Editing Cowboy (section)

====Buckaroos====
Some cowboys of the California tradition were dubbed ''buckaroos'' by English-speaking settlers. The words "buckaroo" and ''vaquero'' are still used on occasion in the [[Great Basin]], parts of California and, less often, in the [[Pacific Northwest]]. Elsewhere, the term "cowboy" is more common.<ref name="Buckaroos">{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crview03.html|title=Buckaroos: Views of a Western Way of Life|work=Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945–1982
|publisher=Library of Congress|year=1980|access-date=2010-08-06}}</ref>

The word ''buckaroo'' is generally believed to be an anglicized version of ''vaquero'' and shows phonological characteristics compatible with that origin.<ref name=cassidy1/><ref name=cassidy2>{{cite journal|last=Cassidy|first=F. G. and A. A. Hill|title=Buckaroo Once More|journal=American Speech|date=Summer 1979|volume=54|issue=2|doi=10.2307/455216 |jstor=455216|pages=151–153|publisher=Duke University Press}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=Gonzalez>{{cite journal |last=González|first=Félix Rodríguez|title=Spanish Contribution to American English Wordstock: An Overview|journal=Atlantis|date=December 2001|volume=23|issue=2|pages=83–90|publisher=Aedean: Asociación española de estudios anglo-americanos{{subscription required}}}}</ref><ref name=Smead>{{cite book|last=Smead|first=Ronald K|title=Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk: A Dictionary of Spanish Terms from the American West|year=2005|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|isbn=978-0-8061-3631-8|page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MR4SY5n3_L8C }}</ref> ''Buckaroo'' first appeared in American English in 1827.<ref name=Merriam>{{cite web|title=Buckaroo|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buckaroo|work=Merriam-Webster |date=n.d. |access-date=August 29, 2013}}</ref>  The word may also have developed with influences from the English word "buck" or [[bucking]], the behavior of young, untrained horses.<ref name=cassidy2/><!-- @ p. 152. --> In 1960, one etymologist suggested that ''buckaroo'' derives, through {{langx|gul|buckra}}, from the [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]] and {{langx|efi|mbakara}}, meaning "white man, master, boss".<ref name=mason>{{cite journal|last=Mason|first=Julian|title=The Etymology of 'Buckaroo'|journal=American Speech|date=February 1960|volume=35|issue=1|pages=51–55|jstor=453613|publisher=Duke University Press|doi=10.2307/453613}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Although that derivation was later rejected, another possibility advanced was that "buckaroo" was a [[pun]] on ''vaquero'', blending both Spanish and African sources.<ref name=cassidy1>{{cite journal|last=Cassidy|first=F. G.|title=Another Look at Buckaroo|journal=American Speech|date=Spring 1978|volume=53|issue=1|pages=49–51|doi=10.2307/455339|publisher=Duke University Press|jstor=455339}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=cassidy2/>