayne with a cigar in his mouth, a pair of Colts and a stern look, but is actually a cowboy (born cowboy, from the cow - «cow" and boy - «Boy") - the name, uses in the Wild West of the USA in relation to the shepherds of cattle.
Interestingly, the cowboy hat was invented by John Stetson (in English) in 1860. Is still popular in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico and the western provinces of Canada.
Rodeo (Spanish Rodeo) - a traditional sport historically started among Mexican and American cowboys. It is believed that as an open rodeo sport event held for the first time in the Texas town of Pecos in 1883.
Era cowboys began in 1865, when we had to drive away in a hijacking giant feral herds of cattle, mainly in the territory of Texas, and was completed about twenty years later.
Voproeki cinema thanks to the established opinion cowboys were not at war with the Indians. Indian War, which began in 1864, fought between Indian tribes and the U.S. Army. At times, the Indians themselves became cowboys because were able to stay in the saddle and shoot from childhood.
In the so-called cowboy towns lacked the women and some of the cowboys were dancing with each other. He portrayed a woman who puts on her hand with a handkerchief.
According to statistics, over the last hundred years, there were no more than 20,000 members of the profession.
About a third of the cowboys were blacks who obtained freedom after the Civil War, but not who had no job, no assets. Another third of the cowboys were Mexicans, and a third - the descendants of immigrants from Europe.
Working Cowboy considered nizkoplachivaemoy, he was getting 25-40 dollars a month. For this reason, a rare cowboy had his own horse, they usually work for the master's horse.
Earnings cowboy was small, and in the winter, many cowboys were forced to work on a ranch just for food and shelter. The relatively large amount of money received only for cowboys driving of cattle. A significant part of the money spent on booze cowboy, and the most popular drink among the cowboys had a beer instead of whiskey, as is usually shown in westerns.
Cowboys hired overtake cattle, but the fun started when they returned with earned money. The authorities of the towns along the route of hiring thugs to protect the public from Razgulyaev cowboys.
In American history was the only president who was a cowboy by profession. This is Theodore Roosevelt. Early in his career, from 1883 to 1886, he worked as a cowboy.
First cowboy church was organized in the city of Waxahachie, Texas. Now cowboy Christian movement merged with the American Association of cowboy churches.