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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.
The Spaniards introduced the system of el rancho, with vaqueros being the workers who herded the cattle and conducting cattle drives.
Monolongual Mexican vaqueros witnessing the folly of such misuse of their implement would shout at the Gringos in excellent Desert Latin (as Spanish has been called): “Dale, dale!”
The various styles of saddles, from the Moorish to the Spanish war saddle, eventually changed when the vaqueros began making their own saddles, more suitable for riding hard and for quick mounting and dismounting.
The California Indians were trained by the Spanish missionaries to herd cattle, and they were the primary vaqueros until the mid-1800s.
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