In the days of the vaqueros
Subtitle: America's first true cowboys
By: by Russell Freedman
Publisher: Sandpiper
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780547133652
Subjects: Social life and customs; Frontier and pioneer life; Mexican American cowboys; Cowboys; Manners and customs; Juvenile literature; Ranch life; History
Description: Introduces the Mexican ranch hands who developed the necessary skills for herding cattle and who instructed the inexperienced cowboys of the American West in their ways.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62) and index.
Table of contents: title: First of their kind; title: Rodeo; title: Haciendas and ranchos; title: Tools of the trade; title: Contests and Games; title: Vaqueros, buckaroos, and cowboys; title: Last of the vaqueros.