gaucho
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The tale is believed to be based on the life of the gaucho Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez, though little is known about his life.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
There is even rural “gauchopunk” complete with gaucho androids dreaming of electric emus, conjured by Argentine writer Michel Nieva in a tongue-in-cheek reference to Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.
From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2022
Sorority sisters wearing skirts and gaucho hats worked as greeters.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2021
That the gaucho is hospitable, and in his way generous, need not be said.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
As I left the ranch, the gauchos came up to meet me.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
West’s collection of freaks, cons, cowboys and unpredictable women in his 1939 “The Day of the Locust” predates Steely Dan’s own collection of freaks, cons and gauchos by 33 years.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2018
“We used to see gauchos making their own bridles, knives, belts, all by hand. We decided to do the same thing, but in the city.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2018
“He lived simply, and for others, at one with the gauchos and poor folk.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2016
The bar was thrust into the ground so that the beef was inclined like a shelter tent above the blazing fire, and there it remained for about two hours, being turned occasionally by the gauchos.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
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South America - Middle School
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