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What do cowboys in the western United States have to do with?
The United States is an immigrant country, without nobles, and it is easy to produce the tradition of "getting rich through labor". This is the core of American thought. The "American Dream" means that a self-made man can finally make a fortune.

With the gradual spread of this idea, immigrant countries are bound to be influenced by sailor's thought, which further deepens the creation of wealth through labor and liberalism and individualism. In addition, the establishment and gradual expansion of American farms in the west have created a large number of cowboys. These cowboys wandered from farm to farm, lived by herding cattle and driving away robbers, and gradually accumulated wealth. Later, they bought their own farms, made a fortune, and then boasted about the true or false stories of their youth. At that time, cowboys were dressed differently than we are now.

Americans from the 1950s to the early 1970s were called the "Beat Generation". They don't have much money and don't go out to work, so they can't afford beautiful and shiny clothes. So canvas and khaki are widely used. This very comfortable dress just meets people's demand for freedom. Later, an "attached pocket" was added (the pocket used to hold the lighter when marching), which was just enough to hold and stick the zippo lighter. Zippo was still a low-priced product at that time. This is the origin of jeans that are widely popular nowadays. In other words, jeans have nothing to do with cowboy culture, but have a lot to do with "happys".

Hero on horseback-American cowboy

The "westerns" in Hollywood in the United States once swept the world and still have infinite charm. In the film, people can often see: a tall and strong cowboy, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, tights, narrow-legged pants, boots, and a fire truck gun hanging from his hip. When the gangsters fell to the ground one by one, they rode away as if nothing had happened.

Romantic legends, coupled with exciting gun battles and fights, seem to constitute the whole content of cowboy life. However, movies are not history after all. In American history, cowboy's life is not riding a horse to chase gangsters and fight violence. They are pioneers in the development of the western United States. They are adventurous and hardworking, so they are called "heroes on horseback" by Americans.

If you want to talk about American cowboys, you must first talk about American cows.

Americans are descendants of European immigrants, and American cattle are descendants of Europe. Cows in America were originally brought by Columbus. At that time, he brought Spanish cattle to the West Indies and the coastal areas of Central and South America. 1525, Spanish cattle began to be introduced to the North American continent from the West Indies. 16 1 1 year, the British transported a large number of cattle to Virginia.

James City, since then, British cattle have been widely propagated in the North American continent, where there have been many breeding grounds.

1540, Spanish explorer coronado crossed the Atlantic Ocean and searched for the legendary "Seven Treasures City of Seppola" in North America. He also took 500 cows to northern Mexico today and Arizona today.

Since then, cattle have been breeding and gradually spread all over northern Mexico and Jalisco. By the beginning of17th century, there were more than 65,438+10,000 cows in Jalisco.

In short, American cattle entered from the east and south and gradually spread all over the country. /kloc-In the early 8th century, cows appeared in Ohio and Kentucky. Kentucky means grassland in Indian, and it is also known as the state of green grass. Illinois, which is adjacent to Kentucky, is called "grassland country" by Indians and is a paradise for cattle. By the middle of the19th century, the technology of taming and raising cattle there was very clever. After the Civil War, cattle moved westward to the vast grassland west of the Mississippi River, which became the "cattle kingdom".

Spanish cattle imported from southern Mexico also proliferated. /kloc-In the late 20th century, Texas had 50 million cows, making it the state with the largest number of cows in the United States. From 65438 to the 1960s, Texans drove a large number of cattle northward to the railroad side of Kansas and then resold them all over the United States. At that time, there were also special "Niu Dao" and "Niu Zhen". "Niudao" is

"Niu" takes the road, and "Niu Town" is a stop along the way.

Cattle travel long distances through states and counties. Of course, they need someone to lead and take care of them. Such people are "heroes on horseback"-cowboys. In the long and arduous journey, cowboys must be hard-working, witty and brave, calm and calm, and be able to cope with all kinds of unexpected accidents and dangers on the way. First of all, we should control semi-tame cattle, especially fierce Spanish cattle. The cowboys followed the cattle, keeping an eye on them and not relaxing for a moment. Along the way, we should also pay attention to the attacks of wild animals such as wolves, poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, and guard against Indian cold arrows and javelins. Sometimes there may be sudden thunderstorms. Lightning and thunder often lead to panic and cattle running around. Cowboys should calmly circle around them and form a circle to eliminate panic.

Cowboys travel long distances with cattle like a large-scale March. Cowboys escorting oversized cows should have a strict division of labor and perform their duties. There are often two most experienced people as the chief commander and a correspondent, who are responsible for passing messages around. In addition, there is a "tour ride", which patrols flexibly from front to back and left and right. "Yiqi" marched on both sides of the team, and "Weiqi" was behind the house, specializing in calves, sick cows and lazy cows.

Cowboys, some of whom are herders themselves, are mostly employees of livestock merchants, and they have played an important role in the westward migration of residents in the eastern United States. Cowboys' long-distance grazing is pioneering in itself, and they directly open the way for people who move westward.

/kloc-at the end of 0/9, the traffic in the United States is increasingly developed, and the status of cowboys is gradually decreasing. They jumped ship one after another, and people saw their lithe figures less and less. But their enterprising and pioneering spirit has always inspired Americans.

People often associate cowboys with jeans. In fact, the most prominent symbol of cowboys in those days was not jeans, but their hats. Cowboys often wear Mexican-style wide-brimmed top hats, which have many uses. They can not only help keep out the hot sun and rain, but also be used as pillows and even scoop water for drinking. Jeans first appeared in1the early 1950s in the western United States. 1In the 1940s, gold mines were discovered in California, and people rushed to find gold. There's a guy named Levi? Strauss's men also arrived in California. He used to be a cloth dealer and brought some canvas to make tents and roofs. Once, he found that the cotton trousers worn by the gold digger were very easy to break, so he had a brainwave and cut the thick canvas he brought into pants for sale. Pants are designed in the style of low waist, straight tube and small hip circumference, which is very popular with gold diggers. Before long, more cowboys also liked this kind of clothing, which was later called "jeans".

Levi? Strauss gave up his plan to seek gold and made a fortune by selling trousers. Later, he changed the material of trousers to indigo twill coarse cloth and applied for a patent at 187 1 to establish Levi's? Strauss Company ",which later developed into a multinational company, has a sales network all over the world and earns hundreds of millions of dollars every year.