Where in the USof A did the first cowboy roam ?

Answer 1

On Montauk, Long Island, New York ,Deep Hollow Ranch bills itself, credibly, as “the oldest cattle ranch in the U.S.A.” A cattle drive, from as far west as Patchogue, 70 miles away, ended in its green pastures in 1658. This continued into the 20th century to a certain degree. Cattle have been ranched on this particular property since that time. Not a region where one would expect the American "Cowboy" to have one of his places of origin.

Answer 2

When The First Cowboy Roamed, America Wasn't It's Full 50 States, Infact There Were Only 32. Bill Cassidy Is Said To Be The First Who Did This And He Roamed in Zion Canyon. Currently That Is New Mexico.

Answer 3

The original tradition of what today we think of as a cowboy has its
origins in Mexico , from the 16th Century , and possibly further
back to Spain. The Vaquero or Charro was a wrangler with
many of the attributes of the latter western cowboy.
What today is the state of Texas , was then a part of Mexico
but in the early 19th C , english speaking immigrants to the
Mexican territory took up the trade and it expanded after the US
took over the area in the 1830s.
Much of the image of the cowboy that we hold did not develop
until the advent of the continental train and with it mass cattle
herding. They were essentially corporate cowboys , hired to
bring cattle to the rail heads ,

Answer 4

This isn't my field of expertize, but men who worked with cattle became know as "cowboys" in the part of the States that reached across the Mississippi River and beyond. Cattle ranches were common in the plains of the mid west due to the availability of land for the vast grass and water lands that were needed to run the huge herds.

Answer 5

The Spanish invented what we now consider the cowboy tradition, beginning in medieval Spain. During the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought the tradition and their horses, the ancestors of the "wild" mustangs, with them to the New World through New Spain (later Mexico). Though popularly considered as an American icon, cowboys are a New Hispanic tradition, which originated in the Central States of Mexico, Jalisco and Michoacán, where the Mexican cowboy would eventually be known as a "charro". Historically, the northern parts of Mexico (New Mexico) originally included most of the territory of the American southwest including Texas and California.
In the early 1600s, the Spanish crown, and later independent Mexico, began offering empresario grants in what would later be Texas to US citizens who agreed to become Mexican citizens and convert to Catholicism. In 1821, Stephen F. Austin and his East Coast comrades became the first Anglo-Saxon community speaking Spanish. Following Texas independence in 1836, even more Americans immigrated into the empresario ranching areas of Texas. Here they were impressed by the Mexican vaquero culture, borrowing vocabulary and attire from their counterparts.

The buckaroo, describing a cowboy of the vaquero tradition who broke untrained horses, developed in California and bordering territories during the Spanish Colonial period. A distinct horse-handling culture remained, even after the Mexican War, that retained a stronger Spanish influence than that of Texas. The term buckaroo officially appeared in American English in 1889, derived (influenced by) 'buck', as folk etymology) from bakhara, itself an anglicized alternate since 1827 of vaquero, Spanish for cowherd, which itself originates in the Latin vaca ('cow'). The word is still used on occasion in the Great Basin and many areas of California and intermittently in the Pacific Northwest.

Following the American Civil War, vaquero culture diffused eastward and northward, combining with the cow herding traditions of the eastern United States that evolved as settlers moved west. Other influences developed out of Texas as cattle trails were created to meet up with the railroad lines of Kansas and Nebraska, and expanding ranching opportunities in the northwest.

Sharing a similar base, the "Texas" and "California" traditions merged to a large extent, though a few regional differences in equipment and riding style still remain.

Over time, the cowboys of the American West developed a personal culture of their own, a blend of frontier and Victorian values that even retained vestiges of chivalry. Such hazardous work in isolated conditions also bred a tradition of self-dependence and individualism, exemplified in their songs and poetry.

So in answer to your question, I would have to say Texas.
Take care.

Answer 6

" They had a home, where the buffalo roamed, and the deer and the antelope played. Where never was heard a discouraging word, and the skies were not cloudy all day. It was on the range". Not to be confused with "Stove-Top Stuffing".

Answer 7

Oklahomo

Answer 8

Southern United States. They were Vaqueros, which were Mexican cow herders.

Answer 9

They migrated up from Mexico.

Answer 10

on land hopefully