This picture was taken in 1910, four years before the First World War. The world was changing rapidly. Cars were spreading and flying began at the hands of the Wright brothers. Cowboys or cowboys, including the man sitting next to his horse in Texas, began to extinct years later. The glory in which they dominated the states of the American West and American culture.
In the years when the Americans occupied the civil war in the middle of the 19th century, the number of wild animals in the vast grazing areas increased, reaching millions of livestock. When the war ended, the need arose for hard men to feed, protect, and market livestock. . These tough men were the cowboys, not all of them white, at least a quarter of them Blacks, but the White Capoeira was the most dominant of American culture, and became a symbol of all America.
The cowboy was a man who lived alone in grazing areas away from cities, faced the dangers and tried to protect himself and protect the herd. The dangers included lightning, storms, drought, bandits, predators, industrial and natural traps. If he gets sick or sick, he saves cows if they get ill, and their herds lead hundreds of miles in the middle of these risks until they reach the market.
Like any other distinctive career of kawaboy, a distinctive uniform, a wide, high hat that protects him from the sun and rain, he can also use it as a pot to drink water or fold it as a sleeping pad. His coat was full of pockets to keep his tools, his money, his cigarettes and his tobacco, a handkerchief around the neck that protects his breath from dust , A high-necked shoe with a high pointed heel to dig into the ground if it needs to drag an animal or something.
But time has passed, electricity and modern technology have proliferated, cities and urbanization have flourished everywhere, and the need for cowboy has declined, but it has remained desirable in American movies.
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