It's been a while since we posted about our eclectic interests here at wonder | wander | world. In the tropics this year enjoying the blistering heat of an equatorial sun instead of our frozen northern winters of COVID times.
This incredible post about some brave pioneering cowboy women of the west caught our attention. What could their circumstances have been to make them decide to move out west when they did? How were their lives changed and affected as a result?
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The origins of the cowboy tradition come from Spain - beginning with the hacienda system of medieval Spain. This style of cattle ranching spread throughout much of the Iberian Peninsula and later was imported to the Americas.
In the Philippines we were similarly impacted by the arrival and invasion of Spain and the eventual galleon trade plied between our countries.
