Cowboys borrowed their dress, skill sets, and tools from which of the following cultures?
a. anglo and hispanic cultures
b. asian cultures
c. scandinavian cultures
d. arctic cultures

The correct answer is A. Cowboys borrowed their dress, skill sets, and tools from Anglo and Hispanic cultures.

Explanation:

A cowboy is a man responsible for tasks related to livestock in the western United States, specifically in the states of Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah; and also in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada. His figure acquired transcendence in the second half of the nineteenth century with the emergence of cattle routes from Texas and Chihuahua to the north of the United States after the Civil War, when the transport of animals by land required riders of great skill and resistance.

His lifestyle and work was inherited from the Mexicans who lived in the current Texan territory and their raising of cattle introduced by the Spaniards since the sixteenth century. To this was added notorious Anglo-Saxon cultural references from the traditional states of the American East, thus forming an particular image and a unique idiosyncrasy, combining Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon elements.