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Washington — He was born an Easterner, rode a Moorish horse, took his ways from Mexico, and became a legend. His business title: American cowboy.
Today, often enough, the cowboy is a college man. He inspects electric fences in a Piper Cub. His range reaches to the Florida ‘Glades, ranches near Philadelphia, the prairies of Long Island. He’s a capitalist.
Whence came the first cowboy, however? From Ireland, from Spain, from backwoods Massachusetts, from tidewater Virginia, the National Geographic Society says. He rode a long trail to become a hero of the Old West. Tory “Cow-boys”
By Webster and other weighty dictionaries, a “cowboy” is (1) A boy who tends cows, (2) A Tory marauder and cattle-raider north of New York City in the Revolutionary War, and (3) A mounted western cattle herder.
Both word and job are older than 1776 in this country, yet at the same time considerably younger. Red and black kine grazed on the Commons of Jamestown and in Puritan Massachusetts by 1635. About 1655—full 300 years ago—cattle were driven east to Boston from the then farwest outpost of Springfield on the Connecticut River.
Though English and Scotsmen used “cowherd” or “drov
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