Explore COWPUNCHER/BUCKAROO Differences: Two Cultures Collide 

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En Chihuahua se trabaja y el estilo es mas sencillo o mas parecido al cowpuncher, las chaparreras de uso son largas y amplias para cubrir de los mezquites o chaparrales. Saludos desde Chihuahua Mexico.

If you ever want to have some fun. Go visit any cattle town in Colorado. There is a serious mix between the two there. I’m from Northern Nevada and we would always give Texans a little friendly ribbing and vice versa. But in Colorado, it gets downright hilarious.

Buckaroos im one - tend to be a little slower to b more deliberate in handling cattle / avoiding injuries to cattle & horse etc as we are working a lot very far from home ranch. We prize good quiet horsemanship 60 ft ror longer ropes as we often are using "long loop" for catching horses on range. We also use working cow dogs on the gather btw my hats are grey or white with regular top crease the round top is more popular in Oregon and I use bosal and mecate for training. (very few buckaroos use spade bits even on finished horses

The cow(puncher )came from the stock yard and rail heads had to do with the stick they used to move cows down the alley ways

Buckaroo is short for Vaquero because back in the day most people could not pronounce vaquero. They seem to be a spin off from vaqueros and they're trying to keep the art of the Vaquero alive. I admire keeping the art of horsemanship alive. However, I prefer cowpuching all because I grew up around them. I'm just use to it.

I've heard the term buckaroo used as a jovial nickname plenty of times in my life, and I'm glad I looked it up out of curiosity because I had no idea there were two distinct cowboy cultures in America.

Can we just take a second to appreciate the name "Cow Puncher" for a minute?

best of friends after a fight or two. but never the less

Interesting video. The term buckaroo is a corruption of the Gullah-Geechee term “Buckra” which was what they called the itinerant cow hunters in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Ponce de Leon first introduced cattle into what is now the USA during his exploration of Florida in 1513 and 1521. They became what we know now as the cracker cattle and pineywoods cattle. Both have the same blood as longhorns, but the pinewoods cattle have a little more English breeding. When the English began settling the southeast coast, they brought cattle and pretty much let them forage in the longleaf pine forests and canebrakes that dominated the region. The animals quickly became feral and the herders became cow hunters who would search for the animals on horseback and with cow dogs. Since they were operating in forested terrain, they didn’t use ropes, they used whips to drive the cattle and specially trained “catch” dogs to catch them. The cow hunters and open range grazing of cattle moved west through the pineywoods into southeast Texas where they met, mingled and merged with the Spanish vacqueros in Texas. That’s where cowboys, cow punchers and buckaroos come from. All were cattle herders. Their equipment and methods were developed and adapted from the landscape they worked in; pineywoods, brush country of sagebrush. Read Terry Jordan’s Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of the Western Livestock Industry. It’s a very well researched and documented work about this.

Hard and fast refers to the rope being tied to the saddle horn by cowpunchers. Vaqueros didn't do this because they used rawhide reatas that would break if not allowed to slip when dallied around the horn. Vaquero horns are wrapped in hide to slip easily whereas team ropers use rubber to grab a synthetic rope to stop a calf quickly.

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There’s a cultural difference too. In the Union states, there’s a difference that carries to the modern day between ecofriendly somewhat progressive, yet libertarian buckaroos and the Confederate rebel authoritarian character of the cowpunchers. As a kid, I got lumped in with Texans since I was white and worked outdoors. But we almost never saw eye to eye, despite having parents from similar backgrounds. Those kids wanted to join the Marines to fight overseas. I wanted to work with the Coast Guard helping disaster areas. Ironically, they got stationed in Haiti passing out blankets, and I ended up guarding hardened criminals. Life is funny that way.

Thank you! Its kind of a misnomer to attribute the cowboy to mexicans when its origins are from white spain the Spanish have red and blonde hair with blue eyes from their celtic and germanic warrior ancestor who invented amazing horse skills that spread out from the indo- Europeans who bred and raised horses the originals.They brought horses to America. And the anglos have had horses every since the indo-europeans first conqured northern Europe!

Don’t ever refer to me as cowpuncher!! Southwest cowboys are cowboys, hands, waddie, or cowhands. In the days of shipping cattle by rail from the railheads of Kansas and mMissouri to the slaughter houses of Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago men were provided long poles to make sure cattle did not lay down in transit. When the steam locomotives stopped for water, coal, or wood, these guys would go along the train and poke any down cattle back on their feet with the long poles, therefore becoming “ cowpunchers”. Cowboys who chased wild cattle out of brush of the great Southwest were “brush poppers”. Not a puncher in sight.😊

6:26, Great Basin Hat CO. I've got more than a few felt hats from them😂

Mesquite brush everywhere, 110° by noon, I’ll let you figure it out…

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The term Buckaroo referred to the method of breaking horses... rope a horse, snub him to a post, blindfold him, saddle him! The cowboy mounted the horse and rode him til the horse "bucked out", or until he was thrown off. The horse was ridden like that by how many ever riders it took until the horse quit bucking. Thus the term "green broke" until the horse had further training. Most of that training was "on the job" while tending and herding cattle or doing ranch work. Not all horses were broken that way. My uncle was a foreman/manager for a ranch that was owned by my grandfather. They had over 3,000 head of cattle. Some of the best horses were brought up from Mexico. One dun stallion ran with the herd of mares and populated the area with the line back, black footed strong dun offspring. Noone every rode the dun stallion. Regards from Texas.

No the first cows and Cowboys were in Florida

Buccaneers, French Hunters and Marksmen (where we get the term Barbecue came from native term for smoking game meats, Baucca, the Buccaneers hunters were the know traders of. Maritime tradition and laws had a huge influence on cattle transportation, and all of the “shipping” industry and teamsters. Buckeye, buckwagon, buckaroo, terms for getting stock to buccaneers and swashbucklers. “Buck” in pirateering and wrangling was not for the buckles- it was for smoked meat and tanned hide, Buckskin.

It is all dissolving into the past. All things must pass and nothing can stay. Another will come

I hate to be this guy but Mr you might want to talk and work with some buckaroos and pen riders up here in the nw also the buckaroo culture is actually growing has been for decades. the cowboy culture and use of equipment is very need based, so you'll buckaroos with batwings and punchers with wade trees rapped in mule

Main difference is cowboys ride double rigged saddles and tie their ropes. Buckeroos ride center-fire saddles and dally

I guess cow”Pokie” is the same as cow Poke.

Th term hard and fast in reference to cowboys means they tie their ropes. Text me I'm a 73 year old ariz cowboy

Its called tying off not tying on

Cowboys stop to piss. Biuckeroos stop to cinch up

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I want to appreciate your videos, but you are missing so much historical facts. You omit massive amounts of historical facts about Texas and its history, 1 hour of internet research can do amazing things for all your videos. First, The term Buckaroo was first used for the North and South Carolina ranchers that moved to Texas. American Cowboying is a blend/marriage of the East coast Buckaroos and the south west Mexican Vaquero. And if you researched your content properly. You would understand this. Also, Texas was not "Taken" from Mexico, The united states paid for Texas, with real money. Just admit, you have some kind of agenda or bias in making these videos. Please do your research. I feel like if I watch any more of your video I am going to have to put you in the same category of false hood as the people that say the Japanese Ainu where not native to japan since they were white, and in fact tried to take the land from the Japanese.

“Cow punchers” actually work….. buckaroos dress talk and act like they “work”

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall seeing many of the "buckaroo" styles in the Great Basin states until the 80's and 90"s. I don't remember flat hats, buckaroo style high top boots, chinks or wild rags. Maybe they were out in the remote ranches, but mostly I remember just ranch/PRCA type cowboy styles in the 70's and 80's growing up. In fact, I don't recall the term "buckaroo" being big until towards the end of the 20th century. I remember studying Charles M. Russell and Frederick Remington paintings of (mostly) Montana cowboys, and they wore "campaign" (drill sergeant) hats and wore wooly or batwing chaps. One explanation for the origin of chinks is the frequent getting in and out of a pickup truck in our modern times. Makes sense. Full length batwings would be in the way, as anyone who watches rodeo rough stock events has seen lots of guys stumble and trip on their chaps trying to get away from a bull or bronc once they're on the ground.

Arizona seems to be an eclectic mix of both cow puncher and buckaroo style. Most parts of Southern and Central Arizona have heavy thorny brush and is similar to Texas. While northern Arizona has wide open prairie more similar to Nevada and Wyoming. Most cowboys in Arizona wear Texas style hats and buckaroo style chinks.