What types of things did cowboys do in the Old West and out west now?

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@farmerman,

I am going to start a new thread. I botched this one up. Apparently people here just want to post a bunch of frivilous responses. FIXED.

Hey ,DUMMY.The word is frivolous.
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@farmerman,

I am going to start a new thread. I botched this one up. Apparently people here just want to post a bunch of frivolous responses. FIXED.

These days, cowboys can become President...



Old West cowboy movie

Today's West cowboy movie


Today's hard-drinking cowboy might go into rehab.


If he walks into the bar and says, "The drinks are on me", he'd probably pay with this..


He knows how to stay connected..



And he relaxes by watching other Cowboys on his flat screen TV.

Of course you are. You haven't gotten your attention quota for the day.

How were black, Hispanic and Asian cowboys treated in the Old West?

I don't think there were any Asian cowboys, considering there were racist immigration laws to keep them out, and mainly as far as I know they just worked on railroad consturction gangs. There were a lot of black cowboys, especially after the Civil War (and black cavalry soldiers fighting the Indian Wars), but it was also their trade while they were still slaves (guess who got paid for it then, and who didn't). Try googling" black cowboy".

Mexican vaqueros had three centuries of experience at cowboying before the first white boys showed up, and everything they ever knew came from what the vagueros taught them. Then the gringos started treating the Mexicans like second-class citizens, and the "freedom-loving" Texans took Tejas away from them because the Mexicans had the gall to outlaw slavery and try to stop the Texans-to-be from keeping slaves. Jim Bowie, the "hero"of the Alamo, was a slave trader

There had to have been some Chinese cowboys, according to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Old_West

The Chinese worked on the San Francisco railroads.

wikipedia:Railroad workers were not cowboys.

There were native Hawaiian ( i.e. Polynesian) cowboys. Mexican vagueros were imported in the 1800s to work the cattle on Hawaiian plantations, and they taught the Hawaiians. They brought along their guitars, which fascinated the Hawaiians. Hawaiian slack-key guitar playing today derives from those Mexican cowboys.

Utah Phillips made the point that there were a hell of a lot more miners than cowboys in the old West, but it's much more difficult to write a thrilling dime novel or make a shoot-em-up Western movie about miners in a hole in the ground than it is about cowboys, so the cowboys got all the publicity.

A large percent of the soldiers in the old west if not the majority after the civil war were black men.

Something you do not see in the movies.

Here is a short video of actual cowboys doing what actual cowboys do today:

Cowboys like country/western music, rodeos and gambling.

They like beans too.

Is BBQ sauce big business out West?

Most barbecue sauce is made in New York City.

What other things are popular among cowboys?

whist, pressing wildflowers , hunting for indian artifacts, watercolor painting, shooing horses, drinking single gut rot-gut whiskey , scrimshaw .
Those are some of the things Ive heard about from folks who know these things and have always been sources of strait arrow facts.

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