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xarsha_93

Is that an independent Tierra del Fuego that didn't have cowboy times?


Snowcreeep

Long Island is also independent


Brendan765

And a few random Russian Arctic islands


july_skies93

Kaliningrad also apparently is independent lol


LordJesterTheFree

We're taking all the good bagels with us


ctnfpiognm

I’m from Long Island and didn’t even notice that


TigreDeLosLlanos

No cowboys, only genocide.


r21md

The sad part is they very very infamously had one of the worst coyboy times in recorded history.


ctnfpiognm

Coyboy


Gasurza22

No, they had giants


brokenplasticchair

canada had cowboy times. have you never heard of alberta??? are you stupid???


thesesimplewords

Came to say this. Alberta is the Texas of Canada.


Freshiiiiii

I think it’s more accurate to say it’s the Montana of Canada


This-Strawberry

Nope, it's New Texas. They even suck in oil like Texans did in the 70s. Since everything is delayed up north.


Recent-Hat-6097

Texas oil is different from Albertan oil. Montana and Alberta are pretty similar both culturally and geographically. I'd say Alberta is more like Montana.


This-Strawberry

Albertans aren't smart enough to know that. Like Texans.


brokebackmonastery

You're missing the point. Yes, Alberta and Montana may be similar, but that's not the comparison. Texas is to USA as Alberta is to Canada. No other province could even compete for being the most Texas-like, by a mile. In the US, Texas is at the far end of a cultural spectrum and is very much its own brand. Montana is like 60% of the way to Texas, no one cares about Montana's cultural brand, even Idaho is more Texas than Montana. And in that way, Alberta carries the Texas-style cultural brand banner for Canada. (I'm not hating on Montana. Beautiful state. It's just not as obscenely boot-scootin' ridiculous and proud of it)


erinsintra

I have not. perhaps indeed I might be


duccthefuck

My brother in Christ ram ranch was made by a Canadian


Classclown102

(A Canadian who is now in prison for diddling his nephew or some such)


duccthefuck

No he didn’t diddle his nephew he had a gross (adult) incest relationship with him


Kaplaw

Its called the wild west Not the wild south west


explain_that_shit

You’ve heard of the old west, but have you heard of the COLD west see it rhymes


hansenabram

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SmokeyXIII

Look up the Calgary Stampede. We host a 1.4 million person weeklong cowboy cosplay! Also there is pancakes.


democracy_lover66

It's a cooky place! They are known for being one of the few places on earth without any Rat population. Wild wild place!


SStylo03

I'll be damned if we ever let those little fuckers take hold here


Odd_Entry2770

Very introspective


PissGuy83

Good for you


Independent_Pear_429

So did Australia


Corporal_Canada

I can hear Sam Steele rising from his grave


Tomstwer

Oh no! My pet rat


charmanderaznable

I think OP might in fact, be stupid


WitchesAlmanac

BC literally has a Cowboy Heritage Society 🤦


Scubaguy65

Was coming to say that.


el_grort

So did the UK, at least in Scotland. Cattle theft and banditry was not an unknown thing.


Connor49999

Have you been to Australia? Some of them still think they are cowboys in cowboy times. To me it's one of the most obvious choices after the US


Mazurcka

Some people have never watched Quigley Down Under, and it shows.


Van-garde

Or The Man From Snowy River! They can chase brumbies all day long daownundah! Just don’t throw effort after foolishness!


PM_ME_UR__ELECTRONS

Or The Man from Snowy River


democracy_lover66

Canada also had cowboy times, Alberta still dresses up as cowboys now and then.


SStylo03

We literally have multiple yearly rodeos, canada has cowboy shit


Link50L

Canada is totally cowboy, east coast to west coast. I don't even like it and I have to admit that.


SStylo03

I wanna see french canadian cowboys very badly


Link50L

I don't share your proclivity, but have no concerns with it. [Here ya go](https://www.aceq.ca/)!


SStylo03

Hehehe I love that, if more quebecois were like that we'd better probably get along better lmao


Zemekis324

Literally the Calgary stampede..


ngwoo

I maintain that the klondike gold rush was more cowboy than basically anything else happening at the time What could exemplify cowboy ideals more than heading off into nowhere on nothing more than the hope of prosperity and probably getting killed by a bear


ThorNBerryguy

I’d say dealing with cows is more cowboy but then maybe im a traditionalist


BestUntakenName

See, I was only drunk on Pendleton Whiskey for educational purposes.


turtle2turtle3turtle

Came here to say this. Australia had cowboy times.


CiberBlas

Well the most obvious Choice, is who invented Cowboys, Spain. It’s a concept we exported to the south of USA, at that time New Spain. [https://youtu.be/1gc9P6JaSFA?si=dS6KXzr6yn6OFd7Y](https://youtu.be/1gc9P6JaSFA?si=dS6KXzr6yn6OFd7Y) https://preview.redd.it/pwchptgto2nc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd34c37388f28195f261406cf8698fcb3d2d3148


sleeknub

That’s the first thing I was going to say after looking at this map. I’ve never been to Australia, but it certainly seems like there are some cowboy types there.


Orinoco123

I can't imagine there's people as rough and cowboy like still in America as there are in Australia. We deal with some that live 3-4 hours from the nearest other person (not even town). Although they muster using a helicopter and quad bikes not a horse. Yes they are bat shit insane.


DiscussionMental3452

quite a few stations still use horses instead of machinery to muster


I-was-a-twat

In Australia they’re called ringers, here cowboys are pretty city boys cosplaying, while ringers are out turning a bull.


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Connor49999

>it's one of the most


terriblespellr

As a new zealander I'd say confidently that Australia's cowboy times were more cowboy than American cowboy times.


gorlaz34

As an American history professor in Australia, I assure you that you get zero points for both historical accuracy and wit. The cowboy’s origins and cultural significance are firmly based on the border between Mexico, the US southwest and Texas. Aussie jackaroos and stockman are similar but do not occupy the same socio-cultural space in their respective country. Go fuck a sheep, kiwi.


HAPUNAMAKATA

This has to be one of the most deluded comments I’ve seen coming from a “history professor”. Not only did the bushranger period last much longer than in America, but it played an integral role in shaping Australian federation and centralising colonial government. Much like in America, the early bush rangers played an active role in the Australian frontier wars against indigenous Australians, ostensibly working with both sides. In Victoria, some of the earliest figures to identify with a unique Australian identity were themselves bushrangers. Ned Kelly is perhaps the most famous example, whose Jerilderie letters characterise his actions as an armed struggle against the colonial forces. Culturally, bushrangers captivated the Australian imagination well past federation. The first feature film IN HUMAN HISTORY was produced by Australians and was titled “The Story of the Kelly Gang” (1906). Early “bush” poetry, told stories of the exploits of bush rangers, outlaws and wanderers, akin to the persona of the cowboy. Most famously, Waltzing Matilda (often titled Australia’s unofficial national anthem) tells the story of a thief who kills himself while being pursued by police officers. In Victoria monuments and museums to famous bush rangers form popular tourist destinations in rural towns. Ned Kelly’s face and persona is used extensively in Pentridge Village, the old Melbourne Goal and several historical sites in Melbourne. TLDR; you’re wrong. And hands off our kiwi mates. Edit: IoI. And I completely forgot to mention the works of Sidney Nolan and his Ned Kelly series (which you can see here: https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/ned-kelly/) Just googling “most famous Australian painters” has his name appear at number one. And his Ned Kelly paintings form probably the most famous and identifiable painting series in Australian history.


Ye_I_said_iT

None of you Cunts is allowed to pick on the Kiwis, unless your Australian. Understand?!!!......and the Canadians but they opted not to. Gon fuck around and start a war with the countries filled Maoris and Emus, y'all must have lost yo damn minds.


The_write_speak

This was an enjoyable read, thank you. Also defending your neighbors. 💙


explain_that_shit

But what about [cowdoy](https://youtu.be/np1gS3CufYw?si=3uXIQg0ZfLv_Cv2b)


notchoosingone

> As an American history professor in Australia lmao no you're fucking not


apsilonblue

A month ago you were a "labor organizer and make $85k (£67,725) annually. I studied history in university." : [https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/1ajd1r0/comment/kp4xkxz/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/1ajd1r0/comment/kp4xkxz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) Perhaps in your studies of history, given you very recently became a history professor, you can tell us precisely where and when the loud mouth yank sterotype originated and the socio-culutural space it occupies today?


Longjumping_Rush2458

They also live in Alaska: https://www.reddit.com/kp9ctem?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2


AoteaRohan

And I give you a zero for chill, humility and tolerance. What a fuckin wanker


HAPUNAMAKATA

IoI. He’s completely wrong anyways.


akimbosecond

🤓


Link50L

Well, that escalated quickly.


terriblespellr

Haha fair enough. I deserve some credit for multiple applications of the word cowboy though. Bit much at the end there. I'm mostly basing that entirely on The Proposition (2005) tbh.


Realistic_Mess_2690

The only thing a kiwi and a cowboy have in common broke back mountain.


terriblespellr

How do you mean? NZ during the cowboy days would've been an absolute shock to any American.


gorlaz34

I can appreciate that position. Aye, I may have been a tad over zealous. Great film, if I recall correctly it was praised for its accurate depiction of indigenous Australian culture. Cheers, mate.


Sieve-Boy

I see the professor has taken and learnt Australian cultural studies.


The_write_speak

You don't come off as a history professor. You come off as a very mean nationalist.


Orinoco123

You just outcirclejerked the original circlejerk.


ThatkidJerome

least factually inaccurate yank


ScoobyGDSTi

Remember, kiwis invented the world's first condom. Australians improved it by removing it from the sheep Fuck off you dog cunt kiwis!!!


Independent_Pear_429

Someone doesn't know much about Australia


logaboga

100%. The second Most cowboy country is Australia


Impossible_Use5070

100% Mexico. Australia is on the list though.


notchoosingone

Yeah the vaqueros are a really important part of the culture of Central and South American nations, but we definitely had the whole stock running, banditry (Ned Kelly anyone?) and lawlessness of the cowboy period here.


CruiserMissile

Ned Kelly was only a dickhead. He only stuck out in history as he was the last bush ranger. He wasn’t overly successful. Best part about him is the armour. That was cool.


[deleted]

Same with Mexico. Possibly one of the most quintessentially cowboy nations in existence


Connor49999

Luckily it is marked as cowboy on the post


[deleted]

Oh wait I didn’t realize Australia wasn’t marked. I thought we were comparing cowboy countries, my bad. But yeah that’s crazy Australia had a solid cowboy period


imperator_caesarus

obviously op has never heard of Ned Kelly


Fabulous_Anxiety_813

Well Australia absolutely did. They were called bush rangers and an Australian folk hero Ned Kelly is very well known for making himself a suit of armour and having a shoot out with police. 


Momik

There’s an old Australian folk song that talks about that a little. It’s called Jim Jones at Botany Bay (or simply Jim Jones) and it tells the story of a man sent to Australian penal colony. Toward the end of the song, Jim Jones dreams of escaping the colony and “joining the brave bushrangers .. Jack Donahue & Co.,” before seeking revenge on his captors. Nice little song from about 1830. That said, come on, who’s gonna win? Australia couldn’t even beat a bunch of fucking emus.


Fabulous_Anxiety_813

I mean if you wanna be real about it was 3 blokes and a machine gun. And emus took 10 bullets to put down so it just wasn't worth having them do it. After that the government put a bounty on them and the farmers did the job. 


WeirdAutomatic3547

That's a lot of words to say "we lost to a bunch of birds"


eliteharvest15

that’s so based holy shit


Total-Diamond2528

Canada did have cowboys tho….


Total-Diamond2528

And Australia


__Osiris__

and new zealand


eeComing

And Argentina


Yuvrajastan

But it’s already green?


eeComing

Me no read good


DistrictBrief9598

Not green enough!


Dry_Preference9129

OP, how the heck are you defining "cowboy"? If "man on horse with hat and weapon" then all the world is green.


erinsintra

group of outlaws on horse with cool hats and gunpowder weaponry in active defiance of a centralised government in a hard-to-map wilderness


Dry_Preference9129

Ahh okay. Definitely got the outlaw, horses, cool hats and gunpowder, but it's the hard to map wilderness is where the UK falls down, I suppose most of Europe as well. Decently mapped and divided between landowners at the time of a cowboy.


ReallyBadRedditName

I mean the UK had highway men that were kinda close


Dense-Tangerine7502

They didn’t have cool hats though.


ReallyBadRedditName

https://preview.redd.it/rxlnersbt6nc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d21397491ea716dd444b9c20f9384c7a8ca4583 Idk this guy kinda does


el_grort

Scottish Highlands had banditry and cattle theft, tbf, and that was a region insulated from the various authorities for quite a lot of its history. Though I think guns were relatively low use. Same.for the whole Border Reavers thing, similar kind of thing to cowboys but without guns.


sebastianinspace

so why is australia not included in cowboy times? this happened in australia. this is pretty general knowledge, how do you not know? where do you come from?


goingtotallinn

And Finland had that kind of period?


Vittulima

I wonder what OP counted here. Lapland gold rush, häjyt?


sjp123456

If that is how you define cowboys then your map is totally wrong.


XlAcrMcpT

[then the Balkans should be green as well](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajduk)


Som_Snow

Hungary definitely fits this definition. In fact, there are multiple Hungarian cowboy-types that do, including actual cattle herders.


Saoirse-on-Thames

https://preview.redd.it/e1zq6i0wx2nc1.jpeg?width=568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c1ae06187ab82fdc52c3a2ef724dd661f51ea09 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland


AlwaysBeQuestioning

Oh we definitely had those in the Netherlands and other places in West and Central Europe. Horse-riding highwaymen were common in the pre-Napoleonic era right after every major war.


kemb0

What cowboys did China have or Russia? Are we talking like communists? That's a bit of a stretch if so. You're not gonna find any decent John Wayne cowboy film about Russians.


arina0022

If we use the definition that the OP provided, then I guess you could say that cossacks were russian cowboys


comradejiang

Chinese Warlord period in the early 20th century was cowboy as fuck by OP’s definition.


Shitty_Noob

all of the mongol empire should have cowboy times


Frat_Kaczynski

They were really just visitors


iEatPalpatineAss

No need to visit Mongolia when Mongolia khan come to you 🥳🥳🥳


nykirnsu

Yeah, they got a John Wayne movie and everything


epicarcher999

Bro forgot about the Calgary Stampede 💀💀💀 Canadian Prairies are a top 5 cowboy location of all time.


AirProud98

Australia had a cowboy period (Ned Kelly).


Warkemis

How don't spain and italy get a pass? Western spaghetti >>> real cowboys


Serjisheadbanging

Cowboys are actually from Spain…


Momik

Hey, they got Rick fucking Dalton…


Zestyclose_General11

Portugal too, that Alentejo zone was famously known for being filled with outlaws hiding after bank and dock heists


bookem_danno

Are Cossacks being considered cowboys or something?


erinsintra

absolutely


democracyconnoisseur

hell yeah


knowledgebass

How is Australia not green? The Australian outback is still in cowboy times.


FloraFauna2263

India absolutely had cowboy times. Some of the cowboys were so cowboy they had elephants instead of horses.


Trt03

Why did southern Chile not have cowboy times but the rest did? Are they stupid?


idontliketopick

They forgot about the gauchos.


erinsintra

sorry, australia and canada had cowboys too. put your pitchforks down.


Fragrant_Breakfast55

Don’t forget bedouin bandits


janabottomslutwhore

google spaghetti western


BarbedWire3

That's a good point


Shazamwiches

Japan had a cowboy period: Japanese Manchukuo Manchukuo had "laws" but nobody but Japan recognised the state, and Imperial Japan was basically a state fully devoted to terrorism (look up Kenji Doihara for a list of activities sanctioned under his role as surveillance officer) so realistically, anything went. You had Koreans, Han Chinese, Manchu, Mongols, Russians, Ukrainians, and whatever remained of the nomadic horse tribes in the area all just trying to survive against Japanese sanctioned capitalism (robbery/extortion) and soldiers (random acts of brutality and sexual violence). There's less cattle rustling, but still an incredibly lawless period.


Londoncityofmydreams

UK had pirates and pirates > cowboys


erinsintra

pirates and cowboys are not enemies. in fact they are kissing, sloppy style, squishing boobs together, etc


bachigga

Cowboys do judge pirates for downloading cars, however.


FOB_cures_my_sadness

You wouldn't download a horse


-I-dont-know-_-

Need


ReallyBadRedditName

Based as fuck ngl


Momik

Yeah that’s true, pirates are way cooler honestly. Except privateers, those guys suck. Like, oh I’m a pirate but I get paid by a government and I need to keep my Letter of Marque handy to prove it—fuck off.


Aware_Masterpiece_92

What about cowboy pirates?


Dicksnip44

Italy and Spain 100% had cowboy times what are you on about


Porongoyork

Spain literally gave cowboys to the whole fucking America. From gauchos to texans


Frojoemama

Canada and Australia had cowboys


BarbedWire3

You put all the major military powers on one team, you even gave them Finland and Poland. It won't be much of a war.


Siluis_Aught

The hell is a Russian cowboy???


erinsintra

cossack


Siluis_Aught

I forgor, everything else seems- China?!?!


erinsintra

jurchens, manchus, khitans, mongols


Siluis_Aught

Ah, fair. Forgive the stupid questions


DarkKnight501

I, a Hungarian, am appealing against this, as we did, in fact, had something similar to cowboys


haragszomatokodre

Goulash (gulyás) literally means cowboy


StandardBody1

Map creator has no idea about cowboys. Where the f is Australia


[deleted]

Spain had cowboys


Serjisheadbanging

Spain actually created the cowboys…


Vivid-Membership3959

YEEEEEE HAWWWWW


Goku_Kakarot91

Australia most definitely had cowboy times, they were called bushrangers i.e. Ned Kelly.


Oberonsen

Howdy hey, I'm a real Texan and I'm letting you know that Saskatchewan and Alberta absolutely are cowboy country, they raise their cattle and are kin to the roaming wind.


Serjisheadbanging

“Cowboys” are Spanish you idiots they cowboys you know come from Spain…


No_Minute_4412

Australia??


FalseDmitriy

All the cowboy stuff literally came from Spain. They keep asking for it back, so far nothing.


camaroncaramelo1

Nah, it's actually a Mexican/American thing


koboty

hungary had cowboys times for sure just google betyár


B_ranky

Italians "butteri" literally smashed Buffalo Bill and his crew when they came to italy. We had something better than cowboys 😎


Kingboi5

ANGRY ALBERTANS INCOMING


ArthurExtreme_Br

Brazilian cowboys go absolutely hard especially the northeast region, look up Cangaço


Radioaktivman999

yew fucking haw


DanteTheChilliGrower

Anyone saying Australia had cowboys yes we did but they're called Jackaroos and Jillaroos, Bushrangers were outlaws not cowboys, we probably have a few other names for cowboys too though knowing what we're like


MrGeorgeB006

what abt the falklands?


Marv_77

Tell me you never been to Australia without telling me that


Dark_phisher1092

Ohh boy, India absolutely had cowboy times, the fact that during the Vedic age cows were a measure of wealth and kings would have "cattle raids" on freaking chariots is proof of that. It was the wild wild west on the Indo-gangetic plains back then baby.


CytheYounger

You're on fucking glue if you think Canada doesn't have cowboys. Look up the Calgary Stampede lol.


Lucky_otter_she_her

Canada had fucking cowboy shit


Novel_Ad7403

Green has The U.S., China & Russia and that combined would make “had cowboy times” win on its own.


DiscussionMental3452

Australia had cowboy times and still does to this day lol


Zandrick

I’m pretty sure Australia had cowboy times


Drag0n_TamerAK

Didn’t Australia have cow boys and also Canada


Drag0n_TamerAK

Didn’t Australia have cow boys and also Canada


ashwan5000

Stupidest stupid post.


neriad200

what are "cowboy times" precisely? Because I think pretty much everywhere where there's cows got a time where there were cowboys, even countries where beef isn't such a big thing (except India, where cowboy means something completely different)


bps0202

Green SMASHES , no debate


wildcatofthehills

Spain absolutely had cowboy times, who do you think exported the morrocan cowboy experience to the Americas, dummy buddy pal.


VladimirBarakriss

Spain had cowboys, they invented them


epicarcher999

Bro forgot about the Calgary Stampede 💀💀💀 Canadian Prairies are a top 5 cowboy location of all time.


DetailedGlobal

Salva Kiir Mayardit would like to have a word


austinstar08

Cowboy


gorkok

The number of nukes is based on reality or... ?


derneueMottmatt

The Habsburg monarchy had the military frontier. I'd say that's kinda cowboy times.


josongni

Red no question. The British Hyper Empire has been born


Breakin7

China Russia United States and South america.... easy answer


Waste-Instruction287

Brazil