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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
Buhari’s first term was characterized by war on many fronts, including the Boko Haram insurgency, the secessionist pro-Biafra movement in the east of Nigeria and rampaging Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria.
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Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
Its official designation stems from the simple fact that its radiant — the point from which its meteors appear to approach Earth — is situated in the constellation Bootes, the herdsman, which can be found above the western horizon in late June.
Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates Clint Eastwood portrayed Rowdy Yates, the young cowhand who eventually matures into a leader.
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Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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.
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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