Musical Accompaniment: Dust My Broom by Elmore James. One of the great underrated bluesmen.

I didn’t realize there was such a thing as Hawaiian cowboys! What a wonderful thing to discover!

Of course cattle weren’t native to the islands. Per the National Archives, cattle were introduced to Hawaii in 1793. In 1832 King Kamehameha III brought three Hispanic “vaqueros” from California to the islands to train Hawaiians to handle horses and cattle. Hawaiian cowboys, or “paniolos,” were soon riding the range much like their mainland counterparts.

This picture was taken by H.R. Hanna in 1899:

NARA.gov