• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    One third of the real cowboys were Mexican, another third were Black. Cowboy was a terrible job, and they were mostly despised as "saddle tramps’ until the sheep herder/cattle rancher wars. The ranchers, and later Wild West shows, played up the romance of the cowboy.