"The Wandering Vaqueros of California" Topic

"I'm hard at work on a two-volume history of the clothing worn in California during the Mexican and early American eras (1822-1860). It's a big job, so I'm not able to post long articles for a while. What I plan to do is to post bits of my research that I hope will interest you until I can find time to write longer pieces. Most of these will follow the work I'm doing on the book, but there should be some variety. California has long been a place where many cultures come together and just in the years 1822-1847 there were Mexicans, Russians, merchant seamen, mountain men, Hudson's Bay Company trappers, Nez Perce Indians, overland settlers and the American Navy, Marines and Army. I'll also post on other subjects as they come up. I hope you'll find it interesting.

One of the things I love about the American West is how cultures met and mingled there in what were sometimes fantastic combinations. One example of this were the vaqueros, cowboys, from then-Mexican California, who ended up in Hawaii, hunting cattle. Think of it, these vaqueros from the coastal hills of California, who had grown up staring at the immense expanse of the Pacific, one day boarded a ship and ventured out upon that ocean to travel more than 2,000 miles to an unknown land. Some of these vaqueros stayed in Hawaii, continued their ranching life and taught their skills to Native Hawaiians. There are still cowboys in Hawaii who honor this tradition and are known as Paniolo, which was the local way to pronounce "Espaņol" – Spaniard…"
Full article here
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Amicalement
Armand

Thanks Tango another great find.
Greg

Happy you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

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Armand

Does anyone produce them in 54mm plastic?