gaucho
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The tale is believed to be based on the life of the gaucho Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez, though little is known about his life.
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
Sorority sisters wearing skirts and gaucho hats worked as greeters.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2021
I was in a gaucho saloon up the river one day last summer," said a Buenos Ayres man to me, "when a Frenchman looking for a ranch to buy came in.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
Strip away the Humvees and athletic fields, and the base could be an Argentine estancia, home to gauchos instead of guardsmen.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2019
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
They are mud-walled huts, of course, but larger than the homes of the gauchos.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
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South America - Middle School
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