Why are cowboys called so, when they are most seen with horses?
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The cut and paste tired me out.  I no longer have the strength, will or spirit to answer...sorry.
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His horse's name was Friday
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five mounted cowboys and dozen or more.
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I think its from cowboys...the things they wear on cowboy boots are called spurs. They were renamed by Angelo Drossos and Red McCombs. Spurs...cowboys i guess its supposed to be synonymous to Texas? \n\n\n"A spur is a metal instrument composed of a shank, neck, and prick, rowel (sharp-toothed wheel), or blunted end fastened to the heel of a horsemans boot for the purpose of goading the horse"(from wikipedia)
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the original saddles used by the american 'cowboy' didn't have a saddle horn. originally, the ideal came from south of the border, from the vaquero's same place the lariat came from. which was originally 'riata', and bronc busters found that the original saddles they had used were excellent for busting a bronc. and those types of saddles are still made for the bronc busting 'cowboy'
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Cowboys and Indians,   Duh
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Who far*ed, there's a race horse with the same name.
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I Love cowboys!! they goodlooking ones with the tight jeans........ I saw a bumper sticker the other day it said"save a horse ride a cowboy" yeehaw.. I refused to watch brokeback mountain.... dont want to burst my bubble lol
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A person that rides horses, raises cattle, and works on a ranch.\nThere are not too many true cowboys left.
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it probably relates to the greek horse which was a gift to the city of troy . . \n\nsolidiers were hidden in the horse and let the Greeks into the castle during the night, and the greeks eventually won the war.
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This is actually a direct reference to the Trojan Horse being used at the tail end of the Trojan Wars.  The horse was of a different color (method of thinking) than the besiegers, so it was considered a novel idea and trustworthy.
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We hear the term gee used in the city as well as the country today, in the form gee-gee, a hypochoristic (baby talk) term for a horse.  Now that we have discussed the word gee, it is probably not difficult to see whence gee-gee came.  The word used to direct a horse simply came to apply to the horse. Children in the early 19th century saw horses on a daily basis, in many cases. The youngest children, just learning to speak, would hear men shouting "Gee!" to their horses, and so they, very logically for children, applied that word to the animal. It became gee-gee after the pattern of other children's words for animals, such as bow-wow for dog and kitty cat for cat, though it was still found as gee alone, as well. The earliest record of the gee-gee usage is 1869, and this one is from 1886: "To carry two heavy boys... on his back, pretending that he was a gee-gee." It was certainly being used as early as the first part of the 19th century, however; it usually takes some time for slang or children's words to find their way into written form.\n\nSo when a farmer calls haw and gee to his horses, he is etymologically saying hey and go!
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Horses have genes, and those genes determine what the horse will look like.  If there wasn't genetic variation, all the horses would look the same.
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To name a thoroughbred takes a serious effort.  There are certain rules one must go by.  Check the referenced web site and you will see what I mean.  However, if I owned a beautiful race horse like you asked, I would call him:  MUDINYOUREYE\nFor a filly/mare it would be:  MUDINYOUREYE\n\nThe reason is because I would expect my horse to be in front kicking up mud in the eyes of all the other race horses.
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Horses weigh 2000 pounds.  Their ankles (where most breaks occur) and lower legs are as thin or thinner than ours.\nThat is one reason.\nThe second reason is that in order for a bone to heal properly it has to be stayed off of.  Horses are unable to stay off a leg for the length of time it takes to heal a bone.  So they would end up breaking it over and over again.  Thus, when a break is too extreme, the horse is put down.
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its called a farrier ( but im not sure if thats the spelling .. it can olso be called a black smith , we just had my horses feet done last week.
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His horse is named Friday.