WEB History

In the book, Atlas of Dog Breeds of the World, by Bonnie Wilcox, DVM and Chris Walkowicz, it explains,

"During the European Renaissance, the Great Butcher Dog was common. This more placid mastiff helped drive cattle to market, guarding the livestock as well as the owners, and often carrying the sales money home around his neck! Few highwaymen challenged such a beast. Also employed as the serf's "horse" in carting and hauling, the dog with a more mellow temperament was desired. This dog had less loose skin, but the same square, bulky, muscular body, and his tail was sometimes docked."

The Spanish Gauchos of Argintina originated as nomadic herdsmen of cattle.

"Gone are the old-time gauchoes, nomadic herdsmen who roamed the grassy plains."
National Geographic, March, 1958

The Spanish Crackers of Florida originated as nomadic herdsmen of cattle.

April 10, 1883, the New York Daily Tribune includes a telegraphed story datelined KISSIMMEE CITY, Fla, from its reporter traveling on President Chester Authur's private train. "White civilization ends here," the New York reporter wrote of what a few years later became the county seat of Osceola County. "The lower part of the state being in possession of a cowboy race known as Crackers, who herd cattle extensively over the prairie lands, and a remnant of a race of Seminole Indians who hunt, fish and raise crops in the Everglades."

Even the Alans originated as nomadic herdsmen of the vast grasslands of Eurasia.
It is documented that the "Rise of nomad tribes, herdsmen, in country east of Danube," began sometime in the Late Stone Age, of about 10000B.C.
The Lincoln Library, 1966

Form follows Function