Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in agriculture or natural resource occupations]

Anotations

Scope note:

Cowboys, or horsemen of the South American pampas, specifically Argentina, as well as Uruguay, Brazil, and Patagonia. Historically, gauchos were migratory horseman of the 18th-19th centuries who engaged in cattle work. They have become folkloric or iconic figures in the same sense as North American cowboys.