| Many landowners believed that gauchos were ill-suited for agricultural labor and favored the hiring of foreigners. |
| More sedate visitors will enjoy poring over family treasures, such as old photos and maps, watching gauchos at work, or reading a book under the austral summer's midnight sun. |
| They are blessed with speed, agility and a very pleasing nature and broken in by the old and traditional way of the herdsmen, the gauchos. |
| The gauchos of Argentina wore chaps that hardened from the foam and sweat of the horse's body, causing them to walk with flexed knees. |
| But the new riders are lonely gauchos from Chile and Peru, and their 21 st-century frontier is a place where the cowboy myth meets a harsh reality. |
| The original gauchos were an equestrian ethnic group similar to North American cowboys and Ukrainian Cossacks. |
