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      • "Maverick" doesn't explicitly refer to a cowboy, but a cowboy could absolutely be described as a maverick. The Mavericks associate themselves with typical Texas themes — cowboys and horses — through their logos, even if their name doesn't directly refer to either.
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  2. Nov 3, 2021 · Any cow that was unbranded was a maverick. But what fewer people know is that the original herd of unbranded cattle that launched the expression was owned by a man named Samuel Maverick. Those unbranded cows were Maverick’s cows. That is how the term came about.

  3. Sep 5, 2008 · His great-grandson lives in Los Angeles. A self-described "city-slicker," Andrew Maverick likes hearing tales of his great grandfather — and those unbranded calves that roamed freely in Texas.

  4. Aug 21, 2023 · Unbranded cattle of landholder Samuel A. Maverick began spreading in the 1840s across the South Texas range, where they were known as “Maverick’s.” The term was later picked up by cowboys moving cattle north up the Chisholm Trail and soon after the Civil War had spread into the English language.

  5. Jun 6, 2015 · Early in the 1800s, a man named Samuel Augustus Maverick moved to Texas from the eastern United States. Texas was a place of wide-open land, rich soil, cattle ranches and cowboys. Actually,...

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  6. Yes, it can include all animals, but to use a horse and say it's a maverick as if that's a type of horse is deceiving the term's usage historically. Most of the time, based on what I have been reading, maverick referred to unbranded cattle in the wild west, which is when the term originated.

  7. Jul 26, 2018 · The cattle wandered, unbranded, and in time, as stories traveled by wordof- mouth through cow camps and saloons, and as accounts appeared in newspapers and sources like Charles Siringo’s 1885 book, A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, such an animal became known as a “maverick.”.

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