Author : Fernan Vargas
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (661 download)
Book Synopsis The Life and Knife of the Argentine Gaucho by : Fernan Vargas
Download or read book The Life and Knife of the Argentine Gaucho written by Fernan Vargas and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LIFE AND KNIFE OF THE ARGENTINE GAUCHO contains a selection of excerpts from textbooks and journals published in the 19th and early 2oth centuries. These accounts represent the candid observations of British and American researchers, journalists, and travelers to South America, and their first hand impressions of the Gauchos of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. The accounts paint a vivid picture of these somber and solitary riders who roamed the Pampas, and of the large knife-the facon-that was every Gaucho's faithful companion. The Gaucho was an exotic cowboy of mythical proportions, one who spoke a foreign language but who shared the cowboy's love of self-reliance, rugged independence, and autonomous freedom. Although today the Argentine Gaucho has followed the American cowboy into the setting sun, we still have a record of their deeds-whether real or fanciful-to fuel the desire for independence and freedom in future generations of rugged individualists.