I found this picture while doing some background research, and I thought it was interesting to see that certain eras and certain desperado type-casts are virtually the same everywhere. If I were to tell you that these fellas were dynamite men (minors) from Telluride in Colorado, you could believe it, if they're out on a sojourn or something.
If I said they were German and French protestants escaping religious persecution in Europe by fleeing to a life of Gaucho in either Mexico or the Patagonian plain, you could buy it.
If I said they were Cossacks from the deep hinterland of the Siberian wilderness after adopting a type of dress seen in the Buffalo Bill Cody's Traveling Wild West Extravaganza, it probably wouldn't shock you.
Nor would the truth, that these guys are Boers, a Dutch term that translates as "farmer". The Boers were the Dutch, French, and German settlers in the Dutch Cape Town Colony that all migrated (trekked) inland, away from the coastal Cape Town, when the British took over control of the outpost. This picture wast taken during the Second Boer War, also known as the Second Boer-Anglo War, since the Boers were fighting against the Brits.
Charlize Theron may be the most famous Boer known in America...her dad's family were German and her mom's French. She's said to prefer the pronunciation of her last name to be more congruent with her native Afrikaans, instead of "ther-own" to be more monosyllabic, "thrown".
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