Vaqueros y Charros, Waddies and Buckaroos: The African Roots of Cowboydom
This presentation will examine myths and realities about “cowboy culture” and particularly the world’s fascination/obsession with of a lone armed man on horseback as a misguided representative of a noble genre that has fed the world for centuries.
What we think we know about cowboys comes almost exclusively from popular culture, from dime novels to fiction books to the silver screen.
However, “Cowboy Ground Zero” extends farther back than Texas, Mexico, and even Spain to north and west Africa and herding technologies introduced to the Americas from these regions in the 16th century.
Presented by Michael R. Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
This event will be onsite in Sharp Auditorium as well as streamed virtually. Buy in-person tickets or virtual tickets today.
