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gaucho
gaucho , cowboy of the Argentine and Uruguayan pampas (grasslands). The typical gaucho, a familiar figure in the 18th and 19th cent., was a daring, skillful horseman and plainsman. As fighters, revolutionary soldiers, and campaigners in frequent internal struggles, they played a significant role i... Read more
llanos
llanos , Spanish American term for prairies, specifically those of the Orinoco River basin of N South America, in Venezuela and E Colombia. The llanos of the Orinoco are a vast, hot region of rolling savanna broken by low-lying mesas, scrub forest, and scattered palms. Elevation above sea level neve... Read more
Juan Facundo Quiroga
Juan Facundo Quiroga , 1790-1835, Argentine caudillo . One of the most brutal of the early gaucho chieftains, he was called el tigre de los llanos (the tiger of the plains). After a turbulent youth, Quiroga participated briefly in the 1810 revolution against Spain and then rose rapidly to become,... Read more
pampas
pampas , wide, flat, grassy plains of temperate S South America, c.300,000 sq mi (777,000 sq km), particularly in Argentina and extending into Uruguay. Although the region gradually rises to the west, it appears mostly level. Precipitation decreases from east to west. Trees are found only along wate... Read more
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel de Rosas , 1793-1877, Argentine dictator, governor of Buenos Aires prov. (1829-32, 1835-52). As a boy he served under Jacques de Liniers against the British invaders of the Rio de la Plata (1806-7). Most of his youth was spent in the cattle country, where he built his fortune through l... Read more
Uruguay
Uruguay , officially Oriental Republic of Uruguay, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,416,000), 68,536 sq mi (177,508 sq km), SE South America. The second smallest country (after Suriname) in South America, Uruguay extends from a short Atlantic coastline along the north bank of the Río de la Plata to... Read more
Argentina
Argentina , officially Argentine Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 39,538,000), 1,072,157 sq mi (2,776,889 sq km), S South America. Argentina is bordered by Chile on the west, Bolivia and Paraguay on the north, Brazil and Uruguay on the northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Buenos Aires ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "gaucho"

gaucho
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition gaucho , cowboy of the Argentine and Uruguayan pampas (grasslands). The typical gaucho, a familiar figure in the 18th and 19th cent...in the early years of the Argentine republic. Gaucho support of the federalists was instrumental in...
José Hernández
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...strong sympathies for the gauchos' cause but had also...countrymen who viewed the gaucho as a subject unworthy...to abuse and cheat the gauchos it recruited for the...unites with a fellow gaucho, Cruz, and eventually...recited and enjoyed by the gauchos themselves on their ranches...
Martín Güemes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...historical importance. Gaucho War Prior to the arrival...command of the groups of gauchos. G ü emes...Aires. Thus began the Gaucho War. The basic stratagem...xFC; emes and his gaucho followers was to cut...territory controlled by the gauchos, and any Spanish attempt...
Uruguay
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...Another central symbolic element is the figure of the gaucho. The original gauchos were an equestrian ethnic group similar to North...mercenaries for post-independence caudillos . The gaucho image has become the embodiment of the national character...
Argentina
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...populist sectors see only the gaucho tradition as the defining element...these interpretations. The gauchos were horsemen who tended cattle...stress the arabic origins of gaucho culture, claiming that arabic...elite sectors chose to adopt gauchos as a cultural icon. These...
Cattle Drives
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...and Central American cowboys, who were called "gauchos." These gauchos developed the chaps, spurs, saddles, and the techniques...Confederate cavalry plus freed ex-slaves and Mexican gauchos combined to provide a ready supply of skilled horsemen...
Spanish American literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...emphasis on the national scene, so characteristic of romanticism, gave rise to the gaucho literature of Argentina and Uruguay, an indigenous literary genre. The gaucho , long the hero of popular tales and ballads, became the subject of some of the...
pampas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...beef. Herds of cattle roamed freely over the Pampa, and the gaucho , the Argentine cowboy, was the region's dominant figure...unfriendly Native Americans were driven out of the region and the gaucho yielded to the farmer. In the 20th cent. agriculture remains...
Ricardo Güiráldez
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...evocative novel Don Segundo Sombra, about the passing away of the gaucho's style of life. Ricardo G ü ir á ldez was...special type of existence — the disappearing way of the gaucho — with a near-mythical quality. This was the culmination...
Uruguayans
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...outskirts of the city. In rural areas, Uruguayan cowboys, called gauchos, live in simple communal housing on farms where they work...and ties are appropriate attire for businessmen. Uruguay's gauchos (cow-boys) proudly wear the distinctive clothing of their...

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gaucho
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History gaucho A horseman of South America, often Indian or mestizo. Early in the 19th century the gauchos took part in the SPANISH-SOUTH AMERICAN...off estancias (estates), forcing many gauchos to become farmhands or peons.
Gaucho
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Gaucho one of mixed European and Indian people in S. America. XIX. — Sp., of native orig.
Torre Nilsson, Leopoldo
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Guido: sc); El pibe cabeza (Guido: sc) 1976 Piedra libre (Guido: sc) Other Films: 1975 Los gauchos judíos (Jewish Gauchos ) (co-pr) Publications By TORRE NILSSON: book— Entre sajones y el arrabal, edited by...
Scola, Ettore
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Opiate '67 ; Fifteen from Rome ) (Risi) (co-sc with Maccari); La visita (co-sc with Maccari) 1964 Il gaucho (The Gaucho ) (Risi) (co-sc); Alta infedeltà (High Infidelity ) (co-sc); Il magnifico cornuto (The Magnificent...
Gassman, Vittorio
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...as Capt. Nardoni) 1964 Se permettete parliamo di donne (Let's Talk about Women ) (Scola) (as Proteiforme Adamo); Il gaucho (Risi) (as Mario Ravicchio); La congiuntura (One Million Dollars ) (Scola) (as Don Giuliano) 1965 Slalom (Salce...
Dunne, Philip
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Pinky (Kazan) 1951 Anne of the Indies (Tourneur); David and Bathsheba (King) 1952 Lydia Bailey (Negulesco); Way of a Gaucho (Tourneur) (+ pr) 1953 The Robe (Koster) 1954 Demetrius and the Gladiators (Daves); The Egyptian (Curtiz) 1965 The...
Musuraca, Nicholas
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Gulch (De Lacey); When the Law Rides (De Lacey); The Avenging Rider (Fox); Terror (L. King); The Charge of the Gauchos (Kelley); Dog Justice (Storm) 1929 The Freckled Rascal (L. King); Gun Law (De Lacey or Burch); Idaho Red (De Lacey...
Plunkett, Walter
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...His Family Tree (C. Vidor); The Three Musketeers (Lee); The Rainmakers (Guiol); To Beat the Band (Stoloff); Hi, Gaucho! (Atkins); The Return of Peter Grimm (Nicholls); Annie Oakley (Stevens); Another Face (Cabanne); Captain Hurricane...
Adventurousness
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...avenging the evil deeds of King Philip. [Belg. Lit.: Ben é t, 325] Fabio 19th-century young runaway becomes gaucho; Argentinian Huckleberry Finn. [Arg. Lit.: Don Segundo Sombra ] Fabrizio del Dongo partisan of Napoleon, involved in...
Fernández, Emilio
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...scolo de un Dios 1973 La Choca 1975 Zona roja 1977 México norte 1978 Erótica Films as Actor: 1927 The Gaucho (Jones) 1933 Flying down to Rio (Freeland) (as dancer) 1934 Corazón bandolero (Sevilla) (as Chacal); Cruz...

Thesaurus entries related to "gaucho"

cowboy
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...cowboys on horseback synonyms : cattleman, cowhand, cowman, cowherd, herder, herdsman, drover, stockman, rancher, gaucho, vaquero; informal cowpuncher, cowpoke, broncobuster; dated buckaroo. • adjective informal  a cowboy...
hat
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...coonskin (cap) cowboy hat crown deerstalker derby Dolly Varden dunce cap engineer's cap fedora fez forage cap gangster hat gaucho hat glengarry graduation cap hard hat headdress helmet high hat homburg hunting cap Juliet cap kaffiyeh kepi knit cap leghorn...
pants
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...pants cargo pants chaps chinos clamdiggers cords corduroys culottes cutoffs dress pants dungarees flannels flares galligaskins gauchos harem pants hip-huggers hot pants jeans jodhpurs khakis knee pants knickers overalls pajama pants palazzo pants pantalets...

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Land of the gauchos; Work on the estancia starts with the sunrise.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/19/2002; 700+ words ; ...baggy pants complete the gaucho look. [Photo by Harvey...Estancia Quemquemtreu supplies gauchos with long strips of beef...Mapuche Indian, a southern gaucho, prepares for a day on...few trees in Argentina. Gauchos (below) ride on the pampas...
Macho Gaucho
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; The gauchos of old Argentina were a proud...or mercenaries. The nomadic gaucho lifestyle came to an end along...dance known, logically, as gaucho. As danced by Argentine-born Claudio Otero, gaucho surpasses flamenco in terms...
COLUMN: Gaucho pant craze invading womens' wardrobes
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/21/2005; ; 594 words ; ...skirts, girls seem to assume that gaucho pants can work with everything. What will it be today? Gauchos and sweatshirt for the sporty look...you're set for the night. Yes, gaucho pants were made to be worn for any...
The new Taurus Gauchos! Single action-action.
Magazine article from: American Handgunner; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...mounted on the hammer, the Gaucho has a hammer with a series...means that technically the Gaucho can safely be carried with...rubber grips from my sample Gauchos I was truly surprised to see...dismounted I saw why. The Gaucho's leaf mainspring is slotted...
Cold Creek Capital Inc. Announces New Qualifying Transaction and Letter of Intent With Gaucho Exploration (SA) Ltd.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 4/26/2007; 700+ words ; ...into a letter of intent dated April 26, 2007 (the Gaucho Agreement ), for the acquisition, directly or indirectly, of all the issued and outstanding shares (the Gaucho Shares ) of Gaucho Exploration (SA) Ltd. ( Gaucho ), a private corporation...
Iconic Steakhouse El Gaucho Opens in Bellevue, Washington.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 12/9/2008; 700+ words ; ...see also El Gaucho). El Gaucho Bellevue is the only high...every Mackay restaurant), El Gaucho Bellevue proffers its own distinct...Belltown, Tacoma and Portland El Gauchos, the Bellevue location has...rooms of varying sizes. El Gaucho Bellevue is the fourth location...
Profile: Shrine to Argentinian gaucho Antonio Gil
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 10/10/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...2004 Profile: Shrine to Argentinian gaucho Antonio Gil Host: LIANE HANSEN Time...prayers to the spirit of a 19th century gaucho. Little is known about the cowboy Antonio...shacks. Red is the color of legendary gaucho Antonio Gil, and the closer you get to...
Gauchos sink Warriors, leave with split
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 2/3/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Warriors, who had blasted the visiting Gauchos off the court at midweek, apparently...became Friday's predator. The No. 5 Gauchos (4-2 overall, 2-2 MPSF) handed...played well at critical times," said Gauchos head coach Ken Preston. "The other night...
Poly sweeps Gauchos for first time since '98
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/15/2007; ; 686 words ; ...Conference) completed the sweep of the UCSB Gauchos (15-8, 6-4) at Mott Gym. The game...Mustangs reached double figures while four Gauchos hit the deuces. Assists outnumbered turnovers...their hunger. Poly has not swept the Gauchos since 1998 and tonight marked a gleaming...
Dirtbags fall to Gauchos in double header
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/15/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...at Blair Field. The Gauchos won the first two games...Carrithers scored the Gaucho's first run in the...the score at one. The Gauchos added two runs in the...escape the jam. The Gauchos added another run in...Dirtbags chipped away at the Gaucho lead with a couple of...