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
Is a gaucho life better than one on the Sceptred Isles?
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2019
To see the gaucho at his best, that is where he will be found most interesting, one must go where he lives utterly free from all restraint, even the restraint of association.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
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
"He lived simply, and for others, at one with the gauchos and poor folk."
From US News ● Oct. 13, 2016
The gauchos of the southern provinces rose en masse to fight the unitarian regulars, while the generals of the latter began a series of campaigns against all the federalist provincial governments and caudillos.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
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South America - Middle School
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