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Martín Fierro
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Martín Fierro

Influential Argentine epic poem written 1872–79 by José Hernández (1834–1886). Romantic and occasionally satirical, it describes the life of the gaucho or nomadic cattleman on the pampas just as his way of life was becoming extinct.
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Here, the term refers not only to the wandering cowboy outlaws made famous by the epic poem Martin Fierro, but also to all low-ranking members of rural society, including peasant farmers.
Children of Facundo. Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the ... by Rock, David / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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