Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.
The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.
I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.
I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.
There's no cowboys in England.
Cowboys, just like the word says.
It's been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.
Stray cattle roam every lane and alley, but we are building cow shelters and trying to resolve the problem.
I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.
When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.
I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.
If you're a single Sheila and you're trying to find an Australian bloke, you duck off down there to Australia. You go to the Red Centre: you'll find there's a few shearers, a few stockmen, and there you will find an Australian bloke.
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.
The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
I used to go to a dude ranch which is when you spend your holiday on a ranch so I became a bit of a cowboy.
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.
