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Lets talk buckaroo...........

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Hooks

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I kinda drug this over from "THE OTHER" thread where I noticed OT & Kola slammin buckaroos. There were also a couple other shots taken at 'em with one sole defender (FH).
I've had the opportunity to work with a few & have long admired both their skill with a rope & a horse, not to mention some's ability to make about the nicest bits I've ever seen. I like their style as well as their gear and although I'm far from being as skilled as they are, I find myself emulating 'em in my own way. I do get some ribbin when I help friends in the southwest, but I've noticed that even now some of them adaptin chinks and such.
So anyway, what does everybody think?

BTW-I'm definitelty not light in the loafers OT...............
 
ACTUAL skill is fine.....but just sitting around in your drawers all day looking at the computer screen, watching old westerns on the side at the same time....talkling about it all..is a whole 'nuther elephant!!!
 
I think......I need to study the term Buckaroo,never have heard anyone use it around TX,dont mean it aint done, just never have come across anyone using it................good luck
 
While Buckaroo is a term that can be used as derogatory as cowboy or farmer sometimes is --I think it real origin and meaning, it is a geographical description --
no better no worse than puncher, cowboy, vaquero etc. ----

They may dress a little different, have a little different gear, (usually for a functional reason) ---but they have the same job --moving cattle around --

We all know the label doesn't make the man -- and it usually gets proven on a regular basis --- and usually the label is first stamped authentic (or not) NOT by skill seen on the range, but the words from the mouth -- those that could brag, don't. :)
 
Hooks, I totally agree wiyh what you said. You are a gentleman in the first degree.

Good Golly Kolano.... Who spends more time on here scrapping and bitin' more than you do?
 
Julie said:
While Buckaroo is a term that can be used as derogatory as cowboy or farmer sometimes is --I think it real origin and meaning, it is a geographical description --
no better no worse than puncher, cowboy, vaquero etc. ----

They may dress a little different, have a little different gear, (usually for a functional reason) ---but they have the same job --moving cattle around --

We all know the label doesn't make the man -- and it usually gets proven on a regular basis --- and usually the label is first stamped authentic (or not) NOT by skill seen on the range, but the words from the mouth -- those that could brag, don't. :)
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Julie--I think you hit it...Its a regional thing-- and thats what I tried to point out on the hat thread...Just like chinks--I'd never saw them until 20 years ago or so....I never even heard the term buckaroo used like FH said about someone with horses--except I never heard the term "horse whisperer" either until after that movie...
Around here if someone is good with horses- they may say he is a "hand with a horse"-- good people with cattle are referred to as a cowboy or cowhand ...The buckaroo and horse whisperer both are terms that appeared in the last 20 years or so-- and not used much around here...
Like I said before- I've only saw it used when referring to a little kid as "my little buckaroo" or in the "YOOOOOUUUU HOOOOOOO Buckaroo" manner...Even in my travels around the country rodeoing, I had never heard it....But that was 40 some years ago-- then if you called someone a buckaroo, you'd probably end up on your butt.....
You have to remember- very little Tex-Mex influence in this area, as compared to other parts of the west..(altho last few days, we're getting the bad side of the Mex influence- but thats another story)....
 
I did a series of articles about regional cowboys and their gear and dress --I'd have done more if I'd known more first hand --I don't trust everything I find on the internet (oh shock!)

But the blending of cowboy cultures has as you pointed out, increased over the past 20 years. And influences in NM from Texas and Texas from points north. I never saw chinks before I moved to NM --my dad wore "leggin's" -- laced, no zippers --just stepped into them every morning. He made them himself. When I was an adult we made him a new pair and he was delighted when I sewed zippers into them.

My life resume has given me opportunity to see more geographical cowboying than I care to remember --

I was raised on a Colorado mountain ranch --my parents moved to Tennessee and Kentucky for awhile --Dad was processing cattle in some feedlots there while observing tobacco farming and moonshine making!! :) :) --then they moved to Montana and stayed until he died.
Mom moved to NM to be with some friends and married a NM rancher --so in 1985 I moved to NM --throw in some Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska and good grief, California, living --and I need a suitcase with them stickers all over it!! I guess if I'd cowboyed all those places, I'd be called a drifter.

And then, although I've never had a Texas zip code, most of my really good friends are Texans and as you KNOW those Texans aren't shy about selling you their way of doin' it. And the differences is cowboys from the panhandle (which really is a melting pot of cowboys from everywhere come to be Texas feedlot cowboys!) to the brush hands in South Texas--- is as diverse as NM and Montana cowboys ---

I don't care what ya call me... :) just be friendly when you do :) :lol: :lol:
 
I didn't know buckaroo was a put down....... :???: I thought a buckaroo was the young ranch rodeo guys that wore the chinks and gus shaped hats with the beautiful bits and saddles and rode anything with hair and where all great hands with cattle and horses........

I guess I admired there flare and talent.......... :D
 
I thought a buckaroo was the young ranch rodeo guys that wore the chinks and gus shaped hats with the beautiful bits and saddles and rode anything with hair and where all great hands with cattle and horses........
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And indeed he is Katrina...

it's not a put down unless someone intends it to be --

I've heard people mean to PUT DOWN a fella by calling him Cowboy :) :)

It's how you say it that matters.
 
Saddletramp said:
Hooks, I totally agree wiyh what you said. You are a gentleman in the first degree.

Good Golly Kolano.... Who spends more time on here scrapping and bitin' more than you do?
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Ohhhh...I see I have a fan here!!!! :lol: :lol:
 
Thanks Saddletramp, comin from you thats one heck of a compliment.

Kola, I'm not sure I understand your remark :? I sure hope yall weren't referring to me. I wasn't meanin to single out anyone, I was curious as to what folks on here thought of the buckaroo style. From what I'm seein is that maybe the style isn't understood, but Julie seems to have put a pretty decent spin on it.

(but I really kinda like Katrina's description :wink: :-) )
 
Hooks said:
Thanks Saddletramp, comin from you thats one heck of a compliment.

Kola, I'm not sure I understand your remark :? I sure hope yall weren't referring to me. I wasn't meanin to single out anyone, I was curious as to what folks on here thought of the buckaroo style. From what I'm seein is that maybe the style isn't understood, but Julie seems to have put a pretty decent spin on it.

(but I really kinda like Katrina's description :wink: :-) )
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BY no means was I referring to you Hooks...sorry if it seemed that way.

I was referring to our infamous " AZ" person who claims to be a buckaroo......and HE gives the term a bad twist!.
 
An Australian term for a rodeo rider or occ. a cowboy thrown from his mount: a Buckaroo, also Bucka-roo.
 
nr said:
An Australian term for a rodeo rider or occ. a cowboy thrown from his mount: a Buckaroo, also Bucka-roo.
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Buckaroo, a cowboy of the vaquero tradition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckaroo
 
well wickipedia is closer than any of the rest of your guesses.
american cowboys bastardized lots of spanish terms:
ie: mecate-- became McCarty
jaquima-- became Hackamore
vaquero-- became Buckaroo
rodayeo(sp)-- became rodeo
la riata-- became lariet

Buckaroo is a cowhand of the spanish vaquero tradition:
single rig, slick horn, long rope, mostly found in Nevada, Oregon, Idaho,
parts of Utah, namely the great basin, that was settled by ranches influneced by the spanish missions that ran cattle and spread out from California.
it's nothing new either-- check out some of Charlie Russell's pictures
you'll see single rig dally men wearing chinks.
Montana was settled from both directions.
the texan's bringing cattle north
and oregon bringing cattle east-- hence the buckaroo tradition in some of Charlie Russell's pictures.
Buckaroo is both a noun and a verb:
just like a guy goes to cowboy for the Padlock, he goes to buckaroo for the ZX.
Just because he might be handy with a horse and rope doesn't mean a guy isn't handy with cattle too.
Every where I went I seemed to notice Ranching is an economic event,
not a fashion show.
just because a guy might look a little different than you doesn't mean he can't and doesn't do the same things.
a stuck calf seems to have to come out of the cow the same way, whether the guy helping is wearing chins, leggins, or coveralls,
I never made it to the Parker ranch over in hawaii--
but I'll bet somewhere somebody's pulled a cal in shorts.
Yes there are some culls that run around and call themselves buckaroo's
just as there are culls that run around and call themselves cowboys.
but there are allot of danm fine men that are proud to be called a buckaroo too!!
oh yes, out in the graet basin, the guy that starts colts is the "bronco man" cattle are gathered into a "rodear", on orphan calf is a" leppy"
and slick is a "oreana"
it is a regional thing.
 
I was referring to our infamous " AZ" person who claims to be a buckaroo......and HE gives the term a bad twist!.[/quote]


hey Kolan-- I think azcowpuncher claims to be a "cowpuncher"
not a buckaroo!!!
I might not be able to find his picture on a computer but I can tell you from his name"cowpuncher" he's a tie hard double rig man that wears leggins, probably a taco shaped hat---

oh yea--- and he chews Copenhagen!!!
 
Just while we are on the subject of what a man (or woman) working cattle is called....I knew some West Texas hands years ago that would fight if you called them a Puncher, or cowpuncher.....They said that a Cowpoke, or cow puncher was a salebarn hand, or a feed lot hand, and "poked or punched cattle...up and down chutes and not out on the range.
I always thought it strange that the Buckroos I knew had a slick fork saddle and bucking rolls....but I am sure there is a reason that just does not come to me, since I am not from that country!
Just my two cents worth

Ross
 
Thanks Lonecowboy, I think that helped alota folks.
Also, those interested may want to check this 'site:

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/104.3/wilder.html


And finally, we're good Kola. I didn't think I had "stuck anything out there for yall to smack" :wink: :lol:

Oh, and one more thing, didn't yall just acquire an outfit in the Northwest?
Ya may want to check out that site, cuz I'm guessin yall may have a number of them boys workin for yall :wink: :lol:
 

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