Gauchos and Their Knives

[Chris Evans]

Originally Posted by fernando

Hi Chris,


Was it not Brazil?

Amazing. I allways suspected that the portuguese lingo contributed for the semanthics of one or two terms relative to this subject; this article confirms that, actually in a sense wider than i thought.
Good stuff.
Fernando

Hi Fernando,

He started his South American fighting career in Brazil and then moved to Uruguay where he distinguished himself, amongst other things, as as a military leader of renown, before returning to his native Italy and taking up its cause. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibaldi

He was quite a soldier!


As a aside, I believe that anyone who tries to better understand the gaucho culture and by extension their knives, and thus move beyond current popular platitudes, ought to read Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier by R.W.Slatta and as well, the great classic Facundo by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (in English)

Cheers
Chris