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The vaquero was the early Hispano cowboy and the antecedent of the Hollywood cowboy.
In this sense it dates from the 1870s, and, of the several conjectural etymologies, those that link it with the Spanish vaquero or the English Jacky Raw seem at least possible.
One theory is that when flour tortillas became available in northern Mexico, tacos de frijoles, or bean burritos, were easy to carry in the saddle-bags of the vaqueros (cowboys), so for this reason they came to be called burritos as though they were the sidekicks of the vaquero’s horse.
Rojas makes a distinction between the cowboy, the vaquero, and the buckaroo.
The vaquero or buckaroo is a westerner and the cowboy is a southerner.