![]() ![]() Among them you would largely find mestizo people (of mixed Native American and Spanish ancestry), Black people, Indigenous people and criollos (Spaniards born in North America). These vaqueros were itinerant freelancers, owning only what they could carry on horseback and working on large ranches in the regions now known as Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua-and well into what is now the United States. And it was in Mexico that the sport got its name, derived from the Spanish verb rodear: to encircle or round up. They also innovated rodeo fashion: leather boots, chaps, big hats and the rest. ![]() These ranch hands, known as vaqueros, perfected the roping and riding skills we see in today’s competitions. The modern gold-and-rhinestone, big-money televised sport of rodeo owes just about everything-its traditions, its attitudes, its fashions-to rough-and-tumble Mexican cowboys of the early 1800s. ![]()
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