GAUCHOS IN LONDON.
Those who are arranging the sights of interest at the Earl's Court Exhibition have added another feature of interest, and one which attracted notice in the West-end yesterday, where was paraded a coachful of melancholy-looking men belonging to the Gauchos race. They are the famous and fearless riders of the wide-stretching Pampas, and all readers of Darwin will remember his vivid pictures of them "at home." In features they are a compound of the Indian and the Spaniard, and are said to combine, with a disregard of money, the inveterate love of tobacco. Each member of this strange-looking troupe wore a cloak with a large knife in his girdle. The party seemed the objects of much attention.
Title: Gauchos in London
Periodical: Echo
Source: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Collection, MS6, MS6.3778.050.05 (1892 London)
Date: June 11, 1892
Topics: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain
Keywords: Clothing and dress Ethnic costume Exhibitions Gauchos Historical reenactments Horsemen Indians of South America Scrapbooks Spaniards Tobacco Traveling exhibitions
People: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Places: Earl's Court (London, England) London (England) Pampas (Argentina)
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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