A little Hawaiian history....
Did you know that cowboys were living and working in Hawai‘i before there were cowboys in many Western Territories of the U.S.?
Around 1830 King Kamehameha III gave a royal invitation to three Mexicans from Spanish California to come and train Hawaiians in horsemanship, cattle breeding and to help establish the Hawaiian cattle industry. The Hawaiian-ized version of Espaniolo, or Spaniard, became “paniolo” as these cowboys are still known today.
