Vaquero refers to generally to a "cowboy" but more
specifically to a herdsman or cattleman. The vaqueros of Antonion's father's generation
moved cattle from place to place across the vast open spaces of Texas and the wider
southwest.
The term for those open spaces is "llano",
which means planes.
Antonio's father longs always to
return to the type of freedom he associates with herding cattle across the southwestern
planes. He feels that in movement there is freedom and fulfillment. However, after
seeing his three oldest sons claimed by that desire for movement and freedom - and
losing them to that desire, Gabriel begins to feel differently about these
impulses.
".
. . Every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may
reform the old materials, make something
new."
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