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Between the "cow-boy" and the "vaquero" there is only a slight line of demarcation. The one is usually an American, injured from boyhood to the excitments and hardships of his life, and the other represents in his blood the stock of the Mexicans, or it may be of the half-breed.

In their work, the methods of the two are similar, and to a certain extent the same is true of their associations. Your genuine vaquero, however, is generally, when off duty, more of a dandy in the style and get-up attire than his careless and impetuous compeer. He is fond of gaudy clothes, and when you see him riding well mounted into a frontier town, the first thought of an Eastern man is that a circus has broken loose in the neighborhood, and this is one of the performers. The familiar