User blog comment:ANAT0LY LANB3RY/Civil War?/@comment-3574283-20110304062731/@comment-4056659-20111029163011

"The word "cowboy" appeared in the English language by 1725.[3] It appears to be a direct English translation of vaquero, a Spanish word for an individual who managed cattle while mounted on horseback. Originally, the term may have been intended literally—"a boy who tends cows." By 1849 it had developed its modern sense as an adult cattle handler of the American West. Variations on the word "cowboy" appeared later. "Cowhand" appeared in 1852, and "cowpoke" in 1881, originally restricted to the individuals who prodded cattle with long poles to load them onto railroad cars for shipping." i would say there were cowboys in the civil war.i think a game like that would be pretty cool, not as a newer part of RDR but a NEW game.