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[[Image:Rodeo.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Cowboys competing at a rodeo]]

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'''Cowboy''' is a term for a man hired by a rancher to drive or tend to cattle or horses on the open range, often on horseback, as well as maintaining the ranch fixtures and fencing.  Originating after 1850 from Mexican ''vaqueros'', the cowboy developed into an icon of the American west.

'''Cowboy''' is a term for a man hired by a rancher to drive or tend to [[cattle]] or [[horse]]s on the open range, often on horseback, as well as maintaining the ranch fixtures and fencing.  Originating after 1850 from [[Mexico|Mexican]] ''vaqueros'', the cowboy developed into an icon of the American west.

==References==

==References==

*[http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/ National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]

*[http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/ National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]