Subject: Re: been warning about this for a while
The first cowboys were vaqueros.

As they say here on the CA Central Coast.... "we didn't cross the border... the border crossed us."

A song I started playing a few years ago mentions Captain Dana (related to Richard Henry Dana, author of Two Years Before The Mast) who married a Mexican so he could get a land grant on the central coast from the Mexican governor. He wanted Ojai. He got Nipomo.

Dave Stamey - The Vaquero Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...