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Didn’t Native Americans use horses? So they were using European horses?
by chrischen 7y ago
Didn’t Native Americans use horses? So they were using European horses?
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoYes they were European horses, first brought by the Spanish. Once they arrived Native Americans started using horses quite quickly.
- huherto 7y agoAs an interesting cultural bullet. The American Cowboy tradition is heavily influenced by the Northern-Mexican Vaqueros.
- mc32 7y agoWhat about gauchos? Argentina used to supply a lot of beef to the word such that they had been prosperous at one time.
- huherto 7y agoVaqueros, Gauchos and Llaneros(Venezuela) probably have the same origin in horse riding country side people on the Iberian Península. But I doubt the Gauchos influenced the Cowboys since they are far, far away.
- hammock 7y agoMakes sense, since Mexico is where the Spanish were.
- BurningFrog 7y agoWild European horses reached many native peoples already in the 1600s, long before they had met any actual Europeans.