These same cowboys and ranchers are also quick to point out that there're plenty of cowboy impostors and wannabes out there, too. The late writer John L. Sinclair, who wrote many stories for New Mexico Magazine throughout seven decades, wrote that anyone who has the guts to put his leg over the back of a horse and endure the elements and pitfalls of ranch life deserves to be called a cowboy. .
That's also the beauty of New Mexico. .
Diverse cultures have commingled here for centuries and the traditional cowboy lifestyle welcomes all races. One New Mexico cowboy philosophized that "the only color cows see is green - the color of the grass that they're lookin' to eat." But it's a good thing for lovers of cowboys that most cowpokes see colors besides green. You see, green's the color of money and a whole lot of them don't make much of that out on the range. .
No doubt today's cowboys aren't in it for the cash - otherwise, they'd probably starve. Sure, they'd love to make a comfortable living, doing what they enjoy most. Who wouldn't? Nowadays, however, there are a lot of things working against the cowboy that weren't issues in the past - from economics to environmentalism to land development. .
Cowboys just love the lifestyle - plain and simple - and they'll put up with any obstacles thrown at them just to be out on the range. It's been an obvious love affair between the cowboys and the land since the first cattle and horses were brought to New Mexico on Juan de Oñate's colonization expedition in 1598. .
The Nuevo Mexicanos or Hispanos, as they call themselves, developed a distinctive regional culture over four centuries, since the establishment of the Spanish colony in 1598. .
What became in time the Hispano homeland, the Upper Rio Grande, is a vast arid region defined by a life-giving river that descends from the steep southern ranges of the Rocky Mountains through the barren plateaus of the north to the Chihuahuan desert of the south.
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The Apache are believed to be one of the last cultures to have migrated to the North American Southwest between A.D. 1300 and 1600. In fact, evidence suggests that the Apache came to the American Southwest through Canada, only later moving to the area now known as New Mexico and Arizona. The Apache have always denied this theory, however, and they still believe they have always been a part of the American Southwest. ... Although a small minority in the United States today, the Apache are still a proud people, struggling to retain their heritage and honor the ancient traditions of their anc...
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., to A.D. 1540) man in the southwest hunted big game, such a mammoth, and all lived in open areas or cave shelters. Sandia Cave was the earliest known archeological site in the Southwest and has received national attention in the scientific field. ... All of their cultural mixes provided a unique heritage. ...
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced large numbers of native Indians to abandon their homelands of the South and Southwest and relocate to federal camps. The outcome was future generations of broken homes, lost heritage and tradition as well as large numbers of unemployed and poor resulting in mass depression, drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide. ...
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