AOC yet again demonstrates her abysmal ignorance. Spanish Vaqueros were cowboys. Horses, along with camels, vacated North America over the Bering land bridge after having evolved here from the Miocene epoch. 1514 horses re-imported via Spanish conquistadores. Inevitably some escaped. Vance has history right. The iconic symbols, beavers and bison, traveled the opposite direction over the land bridge, relative newcomers to America.