An American frontier archetype discussed alongside similar Latin American figures like vaqueros, charros, gauchos, and llaneros, all tied to settler colonialism and frontier domestication.
"You have the cowboys and vaqueros/charros up north while down south you have the Guacho, llanero and Morochuco. There's a large element of settler colonialism and the "domestication of the frontier" wrapped up in these figures obviously but I've always thought it was interesting."