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Recent Examples of cowherdIn Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 The girl and the cowherd are separated by a celestial river, but are able to be together one day a year when a flock of magpies forms a bridge over it.—Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Caterina was foisted off on a cowherd in a neighboring village, while Ser Piero married into a wealthy family.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023 In Rushdie’s vision, the city of Vijayanagar — the name means Victory City — is a place of magic and miracles that owes its existence to its creator, the poet Kampana, who blesses seeds and gives them to the cowherd brothers.—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023 Its name honored one of the first Old English poets, a 7th century cowherd who was said to have waked up from a dream with the gift of verse and song.—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023 Around us, the valley slopes seem to touch the sky, covered in the Alpine forests where Hans Binder, the family patriarch and Natalie’s grandfather, had worked as a cowherd and logger to earn the money to buy the family sawmill.—National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020 All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds.—Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2017
Softly came the sound of a Toda herdsman calling to his buffaloes.
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Cyril E. Holland,
Outdoor Life,
8 May 2025
Masud was celebrated as the literary voice of greater Arabia’s nomadic herdsmen—proud sons of the desert, a noble caste of unhurried sybarites not known for their religious orthodoxy.
Tank Adams, is another favorite cowboy out of Oklahoma.
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Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
13 May 2025
South Florida Soul Rodeo 2025: Black cowboy culture and live R&B
Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter Tour is not making a stop in Florida, but people will be partaking in cowboy culture at the South Florida Soul Rodeo this weekend.
Things are also taking a turn for the worse in Texas, where Runs His Horse successfully tracks down the ranch cowhands that interrupted Pete and Teonna’s tryst.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
The term Cowboy became widely popular for the trade and subsequently was whitewashed to then exclude Black cowhands from the history books.
On a small island off the coast of Vietnam, a cow herder paused near a rice field and noticed a brown and yellow creature hidden under the grass.
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Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
While poaching and a loss of natural prey also contribute to the snow leopard’s decline, communities are working to foster peaceful coexistence between herders and wildlife.
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Troy Aidan Sambajon,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2025
With its European architecture, rich textile history and cultural touchstones like the gaucho, there is plenty of inspiration for designers to pull from.
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Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
This is a look from my 2002 graduation collection (above center), which was inspired by traditional gaucho clothing (above left).
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