gaucho

Gauchito Gil depicts a traditional Argentine cowboy known as the gaucho, a long-haired man with a mustache, red handkerchief around his neck and belt.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

There is even rural “gauchopunk” complete with gaucho androids dreaming of electric emus, conjured by Argentine writer Michel Nieva in a tongue-in-cheek reference to Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.

From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2022

Is a gaucho life better than one on the Sceptred Isles?

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2019

The gaucho born to the life is of the very best class of riders.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears

Past participants have included drovers from Australia and gauchos from South America.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

West’s collection of freaks, cons, cowboys and unpredictable women in his 1939 “The Day of the Locust” predates Steely Dan’s own collection of freaks, cons and gauchos by 33 years.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2018

“We used to see gauchos making their own bridles, knives, belts, all by hand. We decided to do the same thing, but in the city.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2018

“He lived simply, and for others, at one with the gauchos and poor folk.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

The gauchos I met when told that a skunk's bite is supposed in parts of the United States to cause a malady akin to hydrophobia were incredulous.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears