Cowboys

COWBOYS in BC have a history that is distinctive from their counterparts east of the ROCKY MTS, combining, it is said, the skills, equipment and clothing styles of the Mexican and Californian vaqueros with the British sense of law and order, the know-how of the FIRST NATIONS and the manners of the English gentleman. The BC CATTLE INDUSTRY originally obtained livestock from Oregon and California, and along with the cattle came the men who worked them. The original drovers (the term cowboy did...

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