In El Gaucho Martin Fierro by José Hernández, the protagonist becomes an outlaw when he kills a man in a bar fight, and he decides to go and live with the natives in hope of finding a better life. This story is now considered by many scholars to be a masterpiece of world literature, but Fierro is only a fictional outlaw. In this article we are going to take a look at some of the more well-known and real outlaws that plagued the Wild West.

Martin Fierro, in Liliana Romero and Norman Ruiz’s animated film, is a gaucho, which is what the South Americans call a cowboy. Cowboys had to be hardy people and had to have plenty of skills to survive as there were few resources and little food. Cowboys back in the day often had a reputation for being bad people but they were not bad, they were just survivors. If you are fascinated by cowboys, then you are going to want to keep reading as we take a closer look at the life of a cowboy.

Fierro, also called Martin Fierro: La Pelicula is an animated film that was directed by Norman Ruiz and Liliana Romero. Not many people will have heard of this film, but it is a movie that everyone should watch if they have some spare time. It was released back in 2007 and is based on the epic poem Martin Fierro, which was created by Jose Hernandez over a seven-year period. The Plot Martin Fierro, a skilled Gaucho (horseman), lives a very simple life with his family on a ranch in the Argentine Pampa.

Don’t be fooled by the deep and meaningful title, I haven’t a clue where I’m going with this but then, this is why you have come back to my blog on the subject of Fierro, which is an odd interest from someone given this is based on an Argentinian character and being an American reader, you may not even know where Argentina is (Europe, by the way). So, as a recap of what the story, poem and film is about, set in the 1800s, a rebellious gaucho, which is a cowboy, couldn’t fit into the societies around him during a time that Argentina was going through political change.