Regionally specific, cowboy is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, Buckaroo is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and cowpuncher mostly in Texas and surrounding states, Wiki.
Other terms include cowpoke, cowhand, and cowpuncher - all originating in the mid- to late-1800s. It is generally attributed to an Anglicizing of vaquero, but, apparently, one scholar has suggested that it possibly stems from the Arabic bakara or bakhara, meaning heifer. Another English word for cowboy, buckaroo, has a debatable etymology. Vaquero, of course, is rooted in the word vaca, or cow, and stems from the Latin vacca. A direct translation of the Spanish word vaquero, one who manages cattle from horseback, cowboy has come to mean the same thing - a man employed to take care of grazing cattle on a ranch (OED). Our term cowboy was first documented in the English language by 1725. The song could have been about an American cowboy, it heralded the usual tropes of cattle and open spaces and the call of the frontier, so it got me to thinking about cowboys everywhere - what are they called, what sets them apart country-to-country, when did we first start talking about cowboys etc.
One of the songs that piqued my interest was an old cowboy song, “Diamantina Drove” from Australia about the drovers, the equivalent of a cowboy.
WHERE DID THE TERM BUSBOY COME FROM TV
While Cox has played hundreds of roles in tv and film, I wasn’t expecting his music to be worth a listen, but it was. Last night I had the pleasure of hearing Ronny Cox, the actor who played Drew Ballinger in Deliverance and Richard “Dick” Jones in RoboCop, perform his country western music at a small venue.
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