{"id":9403,"date":"2013-07-14T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2013-07-19T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T19:22:45","slug":"who-knew-the-calgary-stampede-was-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/who-knew-the-calgary-stampede-was-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew the Calgary Stampede Was Spanish?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau & Julie Barlow<\/h5>\n

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\n\"Calgary-Stampede\"<\/a>Spanish might be the last thing people in Calgary, Alberta, were thinking of while they celebrated their annual Stampede. Yet most of the vocabulary of ranching culture actually comes from Spanish. The word \u201cstampede\u201d itself is an Anglicization of the Spanish estampida \u00a0<\/i>(which means \u201csuddenly,\u201d or \u201cin a rush\u201d). Some ranching vocabulary is recognizably Spanish, like lasso, rodeo, bronco, and pinto. Other terms are less obvious, but Spanish nevertheless, like mustang, which come from meste\u00f1o <\/i>(\u201cwild,\u201d or \u201cuntamed\u201d), buckaroo, from vaquero <\/i>(cowboy), chaps from chaparreras <\/i>and jacket, from chaqueta<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The reason for the Spanish influence? Ranching itself comes from Spain. It started in the Middle Ages, when Castilians, Basques, Galicians, Aragonese and Leonese began free-range sheep and cattle grazing. At one point Spain organized these territories under an owners\u2019 guild called a mesta<\/i>. When Spain started colonizing the Americas, it implanted ranching techniques in the Americas, where they took root and developed.<\/p>\n

Both the lasso and the cowboy saddle were developed in 16th\u00a0century Mexico. Ranching arrived in what is today\u2019s U.S. Southwest after Juan de O\u00f1ate, the \u201clast conquistador,\u201d forded the R\u00edo Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) at El Paso, and opened all the northern territory as Nuevo Mexico for settlement.<\/p>\n

Centuries later, when Americans arrived in Texas, they discovered a totally unfamiliar mode of agriculture. Free-range cattle raising simply didn\u2019t exist in the East,\u00a0where farmers raised small herds behind fences on mid-size farms. The Texas Longhorn itself was a new brand of cattle, a mix of two or three varieties of Andalusian cows. <\/b><\/p>\n

When the conquest of the west was over at the end of the 19th\u00a0century, cowboys moved north to Canada, and brought ranching culture with them.\u00a0Incidentally, the \u201cten-gallon hats\u201d that many Albertans sport at the Stampede comes from the Spanish term\u00a0tan gal\u00e1n<\/i>, meaning \u201chow nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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